For authors

As an author you have two options of making your work available free of charge to all audiences – in other words Open Access. One is to publish in a peer-reviewed open access journal making your research immediately available to all audiences without subscription. The second option is to publish in a subscription based peer-reviewed journal and self- archiving in an open access repository, often with a quarantine period. Both of these options tend to include an “authors fee” to cover costs. The following segments will outline these options further.

Open Access publishing

As an attempt to make academic research more freely available to all including developing countries a number of peer reviewed open access journals have been established allowing immediate free access to all publications. More...

Publisher regulations for authors

Many journals allow some form of Open Access self-archiving but often have conditions for the release such as a quarantine period, special referencing methods, and author-pays models. More...

Research funder policies

Many funding agencies now require you, the author, to retain copyright and to make your articles available in a repository, usually within 6–12 months of publication. More...