Read about our open access policies, processing charges and licensing. Find out how you can share and reuse your open-access research and the licenses available.
| Version of article or chapter | Definition |
|---|---|
| Submitted version under review (SMUR, also known as ‘Pre-print’) | The version of the work as submitted to the journal, prior to the peer review process. |
| Author accepted manuscript (AAM, also known as ‘Post-print’) | The version of the work as accepted for publication. This may include any amendments suggested as a result of the peer review process. This is the version you will receive via email when your article is accepted. You should keep a copy of this for your records. |
| Version of record (VoR, also known as ‘Publisher PDF’) | The version of the work that appears in the official publication, which includes Emerald branding and formatting. |
Guidelines For Sharing And Reusing Your Work
Granthaalayah Open Access Policy
Our open-access method provides all Granthaalayah journal authors and book chapter authors with the opportunity to make their research immediately and openly available following formal publication, without the need to pay a fee for doing so. We are one of only a few of publishers who do not impose an embargo period on their publications.
You may deposit your author-accepted manuscript at any time, but it must not be made publicly accessible until it is officially published (i.e., as soon as it appears in its final typeset edition in Granthaalayah’s journal).
We allow deposits to the following places:
- Your institutional repository (the repository of the institution you are affiliated to)
- A not-for-profit subject repository relevant to your discipline
- Your personal or company website
We do not currently allow uploading of the AAM to ResearchGate or Academia.edu. However, after the publication of your article, you may upload the metadata of your work (i.e. article title, author name(s), journal name and the abstract) to ResearchGate or Academia.edu and provide the link to the version hosted by Granthaalayah, or the link to a version deposited in your institutional repository or personal website.
How To Deposit Your Granthaalayah Work
To deposit your author accepted manuscript, you will need to include the following details:
- You must include the DOI back to the official published version of your work on Granthaalayah’s journal.
- Include all of the relevant citation information (for journal articles: article title, journal name, volume, issue number and for book chapters: chapter title, book title, series name and volume number)
- The author accepted manuscript must clearly indicate where the article was published
- Include a clear licensing statement in the citation information and on the first page of the AAM (see below).
Deposit Licenses
As a Granthaalayah author, you have a choice of two licences to deposit your AAM under; you may either include the copyright line of the published work or deposit under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Our journal follows 2 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, please check journal website for licence information. Below are details of the licence.
Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC) licence
The CC BY-NC licence means that anyone may reuse that AAM for non-commercial purposes. If anyone wishes to use that AAM for commercial purposes, they should contact the Permissions team.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) licence
The CC BY licence means that anyone may Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, subject to full attribution.
To display this licence on your AAM, you would include the following (alongside the article citation/metadata):
Authors Of A Complete Granthaalayah Book
For book authors, the version of the work that may be deposited should be taken from the completed manuscript you submitted to Granthaalayah. It should be the version accepted for publication by the editor before it is handed over to our production team.
If you are the author of a complete book, on publication of your work, you may deposit any two chapters of your choice from your book (but not the whole book) in one of the following places:
- Your institutional repository (the repository of the institution you are affiliated to)
- A not-for-profit subject repository relevant to your discipline
- Your personal or company website.
The version of the chapters you deposit must be the version accepted by Granthaalayah or the Editor (the AAM), and must not be the published version.
How To Deposit Your Granthaalayah Chapters
To deposit your author accepted manuscript, you will need to include the following details:
- You must include the DOI back to the official published version of your work on Granthaalayah’s journal, or the link to the book’s page on the Granthaalayah Bookstore
- Include all of the relevant citation information (chapter title, book title, series name and volume number if appropriate)
- The author accepted manuscript must clearly indicate where the chapter was published
- Include a clear licensing statement in the citation information and on the first page of the AAM.
- You have a choice of two licences to deposit under as mentioned above.
How do I pay to make my article or book open access?
If you are the corresponding author, once the article, chapter or book has been accepted, we will send you an invoice for the APC. This invoice can either be paid by you directly or by arrangement with the relevant funding agency or academic institution.
Please note, payment of an APC is independent of, and holds no bias over, the editorial and peer review processes operated by the Granthaalayah journal and book teams.
