Open access and subscriber-only articles

Most journals publish everything open access: anyone can read and download the full text. Journals with print subscribers or society members can keep some articles for those readers.

Who can read what

• Everyone, always: the title, authors, abstract, keywords, citation and DOI. Indexes and search engines see these too.
• Subscriber-only full text: readers you list under Journal settings → Reader access, your editorial team, and the article's authors.

Make an article subscriber-only

1. Open the article in Production.
2. Under Who can read the full text, choose Subscribers only.
3. Optionally set Free to read from: on that date the article opens to everyone automatically.

To make new articles start as subscriber-only, choose it under Journal settings → Reader access → New articles.

Add your subscribers

Under Journal settings → Reader access, paste their email addresses (one per line), with an optional end date and a note such as an invoice number. Readers sign in on the journal site with that email address, once they have confirmed it, and read the full text. When the end date passes, access stops.

Readers without access see Full text for subscribers, with Log in to read and Ask the journal for access (it emails your journal's contact address).

Good to know

• DOAJ lists only journals whose articles are all free to read. The indexing checklist shows how many articles are subscriber-only.
• An open Creative Commons licence lets anyone share the article. For subscriber-only articles, use All rights reserved until the article opens.
• The OAI-PMH feed and Crossref deposits say whether each article is open, subscriber-only or free from a date.