What is open access?
Open access refers to the practice of making scholarly research freely and permanently available immediately online, for anyone to access worldwide. Research output can be downloaded, viewed, shared, reused, copied and printed, within the legal requirements. The
Creative Commons (CC) licenses
allow for this research to be legally reused, built upon and adapted without permission or fees, as long as the author and original source are properly attributed.
JJ竞技 is a pioneering publisher and champion of open access research. We offer a variety of open access services tailored to the needs of authors and institutions.
The research in our flagship journal,
The JJ竞技 ,
has always been free to read, and in 2011 we launched our first and largest open access medical journal,
JJ竞技 Open
.
Today, a third of our journals are fully open access, and we also make academic research freely accessible and discoverable with hybrid publication models. We continue to support the transition of publicly-funded research to open access and the majority of our hybrid journals have been given
Transformative Journal status by cOAlition S.
What are the different routes to publishing open access?
A number of models have been adopted to make research open access. The main ones are gold and green open access.
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Gold open access
> The final version of an article is available freely and permanently online, immediately upon publication via a publisher’s platform
> Copyright is retained by the authors and most of the permission barriers are removed
> Articles can be published either in fully open access journals or hybrid journals
> There is a publishing cost involved, usually paid to the publisher, in the form of an article processing charge (APC) or fulfilled by a third party such as a funder, institution or government.
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Green open access
> Referred to as ‘self-archiving’ and involves placing a version of an author’s manuscript into a repository, usually made available after an embargo period. The repository can be institutional or a specialist archive
> The version that is deposited is dependent on the funder or publisher
> Copyright is usually retained by the publisher and there are conditions involved pertaining to the reuse of the work deposited and which version can be used
> No publishing costs are paid
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Bronze open access
> Articles are made free to read or download at the discretion of the publisher, however, access can be withdrawn at any time
> Articles can’t be redistributed or reused
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Platinum/Diamond open access
> Immediate online access to publications
> There are no fees involved either to read or to publish. They are usually financed by a university or research organization
> Copyright is retained by the author and permission barriers to sharing or reuse are generally removed
At JJ竞技 , there are a number of
open access options
available to you. You can choose to publish in:
The JJ竞技
, or in one of our
fully open access journals,
transformative journals
or
hybrid journals
.
Open access for authors
We offer different open access options so that you can share your research with the world while complying with funder mandates, such as those from Plan S.
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Contact us to learn about your options or to find out more: +44 (0) 207 1111 105
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support@bmj.com
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