Author Choice for Open Access
AGU journals now offer authors the opportunity to make their articles open for others to read for free. Authors choosing this option pay a fee based on article length and number of figures; these charges are designed to offset the potential loss of subscription income. This new option, called Author Choice, provides
- Unlimited access to the article for all readers from the moment of publication,
- Permission to deposit the PDF version in institutional repositories so long as the repository accepts AGU copyright permissions, and
- Continued copyright protection to prevent unauthorized uses of the author’s work.
Author Choice is available to all authors who honor full publications charges. Cost is an additional $142.50 per publication unit for Geophysical Research Letters and $75 per publication unit for all other AGU journals. Authors will be able to use the AGU online calculator to determine their fees. The Author Choice option is not available for Reviews of Geophysics, Earth Interactions, and Nonlinear Geophysics.
Any article published in 2007 or currently in production is eligible for Author Choice. For articles already published, access restrictions will be removed upon payment of the Author Choice fee. If there is sufficient interest, Author Choice may be extended to articles published in 2002–2006.
