Open access
JCI Insight is an open access journal in which all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Authors retain copyright to their work via the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Users of these articles are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of the articles, and use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. The ASCI retains copyright to many articles published prior to August 20, 2020; while these articles are freely available, permission may be required for re-use; see License Information for details.
JCI Insight deposits published research articles in PubMed Central, which satisfies the NIH Public Access Policy and other similar funding agency requirements.
JCI Insight meets cOAlition S requirements for authors who receive funding support from Plan S signatories and is fully compliant with Wellcome and other UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding agencies and is indexed in Sherpa Romeo and included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Publication fees
JCI Insight is owned and self-published by the American Society for Clinical Investigation, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In order to support the costs of open access publication, authors of accepted JCI Insight research articles are assessed a publication fee of $3650. This fee supports the following expenses:
- Editorial board and staff
- Copy editing and layout process and staff
- Online publication on www.insight.jci.org freely available to anyone, anywhere
- Depositing to PubMed, PubMedCentral, and other databases
- IT infrastructure and staff to support all of the above
- General and administrative expenses to support all of the above
