Open Access
The stated policy of the RAS is "to focus on high quality papers through rigorous peer review and, as far as practicable, to provide free publication." Authors are not charged for publishing in MNRAS, with the costs of publications being met by subscriptions. MNRAS provides a form of open access by providing authors with the option to pay for publication, allowing free access by anyone without charge (hybrid open-access model). Fellows of the RAS are given free online access to the RAS journals as part of their membership benefits. Downloadable PDF versions of MNRAS articles are made available via the Astrophysics Data System 36 months after publication (delayed open-access model), although not through the Blackwell site. MNRAS also permits self-archiving by authors on personal webpages, in institutional repositories, and on the arXiv server. Authors do not assign copyright to the RAS or Wiley-Blackwell, but are required to grant an exclusive licence to the article prior to its publication.
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