We publish Gold OA journals and books, working with publishing partners to develop OA for different communities. We also support social sharing and Green OA (also called Green archiving) across our journals and books programmes, allowing authors to deposit content in repositories and commercial social sharing sites.

Gold Open Access content is published under a Creative Commons license, allowing free access and redistribution and, in many cases, allows re-use in new or derivative works. Typically, Gold OA content is supported by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid by the author or their funder. We also publish Gold OA content that is supported by other financial models, particularly in humanities and social sciences.

Hybrid journals are subscription journals that offer authors the choice of paying an APC to publish their articles as Gold OA.

• Find out more about our OA journals
• Find out more about our OA books
• Find out more about our OA Elements

Green Open Access (also known as Green archiving) is the practice of making a version of a work freely accessible in an institutional or subject archive or some other document repository. Typically the author’s original (submitted) manuscript is made available, or the manuscript as it was accepted for publication after peer-review changes have been made. For some types of books, a portion of the final published version can also be made available. Click here to read our Green OA Policies.

Social sharing is similar to Green OA except that documents are typically shared in a commercial sharing site or scholarly collaboration network site, rather than an institutional repository. See our social sharing page for more information. Our Green OA policies include provisions for social sharing and Cambridge Core Share  also provides a means for sharing the published versions of journal articles.