Pediatrics Open Access

What is Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is a scholarly communication publishing model by which research information is made free online for anyone, with no access fees. Open Access papers are processed through the same traditional publishing models and follow a rigorous and timely peer-review process for all manuscripts.

All Pediatrics content publishes under one of the OA licenses described below: Hybrid (standard), Gold (the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY licenses), or Green.

Hybrid Open Access

Pediatrics primarily publishes under the traditional subscription model (Hybrid OA) with a 12-month embargo. This means that, unless you are a member or subscriber, these articles require an access fee for 12 months after publication; afterwards, the article is freed to all readers for 4 years, then permanently returned to access fee status. You don’t need to make any special requests or pay any author fees for Hybrid OA.

However, if you want your article to be immediately and permanently freed and/or posted on PubMed Central, you will need to pay an author fee for Gold Open Access and sign a Pediatrics License to Publish agreement (giving Pediatrics the right to produce/publish the article, create derivatives, license, sell reprints, and repurpose content under new products created by the American Academy of Pediatrics).

Gold Open Access

There are two different Gold OA options with different costs and requirements.

Gold Option 1: NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

This Creative Commons license allows others to copy and redistribute your published article in any medium or format; they must properly attribute the original article to the American Academy of Pediatrics as the publisher of the paper, and provide a link to it. They cannot use the article for commercial purposes, and cannot distribute it if they remix, transform, or build upon it. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 for further information.

This license is preferred by such organizations as: National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Gold OA and PubMed Central: NIH and other US federally-funded Gold OA papers will be automatically deposited to PMC. Authors from other institutions may deposit their Gold OA paper’s Final Version of Record to PMC. Unless otherwise required, US government-funded papers will fall under the 12-month embargo per the American Academy of Pediatrics’ agreement with NIH.

These guidelines are subject to change.

Gold Option 2: International CC BY 4.0

This Creative Commons license lets others copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the published article, even commercially; they must properly attribute the original article to the American Academy of Pediatrics as the publisher of the paper, provide a link to it, and indicate if changes were made. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 for further information.

This license is preferred by such organizations as: Wellcome Trust, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Medical Research Council UK.

Gold OA and PubMed Central: NIH and other US federally-funded Gold OA papers will be automatically deposited to PMC. Authors from other institutions may deposit their Gold OA paper’s Final Version of Record (the article published online) to PMC. Unless otherwise required, US government-funded papers will fall under the 12-month embargo per the American Academy of Pediatrics’ agreement with NIH.

These guidelines are subject to change.

Green Open Access

Green OA allows you to self-archive a copy of your peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript file in your own institutional repository after the official date of final publication (ie, after the first day of the issue’s publication month, but not immediately after the early release date). It must include a citation and a link to the final published article. The published article will use our Hybrid OA model. You may not deposit any version in any commercial repository or Web site.

This license is preferred by NIH and other institutions that require papers (Author Accepted Manuscript) to be deposited to their online repository.

For US federally-funded papers only, Green OA allows you to self-archive in PubMed Central if accepted for publication, but you must include the 12-month embargo (or use Gold OA instead).

These guidelines are subject to change.