Portland Press Open Access Overview

All of our subscription journals offer authors the choice to pay a charge (article publishing charge or APC), allowing the final published article (the definitive Version of Record or VoR) to be published Open Access (OA). This makes the published article freely available online from the journal site and ensures that most types of distribution and re-use will be permitted without restrictions or charges.

Authors have the option to choose the Gold OA route for manuscripts that are submitted to any of our subscription journals (hybrid OA). We also publish two fully Open Access journals: Bioscience Reports and Neuronal Signaling.

NB Selection of Gold OA for a manuscript has no bearing whatsoever on the editorial decisions and the outcome of peer review. The decision to publish an article is governed entirely by the peer-review process and our Editors. The journals’ Editors and Reviewers will not know whether an author has opted to pay for Gold OA. Payment to facilitate Gold OA is only collected after (if) a manuscript has been formally accepted for publication.

If you have any questions, or for more information, write to us at sales@portlandpress.com

 

Portland Press Open Access pricing breakdown:

Journal

Type of Journal

Fees/APC for Gold OA1

Special rates for members and subscribers1

Licensing2 & copyright3

Publisher deposits final VoR to PubMed Central

Biochemical Journal

Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional

£1750
$3500
€2590

£1500
$3000
€2200

©Authors

CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) 

Yes

Clinical Science

Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional

£1750
$3500
€2590

£1500
$3000
€2200

©Authors

CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) 

Yes

Biochemical Society Transactions

Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional

£1750
$3500
€2590

£1500
$3000
€2200

©Authors

CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) ​

Yes

Essays in Biochemistry

Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional

£1750
$3500
€2590

£1500
$3000
€2200

©Authors

CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) ​

Yes
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional £1250
$2225
€1885		 £875
$1555
€1320

©Authors

CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) ​

 Articles will be deposited once the journal has been accepted by PMC

Bioscience Reports

Full OA journal – all authors pay for Gold OA

£1100
$1550
€1300

£880
$1240
€1040

© Authors

CC BY

Yes
Neuronal Signaling Full OA journal – all authors pay for Gold OA

£1250
$2225

 £875
$1555

© Authors

CC BY

 Articles will be deposited once the journal has been accepted by PMC

1Fees for Hybrid OA: Our Hybrid OA charges are £1750; US$3500; €2590 per article. Discounted rates are £1500; US$3000; €2200 and will apply if you are currently a member of the Biochemical Society or if your institution has an active subscription to a Portland Press journal. Note that Emerging Topics in Life Sciences (published on behalf of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Biology) is a hybrid journal, however the OA charges are different to our other OA journals, as shown in the table.
Fees for Bioscience Reports: As this is a full OA journal, all articles follow the Gold OA route and carry a charge of £1100; US$1550; €1300. Biochemical Society members and authors at subscribing institutions are offered a discounted rate of £880; US$1240; €1040. Charges are waived for invited articles.
Fees for Neuronal Signaling: As this is a full OA journal, all articles follow the Gold OA route and carry a charge of £1250; US$2225. Biochemical Society members and authors at subscribing institutions are offered a discounted rate of £875; US$1555. Charges are waived for invited articles.

2Licensing and permissions: As full OA journals, Bioscience Reports and Neuronal Signaling publish all papers under a CC BY licence. For the hybrid journals, authors are able to select a CC BY licence if this is mandated by their funder. This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon the published article, even commercially, as long as they credit the original article. This is the most accommodating of all the licences offered and will be compliant with mandates and OA policies of funding bodies. Where a funder OA policy does not require publication under a CC BY licence, authors are offered the protective CC BY NC-ND licence for their OA articles. This licence allows unrestricted readership of the article while ensuring that commercial use and adaptations cannot be made without permission.

3Copyright: Authors of Portland Press journals retain copyright and assign us, the Publisher, an exclusive Licence to Publish. This is the case for all published articles regardless of whether they are OA or subscription articles. For all OA articles, the Licence to Publish assigned to us by Authors will point to the relevant Creative Commons licence (as described above) to guide use and re-use terms for readers and authors alike.