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How MORE OpenChoice Works

Authors opting for MORE OpenChoice publication will use the submission procedure outlined in each journal’s 'Instructions for Authors' which may be found by following the link in the right-hand menu on the journal's webpage. A paper will be peer-reviewed without prior knowledge of how it is to be disseminated. Once a paper is accepted, authors are notified and offered MORE OpenChoice as a route to publication. Authors will be asked to provide details of any deposit obligations required (e.g. by their funding agencies) to ensure we comply with any technical requirements.  

MORE OpenChoice publication will only proceed after acceptance and payment will not be processed prior to formal acceptance. Authors opting for their article to be made open access are required to make payment via ManeyTrack, Maney Publishing's web-based production tracking sytem. Log-in details for ManeyTrack are supplied via email to corresponding author once his/her paper has entered production.

A signed Assignment of Copyright Form is also required and will be supplied to the corresponding author either at submission or with first proofs, depending on each journal's production route.

If a journal offers MORE OpenChoice this is indicated on the journal's homepage. If it is NOT a MORE OpenChoice participating journal, you should discuss your requirements with the managing editor of the journal or contact moreopenchoice@maneypublishing.com.
 

Article Charges

In order to place papers in the public domain via subject or institutional repositories, MORE OpenChoice charges at two standard rates. 

Science, Technical & Medical journals -  US$2,000 / £1,250

Humanities & Social Science journals -  US$800 / £500

Authors may pay the article charge themselves or generate an invoice via ManeyTrack to supply to funders who have agreed to pay publication fees. This article charge covers the expense of producing papers in a format suitable to fulfill deposit obligations (e.g. on PMC) foregoing any embargo that would normally be expected. It excludes standard article charges (colour printing, extra page charges, offprints, etc) that may apply.
 

Payment

Authors opting for their article to be made open access are required to make payment via ManeyTrack, Maney Publishing's web-based production tracking system. Log-in details for ManeyTrack are supplied via email to the corresponding author once his/her paper has entered production.

Via ManeyTrack , credit/debit card, cheque payment or bank transfer options may be selected, or an invoice generated. Payment will be accepted in GBP£ or US$ only. Bank charges will be paid by the remitter. Authors resident in any of the countries of the European Union have to add Value-Added Tax (VAT). Institutions paying the fee on behalf of the author can in most cases have the VAT refunded, or by following instructions within ManeyTrack enter their VAT registration number, and avoid paying VAT altogether.

Copyright

Maney uses, and offers authors, three different Creative Commons licenses in order to enable the open distribution of authors work. All authors whose research work is funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust must select the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY) in accordance with funder mandates effective from 1 April 2013. Other authors may use the aforementioned license or choose from the  Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 3.0 (CC-BY-NC) or Creative Commons Attribution License Non-Commercial 3.0 (CC-BY).  View Maney's copyright and permissions policy for MORE Open Choice papers.

Publication 

 A MORE OpenChoice paper will be published via our online hosting platforms, IngentaConnect or Highwire. It will also be published in print if that is part of the journal offering. At the same time, Maney will undertake to deposit a copy in repositories nominated by the author.