Open Access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access online to peer-reviewed scholarly research. OA journals offer “gold” OA, meaning immediate OA, to all their articles on the publisher’s website. “Gold” OA for individual articles is funded by authors [or their institution(s) or funder(s)] who pay an OA article processing charge (APC).

The APC for JU Open Plus full-length articles is $2,500 (USD) for non-members and discounted to $2,000 (USD) for AUA members for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, as currently displayed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode (the “CC BY-NC-ND”) and $900 (USD) for non-members and discounted to $750 (USD) for AUA members for case reports, case series, research reports, and commentaries published under the CC BY-NC-ND license.

JU Open Plus offers full or partial equitable waivers for accepted articles from low- and middle-income economies. Eligibility is based on the Research4Life eligibility criteria. Countries listed in Group A are eligible for the full waiver, and countries listed in Group B are eligible for the partial (50%) waiver. The waiver is automatically applied based on the Corresponding Author’s country information provided during submission. To determine your eligibility, visit the Research4Life criteria page at https://www.research4life.org/access/criteria/.

Please be advised that JU Open Plus will only refund an APC if an editorial error has resulted in a failure to publish an article under the OA terms selected by the authors. APCs will not be refunded when articles are withdrawn voluntarily due to author error or misconduct.

Creative Commons License

OA articles are freely available to read, download, and share from the time of publication under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND) license. This license does not permit reuse for any commercial purposes, and it does not cover the reuse or modification of individual elements of the work (such as figures, tables, etc.) in the creation of derivative works without specific permission.

Copyright

Authors retain their copyright for all OA articles. Authors grant American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. an exclusive License to Publish the article, and the article is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons user license.

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