Open Access Publisher Policies
SAGE
Funder
AHRC
BBSRC
EPSRC
ESRC
MRC
NERC
STFC
Wellcome
Recommended Route for Funder
Compliance
Green
Green
Green
Green
Gold
Green
Green
Gold
GREEN
SAGE permits immediate deposit of the Accepted Version of an article on “the repository of your
institution without any restrictions”. This means you can deposit your article on ORA through the Green
Route immediately after your article is accepted.
However, “you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject repository … until 12
months after first publication of the article in the journal”. This includes repositories such as Europe
PubMed Central and the ESRC Research Catalogue.
For researchers funded by ESRC and AHRC, this is within the maximum embargo period required for
compliance with the RCUK Open Access Policy through the Green Route.
For researchers in the Sciences not required to publish in a specific subject repository (BBSRC, EPSRC,
NERC STFC), this is within the maximum embargo period required for compliance with the RCUK Open
Access Policy through the Green Route.
For researchers in the Sciences required to publish in a subject repository such as Europe PubMed Central
(MRC), this exceeds the maximum embargo period of 6 months required for compliance with the RCUK
Open Access Policy. If funding for an Article Processing Charge is available, authors should select the Gold
Route.
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/publishing-oa.htm
GOLD
Authors can publish through the Gold Route:
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In a fully Open Access journal - http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/oa-journals.htm
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In a “hybrid” journal - http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sagechoice.sp
Indicative Article Processing Charge:
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$3,000/£1600 + VAT in Science, Technology and Medical fields
$1,500/£800 + VAT in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
A full list of participating titles with details of APCs can be found at:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE-Choice-Participating-Title-List.pdf
COPYRIGHT
“For articles in the SAGE Choice program, you will retain copyright of the article. SAGE will publish your
article under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC BY-NC) which allows others to
re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is noncommercial. Authors required to publish under a CC BY licensing funder mandate can publish under
Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) that allows use of the work for commercial purposes.”
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sagechoice/faq.sp
SPRINGER
Funder
AHRC
BBSRC
EPSRC
ESRC
MRC
NERC
STFC
Wellcome
Recommended Route for Funder
Compliance
Green
Gold
Gold
Green
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
GREEN
Self-archiving policy: http://www.springer.com/open+access/authors+rights
Self-archiving through the Green Route on ORA and any other repository is permitted 12 months after
publication.
For researchers funded by ESRC and AHRC, this is within the maximum embargo period required for
compliance with the RCUK Open Access Policy through the Green Route.
For researchers in the Sciences, this exceeds the maximum embargo period of 6 months required for
compliance with the RCUK Open Access Policy. If funding for an Article Processing Charge is available,
authors should select the Gold Route.
GOLD
Authors can publish through the Gold Route:
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In a fully Open Access journal - http://www.springeropen.com/about
o Article Processing Charges vary:
http://www.springeropen.com/about/apcfaq/howmuch
In a “hybrid” journal - http://www.springer.com/open+access/open+choice
o Article Processing Charges are US$ 3000/EUR 2200 (excl. VAT).
COPYRIGHT
CC-BY, the Creative Commons licence required for compliance with RCUK when publishing through the
Gold Route, is permitted for the majority of journals
(http://www.springer.com/open+access/open+choice).
However, Pharma related titles and journals published by Springer Healthcare offer only CC-BY-NC, which
does not comply with the RCUK policy for Open Access publication via the Gold Route.