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In order for Sage to publish your article in one of our hybrid or subscription journals, you must sign a Contributor License.
The below instructions will guide you through how to sign your Contributor License in Sage Journals: Licensing & Payment.
After your article has been accepted for publication, following the peer review process, you will be contacted with instructions and a link to Sage Journals: Licensing & Payment.
Some subscription journals charge authors page or publication charges to publish their article. There has been ambiguity when an article, from one of these journals, has any of these associated costs as well as open access (OA) as to what should be charged. Therefore, Sage is clarifying its policy on the subject (July 2022).
There are two ways an article in a subscription journal can publish OA, one is through requesting to publish your article OA, this is called Sage Choice, or the article may have been identified as part of one of our Open Access Sales Deals (OASD).
What is open access?
Open access content is made freely available to under the terms of a Creative Commons licence. Open access publication is usually subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC) paid by the author, institution or funding body.
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The below instructions will guide you through how to use Sage Journals: Licensing & Payment to select your publishing route in the event you are eligible for Open Access via an Open Access Agreement with your Institution or want to opt for Sage Choice. The Sage Choice program offers authors the option to publish their article Open Access in Sage’s hybrid subscription journals.
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