Table 3

Open access policies of journals with high impact factors that offer immediate open access with the CC BY licence (n=21)

Publisher	Organisation status	Journals included (n=21)	Open access variants available*			Funding requirements for obtaining open access with a CC BY licence
			Embargo period†	Creative commons licence	Version of article available
American Association for the Advancement of Science	Non-profit society	Science; Sci Transl Med	None	CC BY	VoR	The american association for the advancement of science ‘will allow authors funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to publish their research with a CC BY licence’‡
			None	None	Accepted
			6 months	None	Accepted
			12 months	None	VoR
American Society of Clinical Oncology	Non-profit society	J Clin Oncol	None	CC BY CC BY-NC-ND	VoR	Creative commons licences available only if funders are ‘academical institutions, not-for-profit organisations, philanthropical foundations or government agencies’
			6 months	None	VoR
			12 months	None	VoR
BMJ Publishing Group	Non-profit society	BMJ	None	CC BY CC BY-NC	VoR	CC BY licence available for authors ‘where the funder requires it’
Cell Press	Commercial	Cancer Cell; Cell; Cell Metab; Cell Stem Cell; Immunity	None	CC BY CC BY-NC-ND	VoR	Creative commons licences ‘available only to authors covered by a funding body agreement’ (these non-commercial funding bodies are listed on the journal websites)
Cell Press			12 months	None	Accepted
Elsevier	Commercial	Eur Urol; Gastroenterology; J Am Coll Cardiol; Lancet; Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol; Lancet Infect Dis; Lancet Oncol; Lancet Neurol; Lancet Respir Med	None	CC BY CC BY-NC-ND	VoR Accepted§/VoR	Creative commons licences are available to authors funded by specific funding bodies (these non-commercial funding bodies are listed on the journal websites) Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish in Elsevier journals to comply with manuscript archiving requirements of various funding bodies (these non-commercial funding bodies are listed on the journal websites)
Elsevier			6 months	None	VoR
European Society of Cardiology	Non-profit society	Eur Heart J	None	CC BY CC BY-NC CC BY-NC-ND	VoR	‘RCUK/Wellcome Trust-funded authors…can use the CC BY licence for their articles’
			None	None	Accepted
			12 months	None	Accepted
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins	Commercial	Circulation	None	CC BY CC BY-NC CC BY-NC-ND	VoR	“Note that authors funded by RCUK or the Wellcome Trust may choose the CC BY licence if they agree to pay the article processing charge and commercial reuse of the article is not a factor’
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins		Circulation	6–12 months	None	Accepted
Wiley-Blackwell	Commercial	CA Cancer J Clin	None	CC BY CC BY-NC CC BY-NC-ND	VoR	‘All RCUK and Wellcome Trust-funded authors will be directed to the CC BY licence’
Wiley-Blackwell		CA Cancer J Clin	12–24 months	None	Accepted

CC BY, Creative Commons Attribution; NC, Non-Commercial; ND, No Derivatives; RCUK, Research Councils UK; VoR, version of record.
*Available under the terms specified on the journal website.
†None = immediate open access; >0 months = delayed open access.
‡The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s pilot open access partnership with the Gates Foundation concluded on 30 June 2018.39
§Accepted manuscripts can be self-archived and are required to attach a CC BY-NC-ND licence.25