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:
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)
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.
Authors may self-archive 'Subscriber Access' articles as follows:
Author's personal website or personal page on his or her institutional website
Preprint Servers
Institutional Open Access Repository
Plan S (articles deriving from research fully or partially funded by Plan S signatories)
UKRI, Wellcome, NIHR funded research
PubMed (when mandated by funders)
ResearchGate
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 |
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