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  • Members of The Japan Society for Lymphoreticular Tissue Research

    Inclusion of "Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hematopathology (JCEH)" in the electronic archives and handling of copyrights

    The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), an independent organization, which has been compiling past important academic journals in the paper medium in an archival form since fiscal 2006, selected "JCEH", the official publication of the Japan Society for Lymphoreticular Tissue Research, to be included in the academic journals for their electronic archives starting in fiscal 2009. Thus "JCEH" from volumes 1 to 44, the latter having been published in 2004, will be in the electronic archives and the public will be able to view the articles on the Internet (It has already been in electronic form since volumes 45).

    Consequently, the need arises to obtain approval from the original authors on the exercise of their copyrights, in particular reproduction rights and rights for public transmission. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to inform all the original authors on this matter and obtain their approval for all the articles going back to the first issue of "JCEH". Facing this situation, we ask for your approval on the exercise of reproduction and other rights by JST through this announcement. The copyrights for the publications of the Japan Society for Lymphoreticular Tissue Research from the initial edition to Volume 44, No. 2 (published in 2004) belonged to the original authors. Therefore we seek approval for this change from the authors of the articles published during this period.

    If any of the authors or those having succession rights to the articles that have been published during the period of electronic archival preparation (as described above) object to this change, please submit your objection in writing to the executive office of the society by January 31, 2009.

    We will arrange to exclude the articles in question from the electronic archives. We hope that you will cooperate in disseminating this information to all those involved.

    Sincerely,

    Mitsunori Yamakawa
    Editor-in-Chief, JCEH

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