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Cambridge Elements is a new concept in academic publishing, a primarily digital product combining the best features of journals and books.
We support open access for Elements in line with our commitment to explore publishing models that are financially sustainable, scalable and in accordance with our mission to disseminate knowledge at the highest international levels of excellence.
We facilitate OA in Elements both through our Gold OA publishing programme and through our Green OA policy.
Under this model, the author (or a funder) pays a processing charge and an online version of the Element is published under a Creative Commons licence. Print and other digital formats (such as a Kindle version) are available for purchase.
We encourage interested authors to contact the relevant subject editor to discuss options.
We now allow Elements to be converted to open access retrospectively. Please contact your Cambridge editor for more information.
Our default Creative Commons (CC) licence is CC-BY-NC-ND . Please contact your Editor if your funder requires a different CC licence. You can find more detail about CC licences here.
Our standard Element Processing Charge (EPC) for Gold OA is £6,000/$7,600 excluding applicable taxes. The charge may vary depending on the details of your project, and your editor will be able to discuss this with you.
CUP has an OA Books agreement with the Max Planck Group. It is a 3-way partnership whereby the MPG provides partial open access funding for authors affiliated with its group of institutions.
No. We will apply the same high standards and procedures as for our other Elements. This includes editorial processes such as peer review, production processes of design and typesetting, through to marketing and dissemination. Our open access option is geared purely towards allowing you to make your work freely available online for academic purposes.
Yes, but some rights holders might be reluctant to allow their material to be reproduced in an OA work. You must ensure that any permissions you secure for third-party material allow you to include it in your open access work.
Ideally, the third-party material will have been previously published under a Creative Commons licence that already allows you to include it. Other third-party material can be clearly indicated as being reproduced by permission and that it is protected by third party copyright, with a notice that it cannot be reused without further permissions clearance from the identified third-party rights holder.
Many authors wish to post or archive copies of their work on their website or in institutional repositories, to make them freely available for others to read. Funders and other organisations also often require research funded by them to be made freely available open access under a Creative Commons licence.
If your funder or institution requires you to publish your research under a Creative Commons licence, please note that you will need to publish your Element Gold Open Access (as described above) to comply with this requirement.
If you do not publish Gold Open Access, you may be able to share some versions of your manuscript online in accordance with our Green Open Access policy below.
Please note: This policy replaces all previous Green Open Access policies, and the terms of this policy apply to all Elements retrospectively.
For example, if an author has previously signed a publishing agreement that is more restrictive in how they may share pre-final versions of their Element than our current Green Open Access policy, this policy supersedes the relevant conditions in their publishing agreement.
We use the following terms and definitions in this policy:
Authors may share versions of their Elements manuscripts online in accordance with the following terms:
When sharing SMURs online under this policy, we require:
Example statements are:
Please note: This policy does not permit you to share your AM or VoR online, unless your Element is published Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence.