About iOpenAccess

April 2008
Taylor & Francis have extended their "iOpenAccess" option to cover 234 journals in the physical sciences, environmental and agricultural sciences, behavioural sciences (including Psychology Press), development studies and medical and bioscience journals from Informa Healthcare.

All authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in one of these iOpenAccess journals will have the option to make their articles available to all via the Journal's website, and to post to repositories, for a one-off fee of $3250.

Commenting on the expansion of the initiative, Journals Publishing Director, Dr David Green, stated: "Taylor & Francis continues to have a strong tradition of meeting the needs of the academic and scientific research communities. Due to demand within certain author communities we are extending iOpenAccess availability. Author take-up thus far has been mainly in the biomedical and psychology fields, but authors whose research is supported by certain funders do require this option to be available."

• Authors are asked to grant a publishing licence or assign copyright in the normal way. Selection of the iOpenAccess option and payment of the appropriate fee will then allow the article to be made available to all the Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals. Under this licence we allow tagging and cross-referencing of articles within repositories so that they relate back to the original research grants and programmes.
• Authors selecting the iOpenAccess option have no embargo restriction on posting their version of the published article to any institutional or subject repository. Where appropriate, we facilitate deposit on behalf of authors into PubMedCentral.
• We undertake to review the subscription prices of each journal with respect to the uptake of the iOpenAccess initiative, and the relevant information will be published at www.informaworld.com.

Our continuing commitment to stringent, independent, expert peer review remains: only accepted articles are eligible for the scheme, and authors will only be offered the open access option when they are sent their proofs for review. This complete separation of payment from the peer review and acceptance process will ensure that editorial independence and quality are not compromised.

This initiative remains a pilot 'hybrid' open access scheme in these selected subjects, and comes after the experience of nearly 18 months of iOpenAccess being offered to authors, allied with a number of years' experimentation with access schemes operated by various T&F journals, as well as wide consultation with our editors, society partners and research funders. As promised previously, we intend to further increase the number of iOpenAccess journals over the coming months, and fees may vary as we expand this initiative into other subject areas.

Taylor & Francis has a justified reputation as a leading publisher and trusted partner of learned societies for over 200 years. Through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions it has become one of the world's leading imprints for academic books and journals. The name Taylor & Francis has long been associated with a pre-eminent tradition of scholarly science publishing.

Participating Journals

iOpenAccess Agreement
Supplemental Terms and Conditions for iOpenAccess articles published in Taylor & Francis journals