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SEG Library Policies | Open Access

SEG Policy on Open-Access Publishing

SEG provides authors a variety of open-access publishing options, including some "green" and "gold" open-access options.

SEG provides the world's premier vehicles for knowledge exchange in applied geophysics. The Society's publishing program is one such vehicle. To help attract the best scholarship and disseminate it to the widest possible audience through journals, meetings papers, and books, SEG provides authors a variety of open-access publishing options. These include some "green" open-access options that long have been features of the traditional subscription-based business model that has sustained the Society's publishing program.

Authors of papers accepted for publication in an SEG journal may elect to have their papers made freely accessible indefinitely in SEG's online archives by paying an open-access fee and all mandatory charges. The open-access fee for papers originally submitted prior to 1 February 2020 is US$2,500. Papers originally submitted on or after 1 February 2020 must pay US$3,500 plus all mandatory charges for open-access publication. If an author paid US$1,000 for open-access publication of an SEG Expanded Abstract, the open-access fee for the expansion of that paper published in an SEG journal would be reduced by US$1,000 and charged US$2,500 plus all mandatory charges.

Here are features of open-access options available to authors, or in cases of works made for hire, their employers:

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Traditional publication (including green open access)

  • No author publication charge (APC) is levied, although payment of mandatory page charges are assessed and payment of voluntary charges is requested. Relief from mandatory charges may be requested under SEG's hardship relief policy.

  • Copyright is transferred to SEG.

  • Authors/employers retain proprietary rights such as the right to patentable subject matter and the right to make oral presentation of the work with full citation and proper copyright acknowledgment.

  • Authors/employers enjoy the right to prepare and hold copyright in derivative publications based on the paper provided that the derivative work is published subsequent to the official date of the original paper's publication by SEG.

  • Authors/employers may post a final accepted version of the manuscript or the final SEG-formatted version (book chapters excluded) on authors' personal websites, employers' websites, or in institutional repositories operated and controlled exclusively by authors' employers provided that:
    1. the SEG-prepared version is presented without modification;
    2. copyright notice and a full citation appear with the paper;
    3. a link to the SEG version of record in the SEG Library using the digital object identifier (DOI) and a permalink is provided;
    4. the posting is noncommercial in nature, and the paper is made available to users without charge; and
    5. that notice be provided that use is subject to SEG terms of use and conditions.

  • Authors/employers may not post their articles in an institutional repository or other site in which the content is required to carry or is implied as carrying a license contrary to SEG copyright and terms of use and terms of this policy.

  • Authors of articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters reporting research funded by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) may post a final accepted version of the manuscript in any institutional or subject repository (e.g., EarthArXiv) without embargo. Manuscripts may be deposited immediately upon acceptance under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license terms.

  • Authors may reuse all or part of their papers published with SEG in a thesis or dissertation that authors write and are required to submit to satisfy criteria of degree-granting institutions.

  • Authors/employers have the nonexclusive right, after publication by SEG, to give permission to third parties to republish print versions of the paper, or excerpts therefrom, without obtaining permission from SEG, provided that:
    1. the SEG-prepared version is not used for this purpose;
    2. the paper is not republished in another journal or book; and
    3. the third party does not charge a fee. Permission must be obtained from SEG for other republication of the paper.

"Gold" open access

  • Authors, their employers, or research funders pay an author publication charge (APC) of US$2,500 (US$3,500 for papers submitted on or after 1 February 2020) plus any applicable mandatory page charges. It is SEG's expectation that APCs typically be paid by employers or research funding agencies and, if by the author, from a portion of author's research funds designated for open-access publishing. The fee applies to all journal articles yet may be adjusted for book chapters depending on chapter length, number of chapters, the proportion of open-access material in the whole book, and the anticipated market for the book.
    • Authors of meetings papers may pay US$1,000 for open-access publication of a meetings paper and then US$2,500 for open-access publication of the expansion of that work in a journal published by SEG.

  • SEG publishes the paper to its official websites (SEG Library and GeoScienceWorld) without access controls immediately upon publication and in perpetuity. The paper is clearly flagged as Open Access.

  • Authors/employers retain copyright and select from among four Creative Commons licenses under which their work is licensed to the public and to SEG. Authors/employers execute an additional licensing agreement extending specific additional rights to SEG. The Creative Commons licenses available for selection by authors/employers are:

  • Licensing agreements between SEG and authors/employers extend to SEG worldwide license to publish the paper, all associated supplemental material, and subsequent, if necessary, errata in any SEG publication under the terms of the Creative Commons license selected by authors/employers. Further, authors/employers agree to acknowledge the SEG-published version of the paper as the version of record.

  • Licensing agreements between SEG and authors/employers also stipulate that subsequent Discussions and Replies associated with a paper be licensed and published under the same Creative Commons license as the paper itself.

  • Licensing agreements between SEG and authors/employers stipulate that further distribution of a paper must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published paper's title, full citation, and DOI (linked to the SEG official version if in electronic form). SEG states this requirement in the published paper alongside indication of which Creative Commons license has been selected by the authors/employer.

  • Licensing agreements between SEG and authors/employers grant to SEG additional rights to enforce rights in the work, on behalf of the author and SEG, against third parties in cases of plagiarism, ethical disputes, and fraud. Such agreements also grant SEG nonexclusive right to extend to third parties content-reuse permissions that exceed the rights granted to third parties under the Creative Commons license selected by the author/employer.

  • Author/employer rights and responsibilities defined for traditional publication that are not superseded by these gold open-access policies are applicable to authors/employers electing gold open access.

Applicability to copublished material

The policies herein described apply not only to material published by SEG alone but also to Interpretation, which SEG copublishes with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Questions about the applicability of these policies to other work SEG publishes with other organizations should be directed to the SEG publications director.


Subscription pricing

SEG shall annually examine whether gold open access adoption rates merit moderation or reduction in institutional subscription fees and adjust rates accordingly.


Last updated by the Publications Committee and the SEG Board of Directors in June 2022.
SEG Procedures Manual: Chapter IV. Section 6.A.9