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Palgrave Macmillan offers a free support service to make it easier for our authors to discover and apply for APC funding. We can:

Publishing my article with Palgrave Communications • Provide personal information on the open access funds available to you. was a terrific experience. Being a broad-interest • Direct you to the correct open access funding coordinator at your institution/ Offering authors the option to publish open access research across a journal, my article was seen by scholars outside my funding body. variety of formats including, journal articles, and Palgrave immediate discipline as well as people outside the • Provide advice about compliance with funders’ and institutions’ open access policies. Pivot publications ensuring your research is made freely available to academy, an increasingly important factor these • Supply you with the information and advice required to complete an open access the widest audience possible. days and a very attractive aspect for me. funding application. Professor Mark D. White, A number of research funders and institutions now make funding available to support OA College of Staten Island / CUNY, US monographs. The funding support service can provide personal advice on what OA funding is available to you. Working with Palgrave Communications exposes As authors exploring interdisciplinarity in one to high quality, topical, interdisciplinary, and There are over 150 journal open access article processing charge (APC) funds available to the making, the ease and rapidity with which HSS researchers world wide. most importantly, accessible research. Helping we could publish open access in Palgrave with the Global Governance collection as an Communications allowed us to unfurl our associate editor and a reviewer has been very ideas and methods, to a wide community of Europe: beneficial. The process is professional, well guided 93 other scholars and practitioners, actually as by the managing editor, and the published work is they are taking form. USA: of the highest quality. 53 Asia: 1 Dr Felicity Callard, Dr. Nick Anguelov, Durham University, UK University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, US

Australia: For anyone working in a cross-disciplinary, 4 Visit the website at www.palgrave- policy-relevant field, Palgrave Communications journals.com/palcomms to access: is an ideal open access platform from which to engage fellow scholars, and also the wider • Published research worlds of policy and practice. OPEN ACCESS GLOSSARY • Information on the Editorial Board Professor James Wilsdon, Gold open access - articles freely • Subject areas covered University of Sheffield and Chair of the For open access , pivots, journals available immediately upon publication • Author instructions Campaign for Social Science, UK and funding enquiries email: on publisher’s website - no embargo • E-alert sign-up period. APC applicable* My experience of working with Palgrave [email protected] To speak to the editorial team email: Communications has been great; very Green open access – articles are made Or visit: www.palgrave.com/open [email protected] efficient and well organised. It provides available by archiving in an institutional an excellent platform for new work with or subject repository - embargo period Follow us on Twitter: @PalCommsOA a professional, robust set of procedures For office locations and further may apply, depending on the publisher’s self-archiving policy. leading to speedy publication following a contact information visit: rigorous review process. * www.palgrave.com/gb/ Article Processing Charge (APC) – a Professor Kath Woodward about-us/office-locations fee that is charged to authors in order Open University, UK to publish an article in an open access . This fee covers the costs associated with the process. ABOUT PALGRAVE OPEN Open access timeline at Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan offers open access options for authors across a variety of formats including, journal June 2011 Palgrave Macmillan took the articles, books/monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications (mid-form monographs) via Palgrave Open. lead in offering open access across 18 of Launched in 2015, Palgrave Communications is an open access online-only journal dedicated to As an active participant in the development of sustainable models for open access across the humanities its academic journals. Today, the portfolio publishing high-quality original research. The scope of the journal reflects Palgrave Macmillan’s and social sciences, Palgrave Macmillan was one of the first publishers to offer an open access option has now expanded to includes over 40 strengths in the humanities, the social sciences and business studies. across these disciplines. journals with the open access option. Article types Editorial Board

