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The Foundation Compositio Mathematica supports the transition to Open Access and is committed to helping all authors of accepted papers to publish in accordance with their funder requirements.

Many funders and institutions have stated policies on Open Access, and we advise that authors check what is required of them.

Compositio Mathematica offers both Gold and Green Open Access options for publication. If you are not required to publish on a Gold Open Access basis, then you may choose to publish your paper with traditional subscription access.

Gold Open Access

What is Gold Open Access?

Gold Open Access means that the final, typeset Version of Record of the paper will immediately be freely available, with a Creative Commons license, upon publication.

The Foundation offers all authors the option to publish their Compositio Mathematica papers on a Gold Open Access basis.

When publishing on a Gold Open Access basis, authors must choose one of the following Creative Commons licences for their paper. Please note that your funder or institution may require you to use a specific licence.

CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License)

Allows users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the article providing that the author is attributed and the article is not used for commercial purposes.

CC-BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International License)

Allows users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the article providing that the author is attributed. The CC BY license permits both commercial and non-commercial reuse.

Choosing Gold Open Access

If the Corresponding Author’s institution has a Transformative Agreement with Cambridge University Press (you may check here), then you may publish your paper on a Gold Open Access basis at no charge.

If the paper is not eligible for free Gold Open Access publication via a Transformative Agreement (see above), authors may still publish on a Gold Open Access basis by choosing to pay the Article Publication Charge (APC).

The Cambridge Open Equity Initiative (COEI) also funds Gold Open Access publication for Corresponding Authors from over 100 low- and middle-income countries. Eligibility is automatically established during the publication process.

If your funder requires that your paper be published on a Gold Open Access basis, but the Corresponding Author is not eligible for a Transformative Agreement and you have no access to funds to pay for an APC (e.g. from your research grant or institution), then please contact compmath@lms.ac.uk. The Foundation will then ensure that your article can be published in the journal.

Green Open Access (self-archiving)

What is Green Open Access?

Green Open Access is when authors choose to a version of their manuscript on a preprint server, personal website, or non-commercial or institutional repository.

Choosing Green Open Access

For Compositio Mathematica articles published on a subscription basis, authors may put their accepted PDF manuscript immediately on the arXiv or similar non-commercial preprint servers, their personal web page, their departmental or institutional repository. Compositio Mathematica authors are not required to wait an embargo period before they can deposit their article. The accepted manuscript should only be shared using a CC-BY-NC-ND license or the arXiv non-exclusive license to distribute.

For Compositio Mathematica articles published on a Gold Open Access basis, the final typeset, Version of Record of the article may be deposited instead of the authors accepted version. For the avoidance of doubt, it is not permitted to make the Version of Record publicly available unless the authors have opted for Gold Open Access publication. When sharing the Version of Record of the article, the licence should not be changed to a less restrictive licence. For example, a Compositio Mathematica article published with an CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence, should not be shared on the arXiv with a CC-BY 4.0 licence.

Authors should add a direct link from the arXiv, preprint server or repository to the Version of Record of the paper on Compositio Mathematica website.

For questions about this Green Open Access policy, please contact compmath@lms.ac.uk.

Social Sharing

This journal participates in Cambridge Core Share, an initiative that allows a read-only version of a final published PDF (the Version of Record) to be shared and easily accessed by anyone. Core Share links, and Core Share PDFs containing the links, can be freely shared on social media sites and scholarly collaboration networks to enhance both the impact and discoverability of research.

Preprint policy

A preprint is an early version of an article prior to the version accepted for publication in a journal. This journal allows preprints to be posted anywhere at any time, including before submission to the journal. For more information, see the Cambridge University Press preprint policy.