How to publish with us
Publishing options
All articles published by Living Reviews in Solar Physics are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work:
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Cited more
1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
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Downloaded more
4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
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Greater impact
2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions
Open access also enables compliance with many major funder policies internationally. Find out more about benefits of open access.
Publication fees
For information about any relevant fees for publishing in Living Reviews in Solar Physics, please check the journal homepage or contact the Open Research Support team (ORSupport@springernature.com).
Visit our open access support portal for further information.
Creative Commons licences
Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence) or CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence) licence.
- CC BY-NC-ND: The article can be shared for non-commercial purposes as long as the authors are credited. Permission is needed for commercial re-use or sharing adapted and derivative versions.
- CC BY: The article may be shared and adapted for any purpose, including commercially, so long as the authors are credited.
You may also wish to find out about licence variations that are available to meet funder and institutional OA licence requirements. Learn more in our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights for journal articles.