Our Position

Common Ground Research Networks is committed to enabling sustainable initiatives that lead to more open scholarly communication.

Our English-language journals are all Hybrid Open Access and offer various options to fit the needs of institutions, funders, and researchers worldwide. You can decide the right path at Phase 3 | Rights Agreement phase. But you can also change this agreement at any time after publication. We are taking a transformative approach to all our English language titles. Transformative journals commit to supporting an annual increase in the share of Open Access content and implementing a fully Open Access model for the journals when 75% of articles are published Open Access.

And our Spanish language journals are all Gold Open Access (CC-BY)

All works published Open Access are available in one central location — Common Ground Open @ CGScholar. The CGScholar platform is developed by the Common Ground Media Lab, the research and technology arm of Common Ground Research Networks. CGScholar is a platform that seeks to become a trusted marketplace for knowledge work, one that rigorously democratizes the process of knowledge-making, rewards participants, and offers a secure basis for the sustainable creation and distribution of digital knowledge artifacts.

Options - For Researchers

We fully support the general principles of open and accessible research and seek to work collaboratively with all stakeholders in this time of disruptive change. As always, we are open to shifting models and collaborative experimentation with researchers, authors, funding institutions, and libraries.

Standard Open Access

CC BY-NC-ND

Single Article $425 US

Gold Open Access

CC BY

  • Creative Commons License: (CC BY 4.0)
    • Attribution 4.0 International
      • Allows archiving, distribution, and re-use, with attribution
      • Anyone may archive the article
      • Anyone may distribute the article
      • Anyone may re-use the article, including commercial use

Single Article $625 US

Options - For Libraries and Funders

Transformative Agreements as a Pathway to Open Access

Many researchers must publish open access as part of their funding agreement. If your institution has a Read and Publish Agreement with Common Ground Research Networks, you can publish your article gold OA at no cost to you. And at the same time, you can also enjoy access to subscribed journal content. With a Read and Publish Agreement, libraries and funders enjoy the simplicity of a single price, and scholars get seamless open access publication.

Read and Publish Agreement – General Framework

For Researchers:

  • only the corresponding author needs to belong to an institution with a Read & Publish deal
  • no fees or invoices, we’ll confirm your institution has an agreement at the Membership / Rights phase of the publishing workflow
  • Applied to articles accepted between 1 January and 31 December

For Librarians or Funders

  • one simple annual fee tailored to your institution full access to journal articles
  • one-year deal with flexible and transparent review allowing for adaptation in the following years

If your institution subscribes to our journals and your researchers regularly publish with us, you can gain extra value from moving to a Read & Publish model.
Contact us and we’ll be happy to calculate your tailored Read and Publish agreement or discuss any other transformative models that you wish to explore: subscriptions@cgnetworks.org