Open Access and APCs
Third-party content in Open Access papers
Author self-archiving policies
Open Access
All articles published in our journal are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the many services we provide in promoting reproducible, data-centric research dissemination.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
- Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) - Data Notes, Technical Notes, Research, Reviews - $2,512
- Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) - Commentaries - $1,245
This includes 1TB of data hosting in our GigaDB repository, and please contact the editors at editorial@gigasciencejournal.com if you require more.
Corresponding authors based in countries and regions, that are part of the developing countries initiative are eligible for a full waiver of publishing fees in our fully open access journals. For further details, please see our APC Waiver Policy.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Note that after a manuscript is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be required to confirm this and complete a mandatory license to publish form. Please sign the form promptly so as not to delay publication. GigaScience authors retain the copyright to their work.
GigaScience uses the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license as standard, which formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles. All textual content associated with the journal, including our open peer-reviews, and blog articles covering our work, also are published under this standard CC BY 4.0. Where an author is prevented from being the copyright holder (for instance in the case of US government employees or those of Commonwealth governments), minor variations may be required. In such cases the copyright line and license statement in individual articles will be adjusted, for example to state ‘© 2017 Crown copyright’. Authors requiring a variation of this type should inform GigaScience during or immediately after submission of their article.
In addition to our copyright policy, we also follow a strict Open Data Policy, and the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication waiver applies to all published data in this journal. All associated published software needs to be under an Open Source Initiative approved license where practicable compiled running software is made available. This website's content and logo has been published under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license.
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GigaScience endorses and promotes more rapid “open science” mechanisms for disseminating research. Specifically, we feel that the Ingelfinger Rule, which discourages discussion of manuscripts ahead of formal publication, hinders scientific discourse and slows the pace of discovery. Prior to formal publication, authors are encouraged to present their findings and data to their peers, including at meetings and conferences; to deposit copies of their manuscript in open-access repositories, or to make the manuscript available via their website; and to blog and discuss their findings on social media, wikis and electronic lab notebooks. As long as it is clear what is and isn’t peer-reviewed, and copyright and attribution norms are followed, none of these activities will affect consideration of a manuscript by GigaScience. For more on our policies and practices see our Editorial covering our open science efforts and milestones over our first decade.
Third-party content in Open Access papers
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Author self-archiving policies
Preprint availability also reduces the delay between discovery and dissemination of results, and we strongly recommend the use of community preprint servers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, and the many OSF Preprint servers. We encourage the citation of preprints where appropriate in the reference list, and will not consider them in the evaluation of the conceptual advance of a manuscript submitted for publication.
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