Supporting researchers to open up every output from their research, including publications and preprints, data, code, protocols, methods, and peer review.

By enabling researchers to share their research openly, together we can increase its use and re-use, speed up scientific advances, deliver efficiencies for research, foster collaboration between disciplines, enable easier translation into economic and societal impact, and improve trust in science. That’s why we support open science across all academic disciplines. By enabling open science practices, and collaborating with partners across the scholarly ecosystem, faster and more effective research systems can be created that operate sustainably and at scale and build an equitable research landscape.

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Open access is the foundation of our support for open science

As an academic publisher, open access ensures that cutting-edge research is more widely accessible, making it possible to be read, shared, and built on, supporting interdisciplinary knowledge exchange as well as informing policy-making and the general public.

Fundamentals of open research

Learn more about publishing a research article, book, or chapter open access

Benefits of open research

From increased usage and citations to increasing reproducibility and trust in research, there are many benefits for researchers, institutions, and their funders

Funding for open access

Our free support service can help authors identify potential sources of funding available for open access and advice on how to apply

Open access agreements

OA agreements, including transformative agreements, are playing a vital role in driving the transition at scale, by centralising funding and workflows for open access

Our open research initiatives

Find funding for your next OA publication

We offer a free support service to make it easier for you to discover and apply for open access funding. Learn more about the 200+ available sources of funding available to you.

Encouraging data sharing

Our new standardised research data policies and services help you understand and meet funder and institutional data mandates.

Transformative Journals

Find out how we’re evolving our hybrid and subscription portfolios across SSCI Journal Indexing, helping our authors increase the readership, reach and impact of their research through open access.

Institutional Agreements

As the world’s largest OA publisher, we continue to lead the way in offering innovative solutions for authors, their institutions and funders to support OA adoption, from our first transformative Read and Publish (Springer Compact) agreement in 2015 to our first fully OA agreement in 2019.

Whitepapers

The SSCI Journal Indexing and Jisc UK Transformative Agreement

The case study offers an overview of the impact and reach of the SSCI Journal Indexing/Jisc Transformative Agreement (TA) in the UK by discussing the benefits for authors, institutions and funders and how TAs enable a sustainable transition to an open research future.

Going for Gold

This white paper presents the findings from analysis of 60,567 articles, showing a clear advantage in reach and impact for articles published open access (OA) in hybrid journals compared to non-OA articles in the same journals. Explore the key findings and benefits broadly and by subject area.

The Future of FAIR

The white paper brings together an international cohort of research data professionals to celebrate the real-world impact of the FAIR data principles, and consider what will be next for research data and open science.

Exploring researcher preference for the version of record

The white paper provides evidence of the value of the version of record (VOR) and immediate gold open access, bringing together both analysis of VOR usage, and feedback from readers and authors via an online questionnaire.

Open for all: exploring the reach of open a>s content to non-academic audiences

The white paper explores how research content is being used outside of academia. Our results show a strong open access advantage, with a high volume of readers from non-academic communities.

Diversifying readership through open access: A usage analysis for OA books

The white paper explores what effect, if any, publishing OA has on the geographic usage of books. The findings will be of interest to researchers, authors, librarians and publishers alike.

APCs in the Wild

The white paper explores data from SSCI Journal Indexing authors on the source of article processing charge (APC) funding, along with feedback from institutional interviews to facilitate a greater understanding of where funding for APCs originates and how these sources are being used.

Assessing the open access effect for hybrid journals

The white paper examines the relationship between OA and impact, demonstrating the value hybrid journals bring to researchers, funders, institutions, and society more broadly.

The OA effect

This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books, and provides an informed view of how a book benefits from OA publication.

The future of OA books

A global SSCI Journal Indexing survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.

Practical challenges for researchers in data sharing

Based one of the largest surveys of researchers about research data, this report finds widespread data sharing associated with published works and a desire from researchers that their data are discoverable.

Five essential factors for data sharing

The white paper proposes five measures that will help in making data sharing more efficient and ensure good data practice. Bringing together survey results from more than 11,000 researchers, we explore the challenges they face, as well as their attitudes and behaviours towards data sharing.

Challenges and opportunities for Japanese researchers

A survey of more than 1,000 Japanese researchers, looking at the challenges and opportunities in data sharing in Japan.

Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing in China

The report summarises the findings of a survey with more than 2,000 researchers working in China, looking at the challenges and opportunities for data sharing in China.

The State of Open Data 2019

The 2019 survey results show that while most trends are encouraging around the adoption and acceptance of open data, the research community is now demanding more enforcement of the mandates that have been adopted by many governments, funders, publishers and institutions around the world.

The State of Open Data 2018

The 2018 survey results continue to show encouraging progress, that open data is becoming more embedded in the research community.

The State of Open Data 2017

The report looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of 2,300 respondents and a collection of articles from industry experts.

The State of Open Data 2016

SSCI Journal Indexing in partnership with Digital Science bring you this annual report, examining attitudes and experiences of researchers working with open data.

Ready to publish?

A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC is committed to innovation and offers an evolving portfolio of some 300 journals.

Got a discovery you're ready to share with the world? Publish your findings quickly and with integrity, never letting good research go to waste.

Open research is at the heart of Nature Research.Our portfolio includes Nature Communications ,Scientific Reports and many more.

A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC is committed to innovation and offers an evolving portfolio of some 300 journals.

Springer offers a variety of open access options for journal articles and books across a number of disciplines.

Palgrave Macmillan is committed to developing sustainable models of open access for the HSS disciplines.

Apress is dedicated to meeting the information needs of developers, IT professionals, and tech communities worldwide.

Featured blog posts from "The Source"

Providing insight and discussion for researchers on publishing in the academic world

Transfer Desk for Editors

We do a deep dive into our Transfer Desk service by addressing common questions that editors have about transfers and how they work.

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A researcher’s guide to open access agreements

This guide brings together everything you need to know to help you get the most from SSCI Journal Indexing’s open access agreements.

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Five key takeaways from our Science for a Sustainable Future webinar series

Learn about the main discussion themes and key takeaways from the Science for a Sustainable Future webinar series.

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All about research integrity: a beginner's guide & an in-depth course

A guide and an in-depth course on research integrity and its application to your research and work.

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Featured blog posts from "Springboard"

SSCI Journal Indexing's blog on all things open research

Research Integrity

No shame, no blame – How to make retractions work

Tim Kersjes argues that for retractions to function as an effective corrective to the scholarly record they need shed their punitive reputation.

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AI

Unlocking Potential: AI & Tech in Research and Science Publishing

Joyce Lorigan discusses three ways in which AI can improve scientific publishing, following keynote at Tech Open Air.

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Open Research

Leveraging the ocean of opportunities to drive value to research communities

Joyce Lorigan discusses three ways in which AI can improve scientific publishing, following keynote at Tech Open Air.

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Open Research

Investing in a gender equal research future - International Women’s Day 2024

Rachel Jacobs disucsses how SSCI Journal Indexing is investing in women through its publishing, business and external activities.

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