Since January 2009, authors of accepted papers have the option to have their article made freely available online in final published form (’Open Access’). There is a charge for this which is payable to the London Mathematical Society. The option is available on the following LMS journals:
The following open access charges apply:
| Payments from outside the United Kingdom | £1,925 or $3,050 |
| Payments from the United Kingdom | £2,310 (which includes VAT at 20%) |
| NOTE: For payments from the UK, VAT will be charged at the rate prevalent at the time of payment. | |
For information about how to pay the charge, please write to production@lms.ac.uk immediately after sending in your signed Assignment of Copyright form (see the following paragraph).
Authors will be required to sign a standard LMS Assignment of Copyright form (see sample). This form allows authors to indicate their intention to publish under open access.
Users of articles published under open access will be required to agree to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Licence and will be entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display these articles provided that:
Users have unrestricted rights to re-use Open Access content for educational and research purposes (but not for commercial purposes).
Where an author has indicated on the Assignment of Copyright Form that he or she intends the paper to be published under open access, and provided that the appropriate charge has been paid, the paper will be published online and in print as other papers, except that:
The option for authors to submit for publication under open access may be withdrawn by the Society at any time.
| Editorial Control: production@lms.ac.uk Last revised: Thursday 21 July 2011 |