Open Access

Below are answers to frequently asked questions regarding Open Access articles. If you cannot find the information you are looking for, please get in touch with us by emailing our Journals team.

Authors of articles to be published in an Open Access journal should visit our License Options page to select and sign a Creative Commons License Agreement.

 

Berghahn Journals offers four levels of Open Access.

Subscribe-to-open (S2O) Access

Authors publishing in Berghahn Open Anthro journals do so under S2O Access, which allows the final publisher PDF to be available immediately upon publication through the publisher’s online platform and elsewhere as it is needed. Democratic Theory and Theoria will be S2O titles in 2024.

Authors retain the copyright in their Article and may select one* of three Creative Commons licenses for its publication: CC BY, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND. Where no choice is made explicit, the default Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which offers the strongest protections for the rights of the author, will be used. 

The Article Processing Charge (APC), to provide open access for the Article, is funded by library subscribers through the Subscribe-to-Open model. There are no APC charges to the author.

Gold Open Access

Gold Access allows the publisher PDF to be available immediately upon publication through the publisher's online platform and elsewhere as it is needed.

Authors retain the copyright in their Article and may select one* of three Creative Commons licenses for its publication: CC BY, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND. Where no choice is made explicit, the default Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which offers the strongest protections for the rights of the author, will be used.

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for Gold Open Access requires the payment of a fee prior to publication. The APC fee is: $1,200 / £900.

The availability of APC funds has no bearing on the acceptance of an Article and will only be invoiced once the Article has been cleared through peer review for publication.

Please contact Berghahn directly to inquire further.

Subscribe-to-Open Guaranteed Open Access

Berghahn offers 'guaranteed open access' as a path for researchers at supporting institutions to ensure a Gold OA article publication (the APC is waived and covered by the library’s subscription) should the threshold not be met for a particular year. Primary authors affiliated with subscribing institutions will qualify for guaranteed open access if their institution is a subscriber to the journal at the time of article acceptance.

Green Open Access

Green Access allows the author to post the final, postprint manuscript version of their Article, which is the final text after acceptance and peer review, in their institutional repository, other relevant repositories, or the author’s own website, after an embargo period of 18 months.

If Open Access is required for your Article, please contact the Berghahn journals manager concerning fees or embargo periods.

Berghahn Open Anthro: Funder Compliance

All funded authors may deposit their accepted postprint manuscripts in Institutional Systems and approved repositories under those license terms* and with an Embargo Period that complies with their Funders’ policies.

REF Compliance

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK institutions of higher education. Libraries archiving materials for REF consideration can follow the Green Access guidelines.
In line with REF 2021 compliance guidelines, upon article acceptance or no later than three months after the article’s publication, authors subject to the REF may make a closed deposit of the final, postprint manuscript version to their institution (or funder) repository. Once the embargo period of 18 months has passed, the postprint version can be made publicly accessible in the repository under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 user license agreement.

Preprint Access

Preprint Access allows all Berghahn authors to post the draft manuscript version of their Article, which is the final text prior to peer review and journal acceptance, in their institutional repository.

 

*It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that they select the correct license terms as dictated by any funder policies in connection with the research in their article.  

How can I access Open Access articles?

A yellow lock icon indicates that an article or issue is open access. Simply click on the article page or the download PDF button to access.

Does Berghahn publish OA journals?

Yes. Find a complete list of Berghahn Books Open Access content here. For exclusively Journals content, see Available Content on this page.

Open Access versus Free Access

Some articles will have green lock icons. These indicate Free Access and are temporarily made available.

 

Subscribe-to-Open (S2O)

With a mission for equity, sustainability, and diversity in authorship in mind, there are no cost barriers for authors to publish. A conditional model, it relies on subscription payments from libraries to publish forthcoming volumes open access with each new subscription year.

Berghahn Open Anthro

There are currently 15 journals in the Berghahn Open Anthro - Subscribe-to-Open (BOA-S2O) collection. All 2020 - 2023 issues are open access. 

Politics

Democratic Theory and Theoria will be S2O titles in 2024.

Other Open Access titles

The following journals are published open access as of the year listed.

The International Journal of Social Quality 
Thanks to the generous support of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), IJSQ will be published as an Open Access journal starting with Volume 11.

Articles

Browse a complete list of Open Access articles here.

Additionally, the following journals include a range of individual articles available as Open Access. 

 

Open Access Partners

 

   

The Directory of Open Access Journals provides a diverse and extensive index of open access journals. The DOAJ's accrediation criteria serves as the gold standard for open access publishing.

 

The Subscribe to Open (S2O) Community of Practice is an informal collective of over forty pro-open publishers, libraries, consortia, funders, service providers, and other stakeholders committed to providing equitable and economically sustainable OA publishing.

 

Established in 2015, Libraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who, drawing on the expertise of librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders, seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly communication system. 

Berghahn Journals partners with the OA Switchboard Initiative to help monitor, report on, and drive the visibility of our open access publications.

Jisc Collections is the negotiation and licensing service that supports the procurement of digital content for higher and further education and research institutions in the UK.