What is the Sage Open Access Portal?

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Overview

The Sage Open Access Portal facilitates the license selection and any Article Processing Charge (APC) payment necessary for authors to publish their article Open Access.

For more information, please see our Sage Open Access Portal webpage.

What is the Sage Open Access Portal?

Please see below for an explanation of how our portal supports Authors, Consortia, Libraries, and Funders:

For Authors :

Automatically identify and contact all authors who are eligible for an Open Access Agreement with Sage soon after your article enters Production.
Provide the appropriate OA Creative Commons license which author, or any co-author, can select and digitally sign, quickly and easily.
Provide a fully integrated online payment system to manage the APC transaction process, including automatically applying any applicable discounts, waivers or taxes.
Send automated reminders and updates on any activities relating to author's article(s) in the portal.
Create a personal login account within the portal from which to view and track the open access status of any article(s) on which you are an author or co-author.

For Consortia with a Sage Open Access Agreement:

Establish uniform terms for managing hybrid and gold open access publishing
Automatically identify eligible authors and journals to optimize agreement usage.
Communicate Open Access publishing requirements to authors.
Improve Sage's reporting accuracy on open access publications.

For Libraries:

Automate Open Access Agreement terms with Sage.
Function as a Centralized Bill Payer for approving or declining APCs.
Access a flexible online payment system.
Automate author APC payment requests and reminders.
Receive detailed reporting options.

For Funders:

Ensure author compliance with funder mandates via Open Funder ID.
Function as Centralized Bill Payers to support open access mandates.
Access author-declared funding information.

Contact Information

For further assistance, please contact the Open Access Customer Services team at openaccess@sagepub.com

If you need to log in to the Sage Open Access Portal, please visit openaccess.sagepub.com