Open Access Option

All papers are freely available online in RNA 12 months after publication, unless an author pays an Open Access (OA) Article Processing Charge (APC) ($2500 for RNA Society members; $3700 for non-Society members) to make a paper freely available online immediately upon publication. Authors can select Open Access with either a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC License (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, or a CC-BY License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Authors who choose Open Access may select one of the two CC licenses by completing the OA License to Publish form upon acceptance (available in the Author Area at submit.rnajournal.org). Choosing Open Access will have no effect on acceptance and publication of submitted papers.

Note: The OA APC is in addition to the journal’s publication service charge ($1250 for RNA Society members; $1500 for non-Society members), plus any additional author alteration or extra page fees, which apply to all accepted papers.

Compliance with Funder Mandates for Open Access

For Articles listing support from US federal funders (e.g., National Institutes of Health), authors may deposit the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version of their paper in their funder's preferred repository (e.g., the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central for NIH-funded authors), provided both that (i) the Article is the result of direct funding from that organization, (ii) the corresponding funder is listed in the Article's acknowledgements, and (iii) such deposit is required by the funder. The AAM should be made publicly available in the funder's repository no earlier than the Official Date of Publication of the Article and in accordance with the individual funder's policy. The Authors are solely responsible for complying with the public access requirements of their funders. RNA will deposit the version of record of all Open Access articles in PubMed Central upon publication of the article in an issue.

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