The University of Chicago Press supports green open access across its entire portfolio of journals.
Green open access refers to the ability of authors to self-archive their own work and make it freely available through institutional or disciplinary repositories. Authors may deposit either the published PDF of their article or the final accepted version of the manuscript after peer review (but not proofs of the article) in a non-commercial repository where it can be made freely available no sooner than twelve (12) months after publication of the article in the journal.
If a shorter embargo period is required by government or funding body mandate, only the final accepted version of the manuscript may be released. Funded authors may deposit their accepted manuscripts in non-commercial institutional or disciplinary repositories with an embargo period that complies with their Funders’ policies (including no embargo where required) and under a CC BY-NC license, or CC BY-ND or CC BY license if CC BY-NC is not allowed.
Gold open access, also called author-pays publication, allows authors to make the electronic version of their article freely available on the journal website, in perpetuity, for a fee, which may be paid by the author directly or by an institution or funding body. Select University of Chicago Press journals, listed below, allow authors to request gold open access, which is granted at the discretion of the editor. It is primarily provided for authors who have a funder that mandates this form of open access. For all other journals, please consult the journal editor.
Articles published as gold open access are made available under a CC BY-NC license, which allows for their non-commercial reuse. If a CC BY or other license is required by your funding body (as, for example, the UKRI), please notify the journal office. Articles published under a CC BY license are subject to an additional fee.
Free issues and articles
Certain issues and articles published in University of Chicago Press journals may be made freely available, either following a particular policy of the journal or its sponsoring society or at the discretion of the editor or publisher. For example, articles in the Focus section of Isis , which are designed to attract readers in all areas of the field by dealing with themes that cut across chronological boundaries, are always free. In addition, the following journals make each issue freely accessible after an embargo of two years: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, and Tax Policy and the Economy. All articles published more than 95 years ago, for which copyright has expired, are made available for free.
The following ceased titles are freely available on the University of Chicago Press Journals Division website: KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, Innovation Policy and the Economy, the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, and the Supreme Court Economic Review.
Free issues and articles for a University of Chicago Press journal are identified by the 
icon next to an issue in the list of issues, or an article in an issue’s Table of Contents.
Free access in developing nations
The University of Chicago Press makes its complete portfolio of journals freely available to more than 13,000 registered institutions across 125 eligible countries throughout the world through the Chicago Emerging Nations Initiative (CENI).