Sage has an agreement with Manipal Academy of Higher Education to publish articles open access. The agreement for participating organizations will run from April 01, 2024, through to March 31, 2029. The details of the agreement are as follows:
To qualify for the agreement, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Manipal Academy of Higher Education and have an article accepted for publication between April 01, 2024, and March 31, 2029.
Subscription journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in 900+ subscription journals in the current year’s Sage Premier package, as well as in the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection which offer hybrid open access publishing (Sage Choice), can be published open access, free of charge. Charges other than the author article processing charge (APC) may still apply, please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.
Authors do not need to take any action to benefit from this offer. Sage will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the agreement and invite them to the Sage Open Access Portal to take up the offer as soon as their accepted article has been received into Sage’s Production department.
Gold open access journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in a Gold open access journal are entitled to a 30% discount on the prevailing article processing charge (APC) for that journal. For participating journals view the Gold journal title list. This discount will be applied automatically in the Sage Open Access Portal. Where an author is eligible for more than one discount, discounts cannot be combined but the highest discount available to the author will be applied to the APC due.
The corresponding author must be affiliated with a member institution participating in the license agreement for their article to qualify for the article processing charge (APC) discount.
Authors do not need to take any action to benefit from this offer. Sage will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the agreement and invite them to the Sage Open Access Portal to take up the offer as soon as their accepted article has been received into Sage’s Production department.