RSM JOURNALS

A growing number of biomedical funding bodies now stipulate that articles arising from research they have funded must be deposited in a public repository.

Public repositories

Authors publishing with RSM Press can comply with their funding body’s policy through our optional open access service RSM Open. It allows authors to have their article fully open access in exchange for payment of a basic fee ('article processing charge').

RSM Open complies with all funding body mandates, for example: Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, Arthritis Research Campaign, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Chief Scientist Office, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, HHMI, and Cancer Research UK.

Central and institutional repositories

Subject to the conditions below, Royal Society of Medicine Press are willing for authors of accepted and published manuscripts to deposit copies of their articles into institutional repositories.

Conditions

Institutional repositories: Authors may upload both pre-prints and post-prints (as defined below) to their institution’s repository immediately after online publication.

Central repositories: Authors of papers that have not received public funding and have not entered into the 'RSM Open' programme may upload both pre-prints and post-prints (as defined below) to a central repository (e.g. PubMed Central) twelve months after online publication.

Acknowledgements: When depositing a manuscript in any repository, authors should include the relevant version of the paragraph below. This will guarantee that the definitive version is readily available to those accessing the article from a repository, and means that the article is more likely to be cited correctly.

Neither the publisher-produced PDF proof nor the published version of the article may be deposited.

Pre-print
[Full article citation, including DOI]
This is the original draft, prior to peer-review, of a manuscript published in [insert journal name]. The definitive version, detailed above, is available online at www.rsmjournals.com.

Post-print
[Full article citation, including DOI]
This is the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in [insert journal name]. The definitive version, detailed above, is available online at www.rsmjournals.com.

If you would like further information please rsmjournals{at}rsm.ac.uk.

Definitions
Pre-print
A pre-print is the original author-produced draft of an article as submitted for consideration for publication, and before any modifications arising from peer-review.

Post-print
A post-print is the final author-produced draft of an article as accepted for publication, including modifications based on referees’ suggestions. A post-print has not yet undergone copyediting, typesetting or proof correction.