Open Access

This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal. Authors do not have to pay any Article Processing Charge or Open Access Publication Fee.

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia is a peer reviewed, open access journal. 

All articles published gold open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download, copy and distribute. We offer authors a choice of user licenses, which define the permitted reuse of articles. We currently offer the following license(s) for this journal:

Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; and include in a collective work (such as an anthology). These uses are permitted only for non-commercial purposes, and provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); provides a link to the license; and does not alter or modify the article. 

If you need to comply with your funding body policy you can apply for a CC BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication. 

We automatically apply Article Publishing Charge waivers or discounts to those articles in gold open access journals for which all authors are based in a country eligible for the Research4Life program. Find out more about the APC waiver and discount eligibility. 

Our Online Author Communication System (OACS) ensures you are offered the lowest possible Article Publishing Charge to publish an article in your chosen journal. During submission you will be presented with a personalized OA Article Publishing Charge based on your individual context (your country, institutional affiliation, and any society membership for example) as well as considering the journal involved. 

Learn more about Elsevier's pricing policy.

Elsevier has reached open access agreements with an increasing number of institutions and university consortia around the world. Find out what this means for authors on our open access agreements page.

Elsevier partners with funding bodies to provide guidance for authors on how to comply with funding body open access policies. Find out more on our funding arrangements page. 

For open access publishing, this journal uses a copyright transfer agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

Find out how you can share your research published in Elsevier journals. 

• Benefits of publishing open access with Elsevier 

• Open access agreements 

• Funding arrangements 

• Open access license policy 

• Open access pricing policy 

Frequently asked questions and answers are available in the Journal Article Publishing Support Center. 

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