APC payment exceptions
If you are based in a location classified as a low-income country by the World Bank, you may be eligible for an APC waiver or reduced APC rate. See our APC waiver policy below.
Article processing charge (APC) waiver policy
Granthaalayah is committed to making open access accessible and inclusive to all and supports the publication of research from low- or middle-income countries. This is why we invest in a waiver programme that allows authors from these countries to publish their work in our open access titles either without charge or with a discount.
Who is eligible for an APC waiver?
Corresponding authors based in countries classified by the World Bank as ‘low’ or ‘lower – middle’ income are eligible for a 50% waiver.
If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.
Waivers will be automatically applied during the submission process. A full list of eligible countries is provided below (World Bank: 2021 fiscal year).
World Bank low-income countries eligible for a full APC waiver
| Afghanistan | Guinea | Rwanda |
| Burkina Faso | Guinea-Bissau | Sierra Leone |
| Burundi | Korea, Dem. People's Rep | Somalia |
| Central African Republic | Liberia | South Sudan |
| Chad | Madagascar | Sudan |
| Congo, Dem. Rep | Malawi | Syrian Arab Republic |
| Eritrea | Mali | Togo |
| Ethiopia | Mozambique | Yemen, Rep. |
| Gambia, The | Niger | Uganda |
Open access refund policy (APC)
Prior to publication, a refund may be awarded in the following circumstances: If there is a reason the article can’t be published; for example, on the advice of our legal team, we may decline the article and refund the APC.
Once the article has been published, we are unable to offer refunds in the following circumstances:
- Article retraction or article removal: If the rare situation arises that we need to retract or remove an article (e.g. due to an issue of publication ethics or a breach in author warranties).
- Article withdrawal: If for any reason an author decides to withdraw their paper prior to publication. (More info for article retraction and withdrawal available on the individual journal website)
- Publication delays: If, despite our best efforts, the publication of an article is delayed due to editorial or author changes.
- Circumstances beyond our control: If the publication is delayed or not fulfilled due to circumstances beyond our control, for example, natural or other disasters.
- Availability of articles on third-party platforms. While we do our best to provide third parties with the metadata and APIs required to host open access articles on their platforms, we cannot guarantee they will post or display them. Granthaalayah is unable to refund the APC If they fail to do so.
Open data policy
There are many good reasons to provide readers of your article with free access to the analytical code and data underlying your findings.
Sharing data brings a number of benefits which is why we encourage authors to do so.
Sharing data can:
- Enable research to be reproduced
- Reduce duplication of data collection and processing efforts
- Increase the impact of your work
- Aid new research
- Increase the credibility of the findings
If you do decide to share it, the first step is to select an appropriate research data repository you can upload it to. This might be one run by your own institution, or it might be a third-party platform such as Dryad, Figshare, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, UK Data Service ReShare, OpenICPSR, or Qualitative Data Repository. The repositories will provide you with a citable DOI (digital object identifier) which should be included in your submission. Further repositories can be found on the Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3Data).
A few important points:
- In the acknowledgements or first footnote of any manuscript you submit to Granthaalayah, you must let readers know whether they will be able to access the data, analytic methods, and study materials associated with your work (i.e. state whether or not you will be making them openly available).
- If you have decided to share them, you must also specify where the material can be accessed.
- We encourage responsible data sharing; if your dataset contains information that an organisation might consider confidential, or it identifies an individual or company and you don’t have their consent, please liaise with your institution before uploading the data. In addition, if your dataset could be considered the property of someone else, you will need their permission before uploading it to a public repository.
Maximise the impact of your research by following best practices when sharing data; for example, compile a data dictionary listing the variables involved.
Please note: We support the guidelines laid down in the concordat to support research integrity, developed by Universities UK, which state that there should be: “Transparency and open communication in declaring conflicts of interest; in the reporting of research data collection methods; in the analysis and interpretation of data; in making research findings widely available, which includes sharing negative results as appropriate; and in presenting the work to other researchers and to the general public.”
To fabricate or manipulate data is fundamentally wrong and a breach of research integrity. Please be aware we may review data or request the original data files: if there is reason to suspect that the data is not plausible, we reserve the right to reject that paper. If that is the case, we will closely follow the principles outlined on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website.
