‘Gold’ and ‘Green’ Open Access
See definitions at the bottom of the page.
Open Access articles attract far more attention than non-Open Access articles—in some cases more than 10-fold. Open Access articles are immediately available to a much broader audience, including the general public. This potentially results in a wider and greater impact and faster citation growth.
The Academic community promotes Open Access as the desired publication model for disseminating research results and in many situations today publication with Open Access is mandatory.
Inter-Research (IR) supports both the 'Gold' and 'Green' models of Open Access as follows:
‘Gold’ Open Access
IR offers Gold Open Access under the Creative Commons by Attribution License (CC-BY).
Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Open Access depend on article type and date of article submission, and range from € 650 to € 2500 for articles submitted on or after 1 November 2022, and from € 500 to € 2000 for articles submitted before 1 November 2022.
Feature Articles are published with Open Access at no cost to authors. Fee discounts or waivers are available for particular categories of hardship (for more information, refer to the individual journal links).
Full details of pricing for each journal are given in the following links:
'Hybrid' journals (Subscriber access with optional purchase of Open Access; articles not published with Open Access will become freely accessible to all users 5 years after publication). These journals are transforming to fully Open Access journals. See Transformative Journals
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Fully Open Access journals (purchasing Open Access is mandatory; at the present time ESEP is free of charge)
Aquaculture Environment Interactions
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
Read and Publish Agreements
The following institutions have Read and Publish Agreements with Inter-Research. The institution’s subscription pays for Open Access publication of articles authored by its members as well as for reader access to subscriber-locked material. Articles with the Corresponding Author affiliated to any of these institutions are published with Open Access in any of the Inter-Research journals without paying the Article Processing Charge (APC).
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – KAUST (Saudi Arabia, 2021–2022)
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research / Norsk Institutt for Naturforsking – NINA (Norway, 2022–2023)
Author self-archiving ('Green' Open Access)
(See definitions of terms at the bottom of the page)
‘Gold’ Open Access articles:
No restrictions. Authors are free to post the Preprint, Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM), and publisher’s Version of Record (VoR) of ‘Gold’ Open Access articles on any website or in any online repository.
‘Subscriber Access' articles:
Authors may self-archive 'Subscriber Access' articles as follows:
Author's personal website or personal page on his or her institutional website
Preprints may be posted at any time.
AAMs may be posted at any time after the article is accepted for publication by IR.
VoRs may be posted once the article becomes freely accessible from the IR website, 5 years after publication.
Preprint Servers
Preprints may be deposited on a Preprint Server at any time. Pay careful attention to the Open Access rules of that server; once deposited on the Preprint Server, it may be compulsory to publish the manuscript with Open Access if it is accepted for publication by Inter-Research.
Institutional Open Access Repository
Preprints may be deposited at any time.
AAMs may be deposited 12 months after publication. Authors who are mandated by their institutions to license—before the transfer of copyright to Inter-Research– the deposit of AAMs into their designated Institutional Repository within the 12 month embargo period must return the institution’s official “Addendum to Publication Agreement” (for each author affected) with the completed IR Manuscript Acceptance Form and obtain IR’s agreement to the Addendum.
VoRs may be deposited once the article becomes freely accessible from the IR website, 5 years after publication.
Plan S (articles deriving from research fully or partially funded by Plan S signatories)
Preprints may be deposited into an Open Access repository at any time.
AAMs may be assigned a CC-BY (or CC-BY-ND if agreed by the cOAlition S Organisation) or equivalent license, with the original copyright holders retaining their copyright in the AAM, and shared and/or deposited into an Open Access repository any time after publication of the publisher's VoR.
VoRs may be deposited once the article becomes freely accessible from the IR website, 5 years after publication.
UKRI, Wellcome, NIHR funded research
Inter-Research complies fully with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence for release no later than the date of first online publication.This takes precedence in cases of conflict with other Author self-archiving policies here.
PubMed (when mandated by funders)
Preprints may be deposited at any time.
AAMs may be deposited 6 months after publication.
VoRs may be posted once the article becomes freely accessible from the IR website, 5 years after publication.
ResearchGate
Preprints may be deposited at any time.
AAMs may be deposited any time after publication, but with access limited to "supply on request" only.
VoRs may be posted once the article becomes freely accessible from the IR website , 5 years after publication.
In all cases, the article on a website or in the repository must have a link to its abstract page on the Inter-Research website, and cite the article doi.
Summary of permitted self-archiving
| Archive Type | Subscriber Access | Free Access or Open Access | ||||
| Preprint | AAM | VoR | Preprint | AAM | VoR | |
| Personal/Institutional webpage/website, Open Access Repository, ResearchGate | Any time | 12 months after publication (ResearchGate: any time after publication, but set "supply on request") |
5 years after publication | Any time | Any time at/after publication | Any time |
| Deposit mandated by Plan S signatory, UKRI, Wellcome, NIHR funders | Any time at/after publication | |||||
| PubMed deposit mandated by funder | 6 months after publication | |||||
| Repository depositions licensed by authors prior to acceptance | Any time at/after publication | |||||
Definitions:
- 'Gold' Open Access = article published by publisher with free availability to all users; available from IR as Open Access (or formerly Free Access).
- 'Green' Open Access = Author self-archiving in an Open-Access repository or on their personal or institutional website, in parallel to publication by the publisher.
- AAM (Author Accepted Manuscript) = the author-generated version of the manuscript accepted for publication and sent to the publisher for production (i.e. includes the corrections made during peer review, but excludes corrections and enhancements made by the publisher's sub-editors, copy-editors, graphic designers, and web-services).
- Preprint = the manuscript version initially submitted to the journal for review (before peer-review).
- VoR (Version of Record) = final professionally typeset article published by the publisher.