Good morning, colleagues,

Happy Open Access Week! 

(Yes. It is Open Access Week).

If you're an ALJ contributor and are looking to take this year's celebrations beyond the usual riot of feasting and frenzied dancing, please consider depositing the "author's accepted manuscripts" of your articles in your local institutional repository.

CUP offers an enlightened policy for the ALJ: your IR can make your manuscript text open access as soon as the formal "version of record" appears online on the Cambridge Core platform. Which is great! 

The steps are easy.

1. As soon as your article is accepted for publication by Messrs. Foden-Lenahan, Grandal Montero and Binkowski, find your local repository and upload a copy of your "author's accepted manuscript." This is the final intellectual version, incorporating all revisions resulting from peer review or editorial comment, but before CUP has laid out or branded the text. (You're visual people: see below.)

    1.5. Unless you've arranged permissions to reproduce copyright-protected illustrations beyond the "version of record," you might replace them with DOI or other persistent open web links in your manuscript. 

2. Colleagues in your scholarly communications team will work their magic. They live for this moment.

3. Your work will be eligible for submission to the REF.

4. More importantly, readers with an internet connection anywhere in the world can benefit from your research.

Openly and accessibly yours,

Joseph