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 |
Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional |
£1750 |
£1500 |
©Authors |
Yes |
|
Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional |
£1750 |
£1500 |
©Authors CC BY NC-ND (or CC BY if mandated by funder) |
Yes |
|
Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional |
£1750 |
£1500 |
©Authors |
Yes |
|
Hybrid OA journal – Gold OA is optional |
£1750 |
£1500 |
©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 |
Full OA journal – all authors pay for Gold OA |
£1100 |
£880 |
© Authors CC BY |
Yes |
|
Neuronal Signaling | Full OA journal – all authors pay for Gold OA |
£1250 |
£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. 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. |