Any volunteer contributor can start a translation, as long as he or she creates an account and fills in the following details: last name, first name, affiliation and email address. There is free of charge. A contributor may submit as many translation projects as he or she wishes (one per article).
Any breach of the law relating to defamation, copyright infringement or plagiarism will result in the immediate deletion of the translation proposal, and the suspension of the user's account.
The Editor may contact the contributor via the e-mail address provided when the account was created.
Any volunteer contributor can return to their translation as long as it hasn’t been validated.
They must be sure to save their translation using the [Save] button and can log out.
When you log in to edit the project, you will be taken to a dashboard showing all the translations you have started.
You can ask the Publisher to remove the translation by sending a message to the Contact email address. The Publisher will assess the relevance of the request.
You can cancel a translation in progress by sending a message to the Contact email address.
Please note that any translation project that has been started will be automatically deleted after 3 months if no changes have been made, and that the total duration of your translation project shall not exceed 6 months.
It is possible to create a translation project with multiple contributors.
However, these contributors will be able to access the project through a single shared account, which will have been created by the contributor who started the translation.
All contributors will be held scientifically responsible for the translation and its content, unless scientific moderation has been provided by the Publisher.
All translations are distributed under the CC BY licence, which allows the user to share, copy, reproduce, distribute and disseminate the original work, even for commercial purposes provided that the author is properly credited (BY) and that the user indicates whether the publication has been modified.
The translation will only be published if the contributor has ticked the box validating the distribution licence.