World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Authors can stay compliant with UKRI open access policy by going for Route 2 – the Green open access route.
Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of final publication (Version of Record), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under UKRI’s licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.
World Scientific Journals and Plan S
World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of Plan S under the “repository route”, also known as “green open access”.
Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of final publication (Version of Record), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under Plan S licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.
