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Sage publishes a number of Open Access articles under our Gold Open Access journals and Sage Choice options.  See below for information regarding the reuse of these articles. Please note that Sage may make additional non-Open Access content freely viewable on Sage Journals, and the reuse of such material may require permission.

A number of funders require research articles which have resulted from their funding to be made open access. Sage helps authors comply with these mandates either via the gold open access publication route or green open access archiving.

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