Charges, Licenses, and Self-Archiving
Open Forum Infectious Diseases is a fully open access journal, and all articles are published in the journal under an open access licence immediately upon publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
Charges for ID Cases and Letters using a CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND license or a Government/Crown Open Access license:
- Regular charge for non-society members: $3,378
- Discount for society members: 20%
- Free Developing country charge*: $0
There is no charge for the following article types: letter to the editor author response, supplement articles, editorial commentary (solicited), brief report (solicited), review article (invited), ID learning unit (invited), invited article, erratum, ID images (invited), top questions in ID (invited), ID cases (invited), Perspectives (invited), ID on the web (invited)
Charges for all other article types using a CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND license or a Government/Crown Open Access license:
- Regular charge for non-society members: $4,053
- Discount for society members: 20%
- Free Developing country charge*: $0
Corresponding authors based in countries and regions, that are part of the developing countries initiative are eligible for a full waiver of publishing fees in our fully open access journals. For further details, please see our APC Waiver Policy.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Please note that you may be eligible for a discount to the open access charge based on society membership. Authors may be asked to prove eligibility for the member discount. Please note that some article types may have different rates for open access.
Self-archiving
Under the terms of the license, authors are entitled to deposit the final published version of their article in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories immediately upon publication, provided that the journal and OUP are attributed as the original place of publication and that correct citation details are given. Authors are also strongly encouraged to deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version.
NIH, HHMI, UK MRC, and Wellcome Trust grantees should note that OUP automatically deposits all Open Access articles in PMC and UKPMC, where they are made freely available immediately upon publication in the journal. This means that articles published in OFID are fully compliant with the NIH Public Access policy and the HHMI, UK MRC, and Wellcome Trust policies on Open Access; therefore, authors wishing to comply with these policies need not take further action. For example, a separate submission to the NIHMS system is not necessary for authors (see the Frequently Asked Questions page for confirmation of this).
Preprint use of journal content
Authors may also upload their accepted manuscript PDF ("a post-print"*) to institutional and/or centrally organized repositories. However the journal strongly encourages authors to deposit the final published version of the article instead of the post-print version. This will guarantee that the definitive version is readily available to those accessing your article from such repositories, and means that your article is more likely to be cited correctly.
* Definition of a post-print: The final draft author manuscript, as accepted for publication, including modifications based on referees' suggestions but before it has undergone copyediting and proof correction.
- If uploading a post-print to a repository, authors are required to include a credit line (see last bullet point below) and a link to the final published version of the article.
- Authors should include the following credit line when depositing post-prints: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Open Forum Infectious Diseases following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated versi on [insert complete citation information here] is available online at [insert URL that author receives upon publication here].
Prior to acceptance for publication, authors retain the right to make a pre-print* version of the article available on your own personal website and/or that of your employer and/or in free public servers of preprints and/or articles in your subject area, provided that where possible:
*Definition of a pre-print: As un-refereed author version of the article.
- You acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication in Open Forum Infectious Diseases ©: [year] [owner as specified on the article] Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
- Once the article has been published, we do not require that preprint versions are removed from where they are available. However, we do ask that these are not updated or replaced with the finally published version. Once an article is published, a link could be provided to the final authoritative version on the Oxford Journals Web site. Where possible, the preprint notice should be amended to: “This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the Article].”
Once an article is accepted for publication, an author may not make a pre-print available as above or replace an existing pre-print with the final published version. Please follow this link for more information. In case of any additional queries, please contact Journals Permissions ([email protected]).
