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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.

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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.

Funder Agencies' Open Access Mandates

Please check with your funder if there is a mandate to publish your research open access and the criteria for compliance. There are other resources which may also be helpful:

Why publish Sage Choice? 

The Sage Choice publishing option was designed to support authors who wish to have their research article made open access immediately upon publication, or are required to do so by their funding body. The policies of grant funding bodies throughout the world (e.g., NIH, Wellcome Trust, RCUK etc.) vary widely with regards to open access requirements and Sage Choice is designed to be compliant with some of the most stringent requirements.

At Sage we value the hard work and dedication of our reviewers, so we are very happy to offer the following rewards every time you review for a Sage journal:

Content published in Sage journals represents the view of the author(s) and does not necessary reflect those of the journal, the affiliated organization(s) or Sage.

Signing the Journal’s Contributor License

Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Contributor License for all journal articles we publish.

Sage’s Contributor License is a license agreement under which the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the proprietor.

Sage is fully compliant with the Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy. Any article published by Sage that has had an Article Processing Charge (APC) funded by the Wellcome Trust will be published under a Creative Commons, Attribution (CC BY) licence, Version 4 (effective 1st April 2017) and will be automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) on behalf of the author without embargo.