Publish open access

We offer choice and flexibility when you publish your work open access.

Access

Give a global audience immediate and easy access to your research increasing the visibility of your work.

Impact

Reach new audiences and policy makers; demonstrate the real-world application and impact of your work.

Compliance

Easily comply with funder, institution or employer mandates.

Choice

Open access routes to suit your budget, discipline, funder requirements or manuscript format. Pay your article/book processing charge directly or through institutional vouchers.

Quality

Manuscripts are rigorously peer-reviewed and a growing number of our journals are listed in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

Flexibility

Your work can be reused in a variety of ways with the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0.).

Security

All journal and eBook content is digitally and permanently preserved.

Visibility

Content is tagged and enhanced metadata makes sure your work is indexed in a variety of discovery systems.

Support

Our experienced editors and editorial boards are on hand to support you throughout the publishing process.

Discover more about our open access authors

We interviewed some of our open access authors to discuss their research, what they’ve achieved and their thoughts on publishing open access.

Read the interviews here

Are you eligible for an open access publishing voucher?

We partner with libraries and consortia to offer authors prepaid vouchers to publish their work openly.

Check your eligibility

Publish open access in our journals

Discover how you can publish open access in our journals.

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Publish open access in our books

Discover how you can publish an open access book or book chapter with us.

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Unsure which route to take?

Please fill in the form opposite and one of our team will be in touch to discuss which open access option is right for you.

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Our open access partnerships

Open research

Find our stance on open research and what it means to us at Emerald.

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Open research policies

Read about our gold and green open access policies, processsing charges, waiver policy and licensing.

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Open questions and answers

Still have questions about open research? Visit our open access frequently asked questions (FAQs).

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