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 offers all Emerald journal authors or book chapter authors the option to make their research immediately and openly available upon official publication, free from payment.
We are one of only a handful of publishers that doesn’t impose an embargo period.
Gold open access
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.
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).
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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.
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