Correction to: J Wood Sci (2008) 54:356–361 https://doi.org / https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-008-0963-7

The article Effect of decay on shear performance of dowel-type timber joints, written by Kei Sawata, Takanobu Sasaki, Shuichi Doi and Yasuo Iijima, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 7 June, 2008 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 28 November 2018 to © The Author(s) 2018 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.