Economic Issues and Open Access

Economic Issues

Economic Issues is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the principal output of the Economic Issues Education Trust, a UK Registered Charity (Registration Number 1092082).

 

As a registered Education/Training charity, the Economic Issues Education Trust is committed to the advancement of education for the public benefit. It does so partly by promoting the results of original research in Economics. To this end, the Trustees of the Economic Issues Education Trust; and the Editorial Board of Economic Issues, are committed to making the contents of the Economic Issues journal as widely available as possible and in as timely a manner as possible within the context of a sustainable business model for the journal.

 

In order to deliver on these related aims, the Open Access policy set out below has been agreed by the Trustees of the Economic Issues Education Trust and by the Editorial Board of Economic Issues. This policy will be subject to ongoing review, to ensure it continues to comply fully with the Open Access requirements of funding bodies and with all other related Open Access publishing policies as apply in the UK, including any which also apply across the EU.

 

Economic Issues and Gold Open Access

In order to promote the widest possible dissemination of research published in Economic Issues, in the most timely fashion, the Board of Trustees of the Charity have approved the following policy for Gold Open Access* (a glossary of those terms in the text which are indicated with an asterisk is provided at the end).

 

Once a paper has been accepted for publication in Economic Issues; and upon receipt of payment of the Article Processing Charge* (APC), but not before, the author(s) can make available a post-print* version of the paper on all public forums, for example on institutional repositories, subject repositories (eg RePEC) and personal websites.

 

Once a paper has been published, the authors will be provided with a Version of Record* (VoR) which can replace the post-print version. The Version of Record will simultaneously be made fully and freely available via the journal website.

 

The APC for Economic Issues is set at £100 and enables the author(s) to see that their article enjoys immediate, full, global access. Authors will also receive three hard copies of the volume of the journal in which the article appears.

 

This APC is considerably lower than for most other journals. The Board of Trustees and the Editorial Board of the journal have taken this decision in order to fulfil the role of Economic Issues as an Education Charity, in promoting the dissemination and discussion of ideas, whilst ensuring the continued viability of the journal.

 

Licence Agreement

In order to comply fully with RCUK policy on Licences, we make available all papers published with Gold Open Access freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.*

 

Economic Issues and Green Open Access

Authors can, alternatively, take up the Green Open Access* policy of Economic Issues. In this case, there will be no APC. There will be a 12 month embargo period*, after which the author(s) can make publicly available the post-print version of the article. The Version of Record of articles published under this route will be made freely available on the journal website only after 24 months from date of publication.

 

Implications for Subscribers to Economic Issues

Personal and individual institutional subscribers will receive paper copies of the journal. In addition, they will receive a PDF version of the journal upon publication.

 

Glossary of Terms

Article Processing Charge

This is a payment, made to the journal, which enables the author(s) to make an article fully available to all, immediately on publication, via Gold Open Access.

 

Creative Commons Licences

These licences offer ways in which research findings can be made freely and widely available within the framework of national copyright laws. Licence CC BY is the least restrictive licence available. Articles published under that licence can be reproduced, even commercially; they can also be remixed, amended and developed, so long as the authors of the original article are credited. More details can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/