Open access book chapters
At Taylor & Francis we aim to offer authors choice in their route to publishing, and that includes when and how they choose to publish open access (OA) with us.
We offer two options for authors or contributors to make individual book chapters available as open access. Whilst there are many different definitions of open access, these options correspond to what is normally referred to as ‘gold’ or ‘green’ open access.
The two options for OA book chapters are as follows:
1. Author pays for immediate open access (the ‘Gold’ OA model)
Gold open access means that the final published version of the author’s chapter is permanently and freely available online for anyone, anywhere, to read.
Chapters from all research-level books that fit our standard publishing model for specialist scholarly works are eligible for gold open access. Research-level books can be single or co-authored books and edited collections.
We will make the published book chapter available open access on the TaylorFrancis.com website. Making your chapter open access can be arranged with the relevant Taylor & Francis editor either in advance of publication or retrospectively after publication.
A chapter is considered anything which is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and does not form part of the front or back matter. This includes Introduction and Conclusion chapters and may include appendixes or other supplementary content. Please contact your Editorial team for further information.
Our partial OA titles are clearly identified on our dedicated eBooks platform TaylorFrancis.com.
Please see our OA Books Publishing Charges & Funding page for information on prices.
A maximum of 50% of the total number of chapters can be made open access on an individual basis before the full BPC becomes payable. In rare instances where a partial OA title does have 50% or more of the chapters open access, we reduce the list price of the eBook by 50%.
2. Archiving a chapter on a website or in a repository (the ‘Green’ OA model)
Our green open access policy refers to self-archiving of a chapter (not whole book) and applies to the earlier version of the chapter or ‘Accepted Manuscript’ (AM). An AM is the post-contract but pre-production (i.e. not copyedited, typeset, or proofread) Word Document/PDF version of the chapter that has been approved for publication.
Chapters from all Taylor & Francis books are eligible for green open access, as follows:
Single authored book: one chapter
Multi-authored book: one chapter per author
Edited book: one chapter per editor or contributor
Authors may upload the AM chapter to a closed (not publicly accessible) departmental or institutional repository immediately after publication of the book (what is often referred to as the Version of Record), so that it is freely available for anyone within your institutional network to access. Such a repository is accessible to students or staff members only.
Authors can also post the AM book chapter to an open repository or academic social media site (such as Mendeley, ResearchGate or Academia.edu), or a personal or departmental website (including Facebook, Google groups, LinkedIn and Twitter), after an embargo period of 18 months for Humanities and Social Sciences books or 12 months for STEM books. All authors are required to respect the relevant embargo periods before making AMs available as an open deposit. An open repository is one that is freely available for anyone to access. In some cases, exceptions can be made to our embargo periods to meet funder mandates.
We recommend that you apply a Creative Commons (CC) license to the AM version to make it clear to others how they can reuse your work. We recommend the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license. In summary, this Creative Commons License permits the sharing of the OA Content by others provided that the Author is credited but does not permit any alterations to the OA Content or for it to be built upon or for the OA Content to be used commercially. The following statement can be used when sharing your AM chapter:
“It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”
Authors may not post the final published book chapter (Version of Record) to any site, unless it has been published as gold open access on our website. Please note that the author is responsible for supplying their AM version of their chapter for self-archiving.
