Scientific Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) have announced that authors publishing research in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) can now opt to make their articles open access. The EJHG Open option, introduced by NPG and ESHG, gives authors the choice of immediate open access on publication. This includes deposition of the final published version in PubMed Central.
The open access option is available to authors submitting original research articles to EJHG. Authors who opt in to EJHG Open agree to pay a publication fee of £2,000 / $3,000 / €
2,400 per accepted article. Open access articles will display the EJHG Open logo in both the print and online editions of the journal. EJHG Open articles will be freely accessible on the journal website and via PubMed Central immediately after publication. Authors who choose EJHG Open are also entitled to self-archive the final published PDF of their articles upon publication.
Open access articles will be published under a Creative Commons license, meaning the final published version of EJHG Open articles can be shared and reused for non-commercial purposes as long as the author and original publication are cited. Authors can choose from two Creative Commons licenses, including one which permits derivative works, ensuring that authors can comply with funders such as the Wellcome Trust.
Authors submitting original research articles who do not wish to take up the EJHG Open option can still comply with funder and institutional mandates, by self-archiving or opting into NPG's Manuscript Deposition Service. The author's version of the accepted manuscript can be made publicly accessible six months after publication, in line with NPG's License to Publish and self-archiving policy.
The European Journal of Human Genetics (www.nature.com/ejhg) is the official journal of the European Society of Human Genetics, published in partnership with NPG. The journal joins 14 other journals published by NPG that now offer an open access option to authors.
