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Gold open access

Publishing gold open access means that your final article (version of record) is freely and permanently available online for everyone to read and cite.

How do I choose this option for my article?

If you are submitting to a journal from our gold open access portfolio, you will have to choose this route to publication. However, you can also publish gold open access in any of our hybrid journals. This option is available once your manuscript has been accepted for publication, and a member of our editorial team will assist you.

What is the submission process?

Our submission system remains as easy and stress-free as usual. And the same applies to peer review – our quality standards are identical.

However, if your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will need to choose an open access licence and, in some cases, pay an article processing charge. Many of the journals in our gold open access portfolio are currently waiving APCs (see payments and funding for details). As always, our editorial teams can help you with any submission queries.

Gold step-by-step submission process:

Diamond open access

 Diamond open access is exactly like gold open access, but we cover the article processing charges. This option is available in our flagship journal, Chemical Science. Like gold open access, the final published article (version of record) is made freely and permanently available online.  

How do I choose this option for my article?

Publishing diamond open access is only available in Chemical Science. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, our editorial team will prompt you to select a licence.

Is the submission process any different?

The submission process and fair peer review remain the same as publishing in any of our journals. Our easy-to-use submission system means it’s possible for you to submit your manuscript in less than 20 minutes.

1. Choose to submit to Chemical Science
2. Send us your manuscript
3. Peer review
4. Acceptance – pick an open access licence
5. Share your research

We cover the article processing charges to publish in Chemical Science.

More routes to open access

Hybrid journals

You can choose to publish open access in any of our journals. We have a dedicated portfolio of gold open access journals which only publish in this way. All of our other titles are known as hybrid journals because:

1. You can choose to publish your work open access
2. Or you can choose to publish your work for subscription-only audiences

Open access agreements

A stepping stone to open access.

Our agreements allow you to publish gold open access in our journals without paying an article processing charge (APC), and also give you complete access to our journal library. Our can tell you whether your institution has an open access agreement and which journals are included. See who has signed up.

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Share your work before it’s published.

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Green open access

At the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥, publishing green open access means that your peer reviewed, accepted manuscript may be made freely available via an institutional or discipline-specific repository after a twelve-month embargo period. However, your published work can still be shared and viewed within this period if a reader has a subscription.

What is an embargo period?

An embargo is a period of time when access to published content is temporarily restricted. If you choose to publish an article green open access, we require an embargo before you make your article freely accessible.

At the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥, our standard licence requires an embargo period of twelve months.

During the embargo period:

• your article's version of record is published in one of our journals, where it is available to subscribers
• restrictions apply to how you may distribute other versions of your article.

What happens after the embargo period?

Once the embargo period has passed, your article's version of record remains available to subscribers in the journal where it was published. You may freely distribute the accepted manuscript of your article through your personal website, not-for-profit repositories, and many scholarly communication networks. Read more on how to share your research open access.

Compare your open access routes

This table summarises the differences between diamond, gold and green open access at the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥. The route you choose will affect how you can share your article.