SAGE Publications

Green open access summary

This is a short summary of the green open access policy of SAGE Publications.

Preprint: archiving allowed

Postprint: archiving allowed

Published version: archiving forbidden

Conditions

• Authors retain copyright
• Pre-print on any website
• Author's post-print on author's personal website, departmental website, institutional website, institutional repository or other repositories, including PubMed Central
• Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged
• Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
• Post-print version with changes from referees comments can be used
• "as published" final version with layout and copy-editing changes cannot be archived but can be used on secure institutional intranet
• Must link to publisher version with DOI
• Publisher last contacted on 21/08/2019
• SAGE may give permission to deposit the Publisher's version/PDF on an unrestricted website of repository, upon request

Policy details

• SAGE and Open Access
• SAGEs Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines
• Posting to an Institutional Repository