open access

1. Open access and authors

Authors will be asked about open access during submission and given details of how to make their articles open access at the proof stage. Authors who do not wish to pay for open access will still be able to publish their article in the usual way (i.e. as a non-open-access article). Authors in certain countries and institutions (see below) may be able to publish their article as open access without direct cost via transformative arrangements.

2. Open-access fee

The open-access fees for Acta Crystallographica Section F are as follows.

The fees are used to meet the costs of peer review, of journal production, and of online hosting and archiving. There are no submission charges.

3. Payment

An article may be made open access at any time after the proof stage on receipt of the appropriate payment. This also applies to all back articles on Crystallography Journals Online.

How to pay

Authors may pay by credit card, bank transfer or voucher. Please note that purchase order and invoicing arrangements are also available.

IUCr members

If you are an IUCr Associate, are in the World Directory or have an IUCr ID, you may claim the appropriate member price. Details of how to claim are provided at proof stage.

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In addition, if you are a member of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), African Crystallographic Association (AfCA), Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA), European Crystallographic Association (ECA) or Latin-American Crystallographic Association (LACA), you may claim the member price.

Authors in countries or institutions with transformative arrangements

If your institution is taking part in a transformative deal with our publication partner, Wiley, you will be able to publish research or review articles open access in Acta Crystallographica Section F with no direct charge. Currently, there are transformative deals in Australia, Austria, Botswana, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Macau, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA. If your article is accepted for publication, the IUCr will pass details of your article on to Wiley so that open access can be arranged.

Sponsoring open access

Organisations wishing to sponsor open-access publication of a series of articles or complete journal issues should contact support@iucr.org.

4. Open access and copyright

Acta Crystallographica Section F adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of open-access articles.

✓ Authors of open-access articles will not be asked to transfer copyright to the IUCr.

✓ Open-access articles are published under an open-access Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Licence.

✓ The journal takes part in and supports transformative arrangements.

✓ The IUCr is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

5. Open access and funding bodies

Some funding bodies, e.g. NIH, require authors to deposit their articles in a recognised archive such as PubMed Central. The IUCr recommends that such articles are made open access. A summary of the IUCr arrangements for NIH-funded authors can be found at https://journals.iucr.org/services/nihpolicy.html.

IUCr publications aim to meet best practice in open-access publication and conform with the publisher requirements of funders such as the Wellcome Trust, see https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/publisher-requirements. For authors with cOAlition S funding, details of whether the open-access fees will be covered or not can be looked up using the Journal Checker Tool:

For authors choosing green open access, we allow immediate deposition of the authors' electronic reprint (version of record) or the author accepted manuscript. A CC-BY licence may be applied to the author accepted manuscript, as required by some funders.

6. Taxes

For all orders from the UK, value-added tax (VAT, currently 20%) will be charged. For authors from other countries in the European Union, VAT will be charged at the local rate unless a VAT registration number is provided.

7. Reimbursement

We are generally unable to process cancellations, refunds or returns of open-access fees after publication. Authors seeking reimbursement should contact IUCr Customer Services (support@iucr.org).