Open Access
All papers are freely available online in Genome Research six months after publication, unless an author pays an Open Access surcharge of $3700 to make a paper freely available online immediately upon publication. Authors can select Open Access with either a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, or a CC-BY License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Authors who choose Open Access may select one of the two CC licenses by completing the OA License to Publish form upon acceptance (available in the Author Area at submit.genome.org). Choosing Open Access will have no effect on the acceptance and publication of submitted papers.
Note: The Open Access fee is in addition to the journal’s $1500 article processing charge (APC), which has recently been reduced, and applies to all accepted papers. Effective with the April 2021 issue, charges for author alterations (AA’s) in page proofs and revised color art have been eliminated.
If your institution has a Transformative License Agreement with CSHL Press at the time of manuscript acceptance, your publication fees may have been prepaid. The appropriate Creative Commons license plus Open Access designation will be applied to your paper. Please see https://www.cshl.edu/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-press/journals/transformative-agreements/ for more information. For a list of participating institutions see https://www.cshl.edu/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-press/journals/institutions-with-current-cshl-press-transformative-agreements/.
Compliance with Funder Mandates for Open Access
For authors seeking to publish their research in Genome Research
Genome Research is fully compliant with all known requirements for the publishing of research funded by most government and private organizations. Genome Research complies with the rules and timetable outlined in the most recent guidance for Plan S by the cOAlition S organization. The Plan S website includes Genome Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in their list of Plan S compliant transformative journals and publishers, which can be viewed on their website at https://www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-compliant-transformative-journals/
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, the nonprofit publisher of Genome Research, is part of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a nonprofit research institution in the fields of molecular and cellular biology. As part of its role in the scientific community, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (along with CSHL Press) are in regular discussion with major funders and regulatory groups to advocate for Open Access publishing and to ensure that authors are always able to publish openly in its research journals.
CSHL Press encourages all authors to review policies appropriate to their research publication plans via the links below. Librarians, funders, and institutional administrators are also encouraged to join CSHL Press in supporting various initiatives to help further Open Access research publication including participating in our transformative journal offerings and joining organizations such as Open Access Switchboard to enable the effective communication of key OA publication data between funders, authors, institutions, and publishers.
Helpful Links
1. Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator
https://journalcheckertool.org
This tool allows an author to enter the name of a funder, an institution, and the journal to which they plan to submit an article, and checks if this combination of funder, institution, and journal offers compliance with Plan S.
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2. Open Access Switchboard
https://www.oaswitchboard.org/
An independent intermediary, connecting parties and systems and streamlining communication and the neutral exchange of OA-related publication-level information to support fulfillment of OA publication-level arrangements
Short video animation: OA Switchboard Matching Publication Costs with Publication Funds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vgFf1oUZo
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3. CSHL Press Transformative Agreements
A Transformative Model for High-Quality Open Access Publishing in the Biological Sciences
https://www.cshl.edu/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-press/journals/transformative-agreements/