Correction to: J Wood Sci (2011) 57:408–414 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-011-1197-7

The article Evaluation of the weathering intensity of wood-based panels under outdoor exposure, written by Yoichi Kojima, Tomoya Shimoda and Shigehiko Suzuki, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 57, issue 5, page 408–414 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2017 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.