SAGE offers authors of primary research articles in a number of biomedical journals the option to make them freely available upon publication on SAGE Journals. The 'SAGE Choice' publishing option enables authors to comply with new funding body requirements, (for example those now in place from the Wellcome Trust), and ensures that relevant journals are compliant with NIH/Wellcome Trust and other grant funder requirements.

The SAGE Choice program operates across a number biomedical journals in the SAGE portfolio. The fee per article for this service is $3,000USD/£1600GPB and excludes any other potential author fees levied by some journals (such as color charges, which are additional) as well as taxes where applicable.

Under this program, SAGE will post to PubMed Central (PMC) or its international equivalents, such as UKPMC or PMCI on behalf of authors where their funder requires it. All other SAGE policies regarding open access archiving remain unchanged.

The SAGE Choice option will be made available to authors of primary research articles only upon acceptance of their paper for publication. This is in order to prevent any potential conflicts of interest, and to ensure that authors' choice/funder requirements have no influence on the editorial peer review and decision-making.

Payment of the SAGE Choice fee will enable articles to be immediately available on SAGE Journals to non-subscribers, as well as to subscribers to that journal. It will also permit authors to submit the final manuscript to their funding agency's preferred archive if applicable.

Initially, this option will be made available for a selection of journals (see below for full list). These journals will publish articles in a hybrid manner. Those authors who do not wish to use this service will be under no pressure to do so, and their article will be published free of charge, in the usual manner. All existing policies on author posting of the final version will then apply.

The following list of journals participate in SAGE Choice:

Adaptive Behaviour
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
American Journal of Medical Quality
American Journal of Men's Health
Angiology
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
Autism
Biological Research for Nursing
British Journal of Visual Impairment
Cardiac Cath Lab Director
Cartilage
Cephalalgia
Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Chronic Illness
Chronic Respiratory Disease
Clinical Alert
Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Clinical Nursing Research
Clinical Pediatrics
Clinical Rehabilitation
Clinical Trials
Concurrent Engineering
Culture & Psychology
Dementia
Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
Emotion Review
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (formerly European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation)
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care
Evaluation and the Health Professions
Foot & Ankle Specialist
Genes & Cancer
Geriatric Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation
Global Health Promotion
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Health Education & Behavior
Health Education Journal
Health Informatics Journal
Health Promotion Practice
High Performance Polymers
History of Psychiatry
History of the Human Sciences
Home Health Care Management & Practice
Human & Experimental Toxicology
Indoor and Built Environment
Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition
Innate Immunity
Integrative Cancer Therapies
Intensive Care Unit Director
International Journal of Behavioral Development
International Journal of Damage Mechanics
International Journal of Engine Research
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds
International Journal of Robotics Research
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
International Journal of Surgical Pathology
International Journal of Toxicology
Journal of Aging and Health
Journal of Applied Gerontology
Journal of Asthma & Allergy Educators
Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers
Journal of Biological Rhythms
Journal of Biomaterials Applications
Journal of Biomolecular Screening
Journal of Building Physics
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Journal of Cellular Plastics
Journal of Child Health Care
Journal of Child Neurology
Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Journal of Composite Materials
Journal of Dental Research
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
Journal of Elastomers & Plastics
Journal of Evidenced-based Complementary & Alternative Med
Journal of Family Nursing
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
Journal of Fire Science
Journal of Generic Medicines
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurology
Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
Journal of Health Psychology
Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Journal of Holistic Nursing
Journal of Human Lactation
Journal of Industrial Textiles
Journal of Infection Prevention
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
Journal of International Assoc of Physicians in AIDS Care
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing
Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Journal of Psychopharmacology
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
Journal of Research in Nursing
Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials
Journal of School Nursing
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Assoc.
Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
Journal of Transcultural Nursing
Journal of Vibration and Control
Lupus
Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
Medical Care Research & Review
Medical Decision Making
Multiple Sclerosis
Music & Medicine
NASN - School Nurse
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Nursing Ethics
Nursing Science Quarterly
Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Otolaryngology
Palliative Medicine
Perfusion
Perspectives in Public Health
Perspectives in Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology
Prosthetics and Orthotics International
Qualitative Health Research
Rationality and Society
Reproductive Sciences
Research on Aging
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
School Psychology International
Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Social Science Information
Social Studies of Science
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Structural Health Monitoring
Surgical Innovation
Textile Research Journal
Theory & Psychology
The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease
The Diabetes Educator
The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design
The Neurohospitalist
The Neuroscientist
Transcultural Psychiatry
Trends in Amplification
Toxicologic Pathology
Toxicology & Industrial Health
Trauma
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Vascular Medicine
Veterinary Pathology
Western Journal of Nursing Research
World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery

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