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Routes to open access
You can make your work open access at different points in the publishing process.
Pre-printing
Make the pre-peer-reviewed version open access on a preprint server, free of charge. Pre-printing makes your research findings quickly available and registers your discovery. Funders including The Wellcome Trust, UKRI and NIHR encourage researchers to share preprints, and may mandate this during public health emergencies. If you plan to submit to a journal, check the publisher policy before posting your preprint, to make sure they allow submissions of work that has already been shared as a preprint.
Self-archiving
Make your work open access by uploading the accepted manuscript to an institutional or subject repository (), without paying publishing fees. If your paper is covered by Rights Retention, you can make the accepted manuscript version immediately open access under a Creative Commons licence. Upload via to .
Publish open access on the publisher website
When you , your final full text will be freely available immediately upon online publication under a . This may require payment of an open access publishing fee; venues do not charge fees to read or publish.
You can make your work open access by self-archiving the accepted manuscript version in ORE, free of charge. Publishing open access on the publisher website normally requires payment of publishing fees so is not available to all authors equally.
An explanation of two ways to make work open access. 'Green': making your accepted manuscript open access in a repository; 'Gold': publishing the final version as open access on the publisher website (publishing fees may apply).