Hybrid Open Access (Sage Choice)
The Sage Choice program offers authors the option to publish their article open access in hybrid subscription journals. It also enables authors to comply with funding body requirements, where publishing research papers open access is a stipulation of funding, while still publishing their article in the hybrid journal of their choice.
Sage Choice is only available to authors after their manuscripts have been accepted for publication. This is in order to prevent any potential conflicts of interest, and to ensure that authors' choice and/or funder requirements have no influence on the editorial peer review and decision-making process.
If your article has been accepted for publication in a subscription journal published by Sage and you wish to publish under the Sage Choice option, please email your request to openaccess@sagepub.com.
Journals offering Sage Choice & article processing charges (APCs)
Sage Choice journal & pricing exceptions
Note: Articles published in our Gold Open Access journals are not eligible for Sage Choice as they are already open access.
Most of our 1,200+ journals offer Sage Choice, but there are some that do not. Please check the list of journals that do NOT participate in Sage Choice before requesting Sage Choice.
- Abstracts in Anthropology
- British Journalism Review
- A Current Bibliography on African Affairs
- Index on Censorship
- InnovAiT
- International Political Science Abstracts / Documentation Politique Internationale
- Journal of the ICRU
- Pain News
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Political Insight
Funding
Under this program, Sage will post to PubMed Central (PMC) or its international equivalents, such as Europe PMC or PMCI, on behalf of authors where their funder requires it. All other Sage policies regarding open access archiving remain unchanged.
Funding or discounted fees may be available through your institution or library and so we encourage you to check with your librarian or university contact.
View Open Access agreements to see if your institution can help you publish Open Access.
Additional resources
For any questions not covered by the Hybrid subscription journals (Sage Choice) FAQs page, please email openaccess@sagepub.com
