Open Access & Self-Archiving Policy

Below details our open policy & self-archiving policy. Global Science Press’s policy may differ for each individual journal which may have their own independent policy and authors/librarians should also check with the copyright policy of the selected journal.

Open Access Policy

Publishing Open Access with Global Science Press

Global Science Press fully supports the movement to make research more accessible and has supported open access publishing since 2017.

UKRI-funded authors can comply with UKRI’s open access requirements by publishing with the gold access, which will allow the published article immediately available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Alternatively, universities with current subscriptions to the journal the article is published in can choose Green OA option with the embargo period waived.  Please visit the self-archiving page to view embargo periods.

Self-archiving

Submitted (preprint)

The preprint submitted before acceptance can be shared via:

• Author's personal website
• Scholarly collaboration network
• Non-commercial preprint servers & repositories

There is no embargo period for self-archiving of submitted versions.

Accepted version

This is the accepted version that includes any changes during the peer review process, but before the final published version (Version of Record).

Self-archiving involves an embargo period of 12 months. This includes posting the accepted author manuscript on your personal website, private research groups and institutional repositories.

This embargo is waived for institutions with a subscription to the journal that is under the above embargo period, in which the author can immediately share their accepted manuscript in above stipulated channels.

Open Access

There is no embargo period for journals published under gold open access. Authors are free to share under a Creative Commons (CC BY license).

Please contact info@global-sci.org for more information regarding these policies.