Licensing and Open Access

Articles will be published with a standard subscription-based access and authors will not be charged a fee unless they indicate that they want the Open Access (OA) option. Do note that the publisher may make some articles available for a restricted ‘read only’ public access at no cost to the author for an unspecified period of time.

National Wellbeing Service Ltd (ie the publisher) Open Articles are published under Creative Commons licenses. With a Creative Commons license, the author(s) retain the copyright but allow others to copy and distribute the work provided they give author(s) credit, subject to the conditions of the relevant Creative Commons license as below.

Wellcome Trust and RCUK funded authors publishing in National Wellbeing Service journals can use the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) for their articles. (This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.) See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

All other authors may use the following Creative Commons licenses:

•Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC BY-NC). (This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.) See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

•Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND). (This license only allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially). See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Introductory journal OA fees in 2017: £100 plus VAT.

For further information about Creative Commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/