Open access

An increasing number of funding bodies are requiring grantees to make their papers freely available. IM Publications is pleased to support this “open access” publishing and all authors have the choice of publishing their paper as an open access paper for a one-off payment of £1250.

For this fee:

• The paper will be published, as usual, in the printed journal (marked as an open access paper).
• The paper will be included in the online edition, but with full, free access.
• The authors are granted the right to post a PDF of the final version on their websites.
• The authors are granted the right to include the final PDF version of their paper in institutional and other repositories.

Authors wishing to publish this way should wait until their paper has been accepted and then contact IM Publications requesting open access publishing. Please do not inform the Editor that you wish to publish an open access paper until you have received notification that it has been accepted; this is to avoid any possibility of bias. An invoice will be issued and on payment of this, the paper will be freely available online. The paper will receive the same careful copy editing and typesetting that IM Publications prides itself on.

Subscription rates

Institutional subscription rates will be adjusted according to the percentage of fully paid open access papers published in the previous year. When IM Publications decide on the institutional subscription rates for their journals, they will look at the number of open access papers published in the previous calendar year in a particular journal and adjust the institutional subscription rate accordingly. If the number is greater than the previous year, the institutional subscription rate will be reduced relative to the annual increase; if the number is less, it will be increased relative to the annual increase.

Submit your paper now

If you have a paper ready to submit, please use our online submission systems.

For EJMS—European Journal of Mass Spectrometry, go to www.impublications.com/eauthors/

For JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy or JSI—Journal of Spectral Imaging, go to www.impublications.com/authors/

If you are interested in writing for NIR news, please contact the Editor, Gerry Downey, by e-mail: gerard.downey@nirnews.com

Learn more about publishing in our journals

To find out about individual journal’s particular requirements, please visit the journal's home page:

• EJMS—European Journal of Mass Spectrometry
• JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy
• JSI—Journal of Spectral Imaging