AMHP’s Open Access Option

"Many of you have read the news in an email: AMHP [Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance] will offer authors the opportunity to publish articles open access (OA). For a fee, when an AMHP article is published, it can be made available for free to anyone who wants to read it. Currently, only AsMA members and subscribers to the Journal can access AMHP articles for free. Others can use a pay-per-view option and authors can purchase a PDF which can be sent to those who request it (the modern version of reprints). It is important to note that we are offering OA as an option—it will not be required. Authors who do not wish to pay a fee and who are satisfied with their articles being published in the traditional manner can continue to publish that way.

There are several reasons why AMHP is becoming a hybrid (OA optional) journal. One is that some authors have reached out to us requesting permission to post their article on a website or in a repository. When this happens, we indicate to the author that content of their article can be posted (the final accepted manuscript) but not the way the article appears in the journal. The journal owns the copyright for each article as it appears as part of the serial publication. This arrangement works, but it is clear that some authors would prefer to post the published version of the paper. Allowing for an OA option can accommodate this desire...."