Member Record: ITcon, Journal of Information Technology in Construction
| Title | ITcon, Journal of Information Technology in Construction |
| Class |
Scholar Publisher |
| URL | http://www.itcon.org/ |
| Owner | Official publisher is International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), the editorial board are the governance committee of the journal. |
| Copyright and Licensing | https://www.itcon.org/for-authors |
| Copyright and Licensing Policy | From the beginning of 2009 ITcon has adopted a more explicit copyright policy by using the Creative Commons licence CC-BY for all its full text articles. Creative Commons is a standard license widely used for open content material on the web (music, pictures, films, articles, computer code) which at the same time protects the rights of the author, in particular concerning proper attribution, as it allows free reuse within bounds specified by the particular CC license chosen, thus in our case ensuring the widest possible dissemination of our research results. We don’t require authors to sign any specific written copyright transfer or licensing agreement with ITcon, but assume that authors submitting manuscripts to ITcon agree to use the Creative Common license. |
| Complaint email | https://www.itcon.org/editorial-board |
| Complaint policy | There is no specific policy on complaints. The Editor-in-Chief is the contact point for all issues in regards to ITcon. |
| Publication charge link | https://www.itcon.org/about |
| Publication charge policy | Journal of Information Technology in Construction is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access. |
| OASPA Compliant OA Journals | 1 |
| OA articles approx. number in 12 months |
19 in this journal in 2013 |
| Initiatives | N/A |
| Peer review process | https://www.itcon.org/for-authors |
| Peer review policy | All articles are subject to a single blind review process by at least two reviewers. The review period is usually between 4 and 8 weeks depending on when the article is submitted in the publication process, and when the reviewers are available. Reports from reviewers are anonymised and returned to authors for appropriate action. Articles are also subject to editorial review before the peer review process. It is not uncommon for a member of our editorial team to recommend changes to a submission prior to peer review, especially when submissions do not comply with the Author Guidelines. |