Open access policies
Open access (OA) has become an important way to make research findings freely available for anyone to access and view. Open access serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. We support and promote all forms of OA that are financially sustainable. Our introduction to open access page provides some essential information about the types of OA we offer.
We publish Gold OA journals and books, and we work with publishing partners such as learned societies to develop OA for different communities. We also support Green OA across our journals and books programmes, allowing authors to deposit content in PubMed Central, other institutional and subject-specific repositories, and commercial social sharing sites. Open access allows authors to comply with the Gold and Green OA requirements of major funders.
For authors and others
- Gold OA journals, Gold OA books and Gold OA Elements
- Funding options for publishing Gold OA in journals
- Green OA policy for journals
- Green OA policy for books
- Green OA policy for Elements
- Preprint policy for journals