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Open access information

Advances in Radiation Oncology is a peer reviewed, open access journal.

User rights

All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute. Permitted reuse is defined by your choice of one of the following user licenses:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; and include in a collective work (such as an anthology). These uses are permitted only for non-commercial purposes, and provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); provides a link to the license; and does not alter or modify the article.

If you need to comply with your funding body policy you can apply for a CC BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication.

Article Publishing Charge

As an open access journal with no subscription charges, a fee (Article Publishing Charge, APC) is payable by the authors, or their institution or funders, to cover the costs associated with publication. This ensures your article will be immediately and permanently free to access by everyone.

The Article Publishing Charge for this journal is:

Article typeArticle Publishing Charge (excl. taxes)
Full Length Articles and ReviewsUSD 2500
Short Articles and Case ReportsUSD 1250

Please note: ASTRO members are eligible for a 25% discount on the article publishing charge.

Research4Life Article Publishing Charge waiver & discount options

We automatically apply Article Publishing Charge waivers or discounts to those articles in gold open access journals for which all authors are based in a country eligible for the Research4Life program. Find out more about the APC waiver and discount eligibility here.

Best price promise

Our Online Author Communication System (OACS) ensures you are offered the lowest possible Article Publishing Charge to publish an article in your chosen journal. During submission you will be presented with a personalized OA Article Publishing Charge based on your individual context (your country, institutional affiliation, and any society membership for example) as well as considering the journal involved.

Learn more about Elsevier's pricing policy.

Open access agreements

Elsevier has reached open access agreements with an increasing number of institutions and university consortia around the world. Find out what this means for authors on our open access agreements page.

Funding arrangements

Elsevier partners with funding bodies to provide guidance for authors on how to comply with funding body open access policies. Find out more on our funding arrangements page.

Author rights

For open access publishing this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights and Elsevier will be granted publishing and distribution rights.

Elsevier supports responsible sharing

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Publishing schedule

This journal publishes 6 issues a year.

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