Authors may now choose to make their Research Papers published in the online edition of Endocrine-Related Cancer freely available to all, without access restrictions, immediately upon publication.
This option is available for the special introductory price of US$1500 including VAT (sales tax). This includes the reproduction of colour illustrations in the online version (but not print). Note that this fee is unlikely to be enough to enable the journal to become reliant upon author charges alone, in place of subscription income, and so will be reviewed from time to time. In many cases your research funding body may well be willing to cover the fee.
If you prefer not to pay this fee, you may still publish in this journal, but your Research Paper will initially be restricted to subscribers only, in the traditional way. In that case, your article will in any case become free to all twelve months after publication (in its final form).
Please note that authors of Review Articles do not need to pay this fee, as these articles are free to all in any case. The same applies to papers published in certain special supplements.
If you select and pay for the Free Access Option, the stipulation that you must embargo public release of any self-archived copy on a free online repository is waived. Please see our policy on self archiving for details. The other stipulations of our assignment of copyright form continue to apply.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
