This form allows you to order open access for an article that has already been published. By opting for open access, your article will become freely available to all readers worldwide. It will also be automatically sent to PubMed Central and Europe PubMed Central if the article meets the PMC deposition guidelines; full details of our deposition policies are found under the “Self-archiving, manuscript deposition, and digital preservation” information on the Open Access Journal policies page.
Please note that not all article types are eligible for Open Access, and the eligible article types differ between journal. If your article type is not primary research, please visit the publishing model information on the relevant journal's page to determine if your article type is eligible.
Also note that articles published Open Access retrospectively are not eligible for Transformative Agreements.
After submitting the form below, you may choose to receive an Open Access License to Publish (OA LtP) Form that needs to be signed and returned, but please be aware that resigning your Licence to Publish is no longer required. If you order open access for your article, you will be charged an article-processing charge (APC). The invoice will be sent to you after the license to publish document has been returned.
We will update the metadata and full text of the original article, which means that copyright, license and open access information in the article will be updated.
Please note that it is not possible to cancel this order and ensure you read our Retrospective open access for transformative and hybrid journals policy (under the 'Other OA policies' section) before submitting your request.
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