The options that are available vary depending on the article type your article belongs to. If your accepted article is one of these article types, you will not have an option to order Open Access via the Rights and Access form.This is due to the policies of individual Funding Bodies concerning these non-peer-reviewed article types.

• Discussion
• Correspondence
• Editorial

If your article is not one of these article types, but you still don't have an option to order Open Access, it may be because:

• the journal does not support Open Access
• the journal only supports Open Access for funded papers (please contact us via one of the options below if you think this might be the case, and we'll check for you)
• that article has already been published and it is impossible to make it Open Access retrospectively.
• The journal is subscription and the option to publish gold open access was available for you in a mirror journal. Please check the list of mirror journals and also read more about mirror journals.

To find out more about Open Access and Funding Body Agreements, please click here.

Still have a question? We can help! When contacting us via the Chat option at the right bottom of this page, please just enter your details, and select contact reason 'Open Access' in the drop down on the form, to start a session with one of our representatives. We appreciate you providing us all the information, as much as possible when initiating the chat. This will ensure our agents to swiftly respond to your query.