The following publishers or journals allow deposit of some version of the article, typically the Accepted Manuscript version, in a non-profit repository with no embargo even when the article is not available open access on the journal's website. Authors are encouraged to review these policies to confirm compatibility with federal funders' zero-embargo public access policies, such as the NIH Public Access Policy effective July 1, 2025.
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" Authors whose funders require deposition and release less than 6 months from the date of issue publication and who are not publishing their manuscript in AACR's fully open access journal, Cancer Research Communications, must make the deposit arrangements in the appropriate repository themselves, with the appropriate release date no earlier than the date of issue publication in the journal."
"Authors of peer-reviewed research submitted to a Science subscription journal as of January 1, 2023, may post the Accepted Version of their paper on their personal or institutional archival website or in a repository of their choice immediately after publication."
"Authors of journal articles, magazine articles, and meeting papers published by AIAA may post their articles and papers on their private websites and deposit them in their institutional repositories, so long as access to the website is free of charge. ... Posting to an institutional repository is limited to those to which the author has a direct relationship (e.g., academic department repository, university repository, corporate intranet, agency repository, laboratory website, funding sources, or similar) including those that have deposit mandates. ... The conference papers and journal articles posted must be either the submitted (or electronic pre-print) version of a conference paper or the final accepted manuscript (revised to incorporate review recommendations) of an article to be published in one of AIAA’s journals."
"For institutional or funder-designated repositories (e.g., DOE Pages): You may deposit the accepted manuscript immediately after acceptance, using the credit line formatting below."
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
"Otherwise known as 'Self-Archiving' or 'Posting Rights', all ACM published authors of magazine articles, journal articles, and conference papers retain the right to post the pre-submitted (also known as 'pre-prints'), submitted, accepted, and peer-reviewed versions of their work in any and all of the following sites: Author's Homepage, Author's Institutional Repository, Any Repository legally mandated by the agency or funder funding the research on which the work is based..."
"Our green open access route offers all Emerald journal authors or book chapter authors the option to make their research immediately and openly available upon official publication, free from payment. ... You may deposit your author accepted manuscript at any point, but it must not be made publicly accessible until official publication (i.e. as soon as it appears on Emerald Insight in its final typeset version)."
European Mathematical Society (EMS) Press
"For articles not published open access, EMS Press grants authors or their affiliated institutions the right to deposit the author accepted manuscript on institutional repositories and preprint servers. For clarification, this is the version of the article as accepted for publication, including all changes made during the peer review process, but not the version which is finally published and distributed by EMS Press."
"IEEE policy provides that authors are free to follow funder public access mandates to post accepted articles in repositories. When posting in a repository, the IEEE embargo period is 24 months. However, IEEE recognizes that posting requirements and embargo periods vary by funder. IEEE authors may comply with requirements to deposit their accepted articles in a repository per funder requirements where the embargo is less than 24 months."
"Beginning in 2023, JAMA and all of the journals in the JAMA Network will adopt a new policy that permits authors of original research investigations to deposit their accepted manuscript in a public repository of their choosing immediately on the day that the manuscript is published by the JAMA Network."
Authors are welcome to post the accepted version of their manuscript to an institutional repository, funder repository, or personal website immediately upon publication of the Version of Record."
Immediately upon publication, authors may deposit their accepted manuscript in their funding body’s archive or designated noncommercial institutional repository, under the same license as the published article, provided that a link to the published article in PNAS is included. The accepted manuscript is the version of the article that was accepted for publication after peer review and prior to copyediting by PNAS. Authors may make their deposited accepted manuscripts publicly available immediately upon publication by PNAS."
"You may share the Original Submission or Accepted Manuscript at any time after your paper is accepted and in any format. Your sharing of the Original Submission or Accepted Manuscript may include posting a downloadable copy on any website, saving a copy in any repository or network, sharing a copy through any social media channel, and distributing print or electronic copies."
" From Jul 01, 2025 […] if the article is published open access, the Journal will deposit the final published article to PubMed Central, on behalf of authors, for public availability without embargo on the official date of publication. If the article is not published open access, authors may comply with the policy by depositing their Author Accepted Manuscript to PubMed Central upon its acceptance for publication.”
