Publishing options
MRS Online Proceedings Library is a hybrid open access journal. Once the article is accepted for
publication, authors will have the option to choose how their article is published:
- Traditional publishing model – published articles are made available to institutions
and individuals who subscribe to MRS Online Proceedings Library or who pay to read specific
articles. - Open Access – when an article is accepted for publication, the author/s or funder/s
pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). The final version of the published article is then
free to read for everyone.
Authors may need to take specific actions to achieve compliance
with funder and institutional open access mandates.
If your research is supported by a funder that requires immediate open access (e.g. according to Plan S principles)
then you should select the gold OA route, and we will direct you to the compliant route where
possible.
For authors selecting the subscription publication route, the journal’s standard licensing terms
will need to be accepted, including self-archiving
policies.
Those licensing terms will supersede any other terms that the author or any third party may assert
apply to any version of the manuscript.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your
work:
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Cited more
1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
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Downloaded more
4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
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Greater impact
2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy
mentions
Find out
more about benefits of open
access.
Publication fees
For information about any relevant fees for publishing in MRS Online Proceedings Library, please check the
journal homepage or contact the Open Research Support team (ORSupport@springernature.com).
Visit our open access support
portal for further information.
Creative Commons licences
Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles.
MRS Online Proceedings Library articles are published open access under a CC BY licence (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence). CC BY articles may be shared and adapted for any purpose, including commercially, so long as the authors are credited.
You may also wish to find out about licence variations that are available to meet funder and institutional OA licence requirements. Learn more in our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights for journal articles.