Publish in an open access journal
Read about our green, gold and platinum policies, article processing charges and funding. Search over 350 journals to find the right home for your open access research.
Choose your open access route
You can publish open access in any of our journals through our gold, green and platinum routes.
If you have already published in a subscription journal and would like to make your paper open access, you can submit a request through our retrospective open access policy and follow the green open access, or self-archiving, route.
Green open access
Our green open access route for books and journals gives you the option to make your research openly available, free from payment and embargo periods.
Our zero-embargo policy means you can self-archive in a repository as soon as your research is published.
Gold open access
Publish in a hybrid journal
You can choose to publish gold open access in any of our journals by indicating on the editorial system when you submit your paper.
Your article will undergo full peer review and you will be invoiced for the article processing charge (APC). We make sure that paying subscribers to the journal are not charged to access the open content. You can find the APCs on your chosen journal’s page.
Publish in a fully open journal
All articles published in our fully open access journals are published gold OA. Your article will undergo full peer review and you will be invoiced for the article processing charge (APC).
Fully open access journals
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Alternative ways to publish OA
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Open policies
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Emerald Open Research
Choose our gold open research platform for fast and transparent publishing aligned to the Sustainable Developement Goals. Publish outputs from research articles and data notes, to study protocols and methods articles.