The Journal of Applied Polymer science is the largest scientific publication in Polymer Science, over a million articles can download per year. However, even the Journal of Applied Polymer cannot reach everyone, especially in today’s interdisciplinary research environment. We appreciate that authors might want to make their articles accessible to as vast readership as possible.
The journal of Applied Polymer Science is as part of Wiley Online Open which make author possible to making their articles. The articles can downloaded with have an “unlocked padlock” symbol and will be free to access even for non-subscribers.
The choice to go online open is entirely the author’s, and it can be made at acceptance of the article by filling and submitting the Wiley Online Open form. The process is therefore completely transparent to the editors and referees handling the manuscript, and whether an author chooses Online open or not has no influence on the peer review process.
In addition, online open papers authored by NIH grantees are automatically included in PubMedCentral, aside from being indexed in all the other databases that the journal of applied polymer science is listed in.
