Open Access

Authors may opt to publish their research under an open access license in any of the AACR hybrid journals. The hybrid AACR journals include: Blood Cancer Discovery; Cancer Discovery; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Cancer Research; Cancer Immunology Research; Cancer Prevention Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Research; and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Selection of open access in any one of these journals permits immediate access to the typeset version of record published in the online journal. Details on open access fees are available in the Publication Fees section.

Publishing your research as open access in any of these titles will be covered by one of the following Creative Commons licenses:

• CC BY-NC-ND—This license permits free access and redistribution and noncommercial use with proper attribution.
• CC BY—This license permits free access, redistribution, commercial use, and derivative works with proper attribution.

For information about different Creative Commons licenses, please see this page at creativecommons.org.

All articles published in the AACR’s open access journal, Cancer Research Communications, are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license.

Free Access and Article Archiving

The AACR provides many countries in the developing world with immediate free access to all AACR journals through the HINARI program. Select content will sometimes be made freely available immediately upon publication.

All articles published under an open access license in AACR journals are immediately freely available online and automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC in final typeset form with no embargo period. The typeset article will be transmitted to PMC when the final version is published online and will be available in PMC and Europe PMC when they complete processing of the transmitted materials.

For authors publishing under standard copyright, the AACR can assist them in meeting those funders' archiving mandates that require deposition in PMC or Europe PMC six months or more after publication. Authors are NOT asked to provide funding information or choose a deposition option at initial submission. When submitting a revised version of their manuscript after Provisional Acceptance, the corresponding author is asked to indicate whether the accepted version of their manuscript should be deposited in PMC or Europe PMC on their behalf, or if they will instead deposit the accepted version themselves. If the author chooses to have the AACR deposit the manuscript for them, the accepted version of the manuscript will be uploaded to the repository upon acceptance, with a release date of 6 months after date of issue publication. Authors will be contacted by the repository for approval of the submission.

It is important to note that, although the AACR will deposit the accepted author manuscript at PMC or Europe PMC upon request at the time of manuscript acceptance, it is the author's responsibility to follow up with the repository to ensure that the content is received and released within the funder's specified timeframe. Authors whose funders require deposition and release less than 6 months from the date of issue publication (for example authors with a cOAlition S funder) and who are not publishing their manuscript in AACR's fully open access journal, Cancer Research Communications, must make the deposit arrangements in the appropriate repository themselves, with the appropriate release date no earlier than the date of issue publication in the journal. For information about AACR policies on institutional repositories and preprint servers, please see Online Postings.

The AACR journals comply fully with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, these authors may self-archive their author accepted manuscript (AAM) in an institutional and/or subject-based repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a self-attributed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license for release on the date of first online publication of the article as a Version of Record.

Please note that the article PMCID number is assigned and provided by NIHMS and Europe PMC and that the AACR journals are unable to assign or provide these numbers to authors. Authors who have questions about their PMCID number should contact the corresponding repository directly at www.nihms.nih.gov or europepmc.org.

AACR uses CLOCKSS to archive all published content of the journals at a separate location from the primary journal archive. This ensures that all materials are archived and accessible in perpetuity.