Open Access and Copyright Policies

Please refer to this spreadsheet for detailed policy statements. Journal Posting Policy Spreadsheet

GREEN OPEN ACCESS

1. Funder Compliant: UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR
We comply fully with the requirements of these funders by offering the Green Open Access option to those authors whose work has been funded by these sources.

Under this option, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence for release no later than the date of first online publication.

The accepted manuscript (also known as the ‘postprint’) is the version of the work that has been accepted by the journal following peer review and includes all amendments made during that process, but which has not yet been branded, typeset, or copyedited by the publisher in any way.

2. Self Archiving, Non-Funded Projects

Any author may post the post-refereed Accepted Manuscript version of their article in their Institutional Repository (only) with the appropriate acknowledgement with an embargo period on public access of 24 months from the date of official publication. They may do this upon acceptance of their mss but the institution may not provide public access until the embargo period has expired and when it does so, it must be under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence.

It is mandatory that the institution link to the Equinox site where the version of record resides on the Equinox site. Institutions are required to sign an agreement which we will supply at the request of the author. Under no circumstances may authors post the final PDF of the article but only the contributor’s accepted manuscript version and neither may they post the PDF on any public site.
Members of the U.K. Association for Buddhist Studies and others publishing articles in the society’s journal, Buddhist Studies Review, may chose to deposit their accepted manuscript in the UKABS repository. For details, contact the BSR editor Peter Harvey ([email protected]).

GOLD OPEN ACCESS

All Equinox journals also offer the GOLD option, whereby, subject to payment of an article processing fee and following normal peer review, their paper is published Open Access.
Equinox’s ‘gold’ (author/funder pays) option for publishing peer-reviewed articles on an open-access basis enables the final Version of Record of the article to be made open access on any site or shared without restriction.
Authors submit their article in the usual fashion to an appropriate Equinox journal. The paper is peer-reviewed in the normal way but once the article is accepted for publication, the author arranges for payment of the Article Processing Charge (APC). Some discounts are offered such as to authors whose institutions subscribe to Equinox journals.
Our preferred open access contributor agreements are based on the principles of the specific license proposed by the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

The author is asked to sign a Contributor agreement in which grants Equinox a license to publish the article as the final, definitive, and cite-able version of scholarly record. The license outlines the rights which Equinox intends to grant to end users and which spells out some restrictions on re-use such as:
– No commercial use
– No creation of derivative products
and some specific endorsed/permitted activity such as permission for text and data mining for scholarly and translation purposes
Authors may opt for publication under the more liberal Creative Commons license (‘CC BY’ license) permitting reuse of your work without prior permission with no restriction apart from the need to acknowledge original authorship. and no restrictions on commercial exploitation or remixing. We reserve the right to charge a higher APC (+ 25%) in such cases).

 

How much does it cost if I chose to publish my article under the Gold Option?

£1,250.00 – £1,750 per article (articles with colour images and/or larger formats are charged the higher fee and papers of longer than average extent compared to the usual for a particular journal may attract a higher rate).  Equinox book  authors, series editors, board members are eligible for a discount. Charges for articles to be published under the CC-BY option are 25% higher. Figures do not include VAT which will be charged where appropriate.

How do I pay?

Invoicing takes place on acceptance of the article after peer review. Payment can be made via credit card, or an invoice can be requested and is due upon publication. For any questions, please contact Ailsa Parkin, our Journal Services Manager at the time your paper is accepted.

Are any taxes applicable?

Authors resident in any of the countries of the European Union must add UK Value-Added Tax (VAT, currently 20%). Institutions outside the UK paying the fee on behalf of the author and who provide their VAT registration number will not be charged UK VAT.

Under what circumstances are refunds made?

If, before publication, we reasonably consider that the article should not be published, on the advice of our legal counsel, we may decline to publish the article, in which case we would refund the open access article publishing fee.

If, after publication, we reasonably consider that the article should be retracted or removed from our website, for example, because of a breach in author warranties, we may retract and withdraw it, and in such case will be under no obligation to refund the open access article publishing fee.

Are there discounts for Equinox Book Authors, Journal Editors or Board Members?

Authors or series editors of, or contributors to, Equinox books, or members of the editorial boards of any Equinox book series or journal are entitled to a discount of 35% on APCs . Eligible authors are those whose works are currently in print within the Equinox portfolio or whose works were originally published by Equinox.  Please contact us to make arrangements for the discount to be applied.

 Discounts for Institutional Partners

Institutional partners are those that have current subscriptions to Equinox journals valued at £600.00. Contributors based at such institutions are entitled to a 15% discount on the article publishing charge for their article, should they wish to publish on an open-access basis. For current subscriptions valued at less than £600, the discount will be 7.5%. Institutions with a direct subscription to any Equinox journal package will benefit from a further 5% discount. Articles by Equinox book authors or series editors, series board members, journal editors or journal board members from such institutions will qualify for their author discount of 35%. Thus an Equinox author whose institution takes one of our online journal packages would receive the maximum discount of 55%.

 How will Open Access Content Affect Subscription Prices?

This option was launched in 2013. We review the subscription prices of each journal annually to assess what degree of take-up the GOLD option has had among contributors and make an appropriate adjustment to each journal’s subscription price. The baseline prices were those set for the 2015 annual renewal cycle.

 Restrictions on Re-use?

Our  preferred open access contributor agreements are based on the principles of the specific license proposed by  the Creative Commons  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

This license does not allow the creation of derived works or the omission of passages  from a published work or changes to a published work such as the right to translate, adapt, abridge, produce ‘treatments’ based on the original, and so forth). The reason we  prefer this license is because we think  that unfettered reuse allowed under the ‘CC BY’ will lead to violation of an author’s moral rights and we believe commercial re-use should be licensed. Furthermore, where content in the article is identified as belonging to a third party, it is the obligation of the user to ensure that any reuse complies with copyright policies of the owner. As publisher, it is our role to make this clear to any potential licensee.  We do not believe that the market will ‘police itself’ in this respect.

However, as noted above, if your funder insists on the ‘CC BY’ license, we will accommodate you.

What if there are multiple or co-authors contributing to my article?

You must ensure that you have the consent of all co-authors to submit the article for publication and that you have the right to sign the agreement on their behalf. Should you opt for Aperto, all authors must agree and sign our Contributor Agreement, and at least one author will need to pay the publication fee.

What if my employer holds the copyright in my work?

Please contact us directly, as you may need to sign a separate form.

 What if I am a government employee?

Please contact us directly, as you may need to sign a separate form.

If you have any other queries about our open access policies, please contact us.