Choose the open access option that suits your institution
Publish and Read agreements Our tailored publish and read agreements are designed to support institutions transition to open access. These agreements remove the burden of publishing fees from individual authors, as well as providing read access to all existing and forthcoming BMJ journal content. Benefits • Supports a gradual transition to a ‘pay to publish’ model for research articles • Compliance with funders’ mandates • Provides quality production systems and automated open access workflows • Advanced and flexible reporting through dashboards – access your institution’s latest data anytime and from anywhere
• Touch-free payment workflow for authors means the agreement covers all publishing costs and eliminates the administrative burden for researchers Prepay account
This option is an advance payment system that allows institutions to deposit funds to cover the cost of open access publishing by their authors in any of BMJ’s journals. The article processing charge (minus your discount) is deducted from the account balance on acceptance of the article. Benefits • Institutions decide how much to pay upfront (£10k minimum) • Discount applied to APCs • Automated open access workflows and advanced reporting through dashboards – access your institution’s latest data anytime and from anywhere
• Automatic reminders if/when an account top-up is required • Unused funds automatically roll over to the following year
• Streamlines the administration of your institution’s open access output • Authors pay nothing – the agreement covers all publishing costs Membership Member institutions pay an annual fee (based on their Open Access output with BMJ journals in the previous year), which grants all authors at the institution a discount on the article publishing charge (APC) when submitting to any BMJ published journal. Benefits • Cost-effective Annual Membership fee • Discount on the APC • Automated open access workflows and advanced reporting through dashboards – access your
To discuss your requirements, please contact:
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institution’s latest data anytime and from anywhere • An affordable way to help support your researchers with open access publishing
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