BJPsych Open is a fully Open Access journal that allows publication under a CC-BY license. We are fully supportive of the aims of Plan S and are working towards full compliance.

BJPsych Open is an online open access journal. Open Access is the practice of making published research freely accessible to all. Whilst there are a number of mechanisms for making this content freely available, the Gold open access model used by BJPsych Open requires that the published 'version of record' be made freely available to all immediately upon publication, with additional usage rights. As no subscriptions are sold to view the content, such open access journals are typically financially supported through an article processing charge (APC) levied on the submitting author's institution or funding body.

Authors are able to choose from the following Creative Commons licenses:

• CC-BY (Attribution)
• CC-BY-NC-SA (Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike)
• CC-BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non-Commercial - No Derivatives)

For information on what each licence allows, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. If no selection is indicated on the license to publish form, the article will be published under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Authors are able to post their final published article elsewhere as per the terms of the copyright agreement, but note however that we can currently only track usage statistics for article views and downloads from our own site.

Copyright

Authors in BJPsych Open retain the copyright of their published article.

Sharing Your Article

The corresponding author will receive a link to the article on publication; as the journal is Open Access, the article will be free to download. You are free to share your article based on your choice of Creative Commons license:

Digital Version	Personal web page	Department or institutional repository	Non-commercial subject repository	Commercial repository or social media site (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SSRN)
Version of Record (VoR) (under CC-BY)	On publication	On publication	On publication	On publication
VoR (under CC-BY-NC-SA or CC-BY-NC-ND)	On publication	On publication	On publication	Not permitted

Authors will be able to post the final published version of their article in any noncommercial location (e.g. personal webpage, institutional repository), using any form of the CC-BY license, as well as any commercial location if using the non-derivative CC BY license (CC-BY). We note however that we can currently only track usage statistics for article views and downloads from our own site, and we encourage all authors, regardless of chosen license, to make use of Cambridge Core Share when promoting their work.

Authors are encouraged to actively promote their articles to their colleagues and contacts around the world. Our suite of resources are available to help you engage with your readership, increase your visibility and make your article more discoverable online. When tweeting about your article, please include the journal’s handle, @TheBJPsych and the hashtag #BJPsychOpen.