Free Access Option for authors of Endocrine-Related Cancer

Authors may now choose to make their Research Papers published in the online edition of Endocrine-Related Cancer freely available to all, without access restrictions, immediately upon publication.

This option is available for a fee of GBPŁ2000+VAT (sales tax). This includes the reproduction of colour illustrations in the online version (but not print). In many cases your research funding body may well be willing to cover the fee.

If you prefer not to pay this fee, you may still publish in this journal, but your Research Paper will initially be restricted to subscribers only, in the traditional way. In that case, your article will in any case become free to all twelve months after publication (in its final form).

Please note that authors of Review Articles do not need to pay this fee, as these articles are free to all in any case. The same applies to papers published in certain special supplements.

If you select and pay for the Free Access Option, the stipulation that you must embargo public release of any self-archived copy on a free online repository is waived. Please see our policy on self archiving for details. The other stipulations of our assignment of copyright form continue to apply. Note especially that no article may be reproduced for any commercial purpose without the prior agreement of the Society; we will usually charge for this.

In summary, for the fee above, the Free Access Option gives you the following benefits:

Your article becomes freely available to all in its final, definitive version, immediately upon publication.
This charge includes colour illustrations in the online version.
You may deposit your article onto other free online repositories for public view immediately upon publication (subject to our detailed policy).

If you wish to publish your Research Paper under the Free Access Option, please complete the Free Access Option order form .

Note that this is compulsory if you are required to make your article available free online within a shorter timescale than 12 months from publication. This will be the case if your work has been funded, for example by the Wellcome Trust. See Policy on Self Archiving for further details.