Open access policy

Moduli is a fully Gold Open Access journal.

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, under a Creative Commons license, upon publication.

Moduli 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.

Supporting Gold Open Access publication in Moduli

All articles in Moduli are free to access, but the journal does incur real costs for its peer review, typesetting and online distribution. In order for Moduli to be sustainable in the long-term, these costs must be covered.

If the Corresponding Author’s institution has a Transformative Agreement with Cambridge University Press (you may check here), this agreement will cover the costs of publishing your article.

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 paper is not eligible for free Gold Open Access publication via a Transformative Agreement or through the COEI, the publication of your article will still be free of charge thanks to a special arrangement during the launch period of Moduli.  

In the longer term, an Article Publication Charge (APC) will be introduced to cover the costs of publishing articles which are not eligible for free Gold Open Access publication via a Transformative Agreement or through the COEI. However, the journal’s policy will be that no author will be obliged to pay an APC if no direct funding is available to them. The costs of publishing these papers will be met collectively by other researchers who have access to funding arrangements.

The Foundation greatly appreciates the support of authors who make use of Transformative Agreements to cover the costs of publication and make publication in Moduli accessible to others.

Green Open Access (self-archiving)

What is Green Open Access?

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

Choosing Green Open Access

Authors may deposit the Version of Record of Moduli articles on the arXiv or similar non-commercial preprint servers, their personal web page, their departmental or institutional repository. Moduli authors are not required to wait an embargo period before they can deposit their article.

When sharing the Version of Record of the article, the licence should not be changed to a less restrictive licence. For example, a Moduli 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 the Moduli website.