SAGE now offers authors of primary research articles in a number of biomedical journals the option to make them freely available upon publication on SAGE Journals Online. The 'SAGE Open' 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 Open program will initially operate 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 scheme, SAGE will allow the deposition of the final paper, (post refereeing, copy-editing and proof-reading), to PubMedCentral and its international equivalents, such as UKPMC, or PMCI upon publication. All other SAGE policies regarding open access archiving remain unchanged. The SAGE Open 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 Open fee will enable articles to be immediately available on SAGE Journals Online 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 Open:Adaptive Behaviour For more details, visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. [PDF] For any questions not covered on the Frequently Asked Questions page, please send an e-mail to sageopen@sagepub.com. |
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