At World Scientific, we are committed to disseminating high quality research to as wide an audience as possible. Leveraging on the open access movement, WorldScientificOpen gives you unprecedented access to top-tier journals, books and proceedings.

WorldScientificOpen is in full compliance with the latest open access mandates so authors can ensure their research is freely available online, freely redistributed and reused.

World Scientific Journals and UKRI Open Access Policy

World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Authors can stay compliant with UKRI open access policy by going for Route 2 – the Green open access route.

Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of final publication (Version of Record), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under UKRI’s licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.

World Scientific Journals and Plan S

World Scientific complies fully with the open access requirements of Plan S under the “repository route”, also known as “green open access”.

Where required by their funder, journal authors retain the right to deposit their Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC) at the time of final publication (Version of Record), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence or another Creative Commons license as permitted under Plan S licensing requirements. Articles must be accompanied by appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the Version of Record on our website.

World Scientific currently publishes more than 170 journals offering 'Gold' publishing options in either dedicated Open Access, hybrid or transformative journals.

For authors who wish to have their articles published under these hybrid journals, please indicate your open access preference preferably during the submission stage.

World Scientific's Policy on Gold Open Access Publication

With the support of the open access Article-Processing Charge (APC), World Scientific enables authors to have their final version of their papers published on an open access basis, granting on publication, immediate and unrestricted access to the final published version of the paper. This is made available using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) or (CC BY-NC) licence. It also allows immediate deposit of the final published version in other repositories without restriction on re-use.

The Article-Processing Charge (APC) of Open Access varies across journals. Please check with the handling journal editor on the APC charge for each journal. When authors choose WorldScientificOpen, they will sign a "Open Access Licence to Publish" with us. Each WorldScientificOpen article will be clearly identified with "Open Access".

List of Transformative Journals

• Functional Materials Letters
• Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

List of Full Open Access Journals:

• Asian Development Review (ADR)
• Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences (BMS)
• China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies (CQISS)
• Chinese Journal of International Review (CJIR)
• Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES)
• Computing Open: A rapid publication open access journal (COMPUTING-OPEN)
• Data-Driven Modelling: Unravelling Complexity in the Sea of Data (DDM)
• East Asian Affairs (EAA)
• East Asian Policy (EAP)
• Economics Open (ECONOMICS-OPEN)
• Fertility & Reproduction: The Official Journal of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) (FANDR)
• Flatland (FLATLAND)
• Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC)
• Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal (HKPJ)
• Interdisciplinary Journal of Sustainable Oceans and Coasts (IJSOC)
• International Journal of Empirical Economics (IJEE)
• International Journal of Mathematics for Industry (IJMI)
• International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series (IJMPCS)
• Journal of Advanced Dielectrics (JAD)
• Journal of Business and Economic Analysis (JBEA)
• Journal of Climate Action, Research, and Policy (JOCARP)
• Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Immunology (JCRI)
• Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications (JEMDC)
• Journal of Extreme Events (JOEE)
• Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions (JFMMI)
• The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies (JIAS)
• Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS)
• Journal of Sustainable Materials Science and Engineering (JSMSE)
• Materials Informatics and Data Science (MIDS)
• Materials Open - A rapid publication open access journal (MATERIALS-OPEN)
• Mathematics Open - A rapid publication open access journal (MO)
• Molecular Frontiers Journal (MFJ)
• Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences (RAPS)
• Singapore Labour Journal (SGLJ)
• Spacecraft and Satellites (SNS)
• Taiwan Veterinary Journal (TVJ)
• Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine (TMMM)
• Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (VJCS)

Editorial process for hybrid journals

In order to ensure that an author's decision to pay an APC to make their article open access does not influence editors' or reviewers' decisions about an article, authors submitting to any WSPC hybrid journals are not asked to confirm whether they would like to publish their article open access until after it has been accepted.

This will reassure the research community and funding agencies that all submitted articles go through the same (rigorous) process of editorial assessment and peer review, ensuring that the high standards the scholarly community has come to expect from World Scientific journals' are maintained.

World Scientific's Policy on Self Archiving & Sharing

Please check out our Author Rights page.

Contact Us

Please email to [email protected] if you have any specific queries.

Guidelines for Authors - Book proposals & Peer Review

Please indicate your intention to publish your book as Open Access in the book proposal form under "Specific Remarks Pertaining to Proposal" and submit the proposal to us at [email protected].

Upon submission, all Open Access book manuscripts will be subjected to our standard peer review process to ensure that the titles are of high academic quality and fit within our genre of books. The review comments are anonymously shared with our authors so they have a chance to respond to the feedback received. The reviews are an important part of our decision making process in acquisitions. Upon acceptance, these manuscripts will receive the same high level of production and publishing service standards as per our non-open access titles.

Open Access standards

• DRM free ebook PDF file clearly identified as "Open Access"
• Available immediately for free download at www.worldscientific.com upon publication.
• World Scientific Open Access Books are published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license, so they can be reused and redistributed for non-commercial purposes as long as the original author is attributed.

Marketing and promotion

• All Open Access books will receive the same level of marketing and promotion enjoyed by all of our books including submission to journals for review, international direct marketing, online promotion and conference exhibitions.
• Open Access books are included in World Scientific ebook collections where libraries and individual customers will not be charged for these titles.
• Marc records will be provided to libraries for free.
• We will specifically carry out usage promotion campaigns to encourage higher usage among the academic and research community.
• For interested parties, a print edition will also be available for purchase. Authors are entitled to royalty payments on the print copies sold.
• We partner with major book agents and distributors around the world, including Amazon, Baker and Taylor, Gardners and Bertrams to promote your book.

Search, Discovery and Indexing

• Our Open Access books will be sent to the Book Citation Index (BCI) to be reviewed for possible indexing.
• Besides being available on the WSPC platform, Open Access books will also be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN, from 1st July 2021).
• The unique identifiers (DOIs) for each book and chapter will be registered with Crossref allowing citation linking to the book and chapter.
• All Open Access books will be catalogued at the Library of Congress and OCLC WorldCat.
• To allow full text search through library systems, we share the metadata of our books with third party discovery products and services including Primo Central, EBSCO's Discovery Service and Summon.
• Our books are also indexed in various discipline specific Abstract & Indexing databases including NASA ADS, REPEC to ensure wider reach to researchers, more points of access to the books hence driving up readership and citations.
• All World Scientific books are indexed by mainstream search engines such as Google, Baidu.
• Authors may deposit their file to either an institutional repository or discipline specific repository or archive, citing and providing a link to the published version.

Preservation

The Open Access book will be archived at Portico, an electronic archiving service for preserving electronic content for future preservation and access.

Types of books accepted as Open Access Publication

We accept monographs and edited volumes. Please let us know if you have other special project types in mind.

Open Access Publication Fees

Fees for publication vary by subject area, length and book type.

Please contact us at [email protected] for more details.