January 2013 In addition to publishing original research, The Editorial Board comprises distinguished academics Why publish open access? November 2013 The open access option reviews, and comments across 30+ and researchers from a wide spectrum of fields. The first open access was expanded to include disciplines within the humanities, social This broad representation and deep expertise helps Global readership and copyright retention monograph was published. monographs and Palgrave sciences and business studies, the journal ensure that Palgrave Communications meets and Readers worldwide can share and reuse articles published open access using the Creative Pivots. This was made regularly features thematic collections reacts to the varying needs of these communities. * Commons Attribution (CCBY) license , ensuring maximum reuse as well as enabling possible through a books covering hot and emerging areas of debate The Editorial Board includes a panel of Associate authors to retain copyright for their work. processing charge, which is and research identified by members of its Editors who have responsibility for overseeing the July 2014 The first usually paid for by research esteemed editorial board. These collections peer review of manuscripts and recommending final ‘hybrid’ open access Professional and rigorous peer-review process funders. The default license are guest-edited by experts and provide a decisions following assessment. The Managing Editor, chapter was published. forum for current thinking in the field. in consultation with the Editorial Board, guides the The opportunity to publish via Palgrave Open is only offered to authors whose articles for our open access books is CC-BY, but development, policies, standards and editorial scope have already been accepted for publication. All open access content published adheres to other licenses are available on request. of Palgrave Communications. the high standards expected of all Palgrave Macmillan publications. They undergo the same October 2014 The first open access rigorous peer-review process, copyediting and proofreading services as all our titles. Palgrave Pivot was published. January 2015 Palgrave Communications, the first fully open access multidisciplinary Why choose Palgrave Communications for your research: Increased visibility and discoverability of research, and increasing interdisciplinary journal was launched. Quality: Reflecting its breadth of coverage, the Improved HTML full-text article view: In conversation journal is supported by a large, international, cross- addition to PDF availability, the layout and Palgrave Open articles are made freely available online via Palgrave-journals.com and Benefits of publishing your next open access disciplinary Editorial Board of leading researchers. navigation of online articles in HTML allows can be downloaded, reused, reprinted and distributed, thus increasing the visibility of with Palgrave Macmillan: for an improved incorporation and display of research. Furthermore, studies** have shown that research published open access is Peer review: Our in-house editorial team, led by references, figures and tables, video, multimedia viewed more than work only available to subscribers, and is cited more often. • All our open access books adhere to the rigorous peer review the Managing Editor oversees the editorial and and supplementary information. process Palgrave Macmillan is renowned for. peer-review process, guided by the Editorial Board, and our selected reviewers. Article level metrics: Using .com, Efficient, online submission and tracking • As with journal articles all open access book content is made freely available immediately on publication. readership data and citation information, authors We are committed to providing an efficient service for both authors and readers, and High quality copy editing and typesetting: can see how their research is being used and have developed advanced online systems to facilitate rapid peer-review and publication • Print copies are available on demand for those who wish Production values that you would expect from commented on across the scholarly literature, of research. With the support of teams of internal editors, and a large network of to purchase the research in hardcopy. award-winning Palgrave Macmillan. the wider internet and social networks. reviewers, we ensure manuscripts are processed for publication as quickly as possible and that authors get the support and information they need throughout the process. Palgrave have done a great job of showing that [the book Speed: Online-only offers author a continuous No format limits: No word limits, colour or is open access] clearly in the catalogue text and when and faster publication format. figure charges. Compliance with funder mandates distributing to bookshops. It’s not half-hearted open-access- Publishing open access via Palgrave Open supports compliance with worldwiders funders’ but-don’t-tell-too-many-people-about-it, Palgrave is Commitment to interdisciplinary research open access policies, including those of RCUK and Wellcome Trust. unabashedly proud to be publishing an open access book. Interdisciplinary research is increasingly considered crucial in seeking out solutions to global social, Jill Walker Rettberg environmental and economic challenges. As well as being a multi-disciplinary journal, Palgrave Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen Communications is dedicated to providing a forum for the publication of interdisciplinary research.

*Preferred by many research funding bodies, the CCBY licence allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work as long as the original work is correctly cited. Palgrave Macmillan was the first humanities and social science publisher to offer this licence across all Visit the website and sign up for e-alerts to keep up-to-date the latest articles and publication formats. **Research Information network 2014 www.palgrave.com/open article collections as they are published www.palgrave-journals.com/palcomms