AGU has 10 fully Open Access journals: AGU Advances, Community Science, Earth’s Future, Earth and Space Science, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Geophysical Research Letters (starting January 2023), Geohealth, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, and Space Weather. 

• Authors must pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) for their article to be published.
• Authors can select one of several Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
• Articles published in these journals are freely available online immediately upon publication.

AGU has 13 hybrid journals where readers will find some articles available via Open Access while others will be behind a paywall unless their institution has a subscription.

• If an author wants their article to be available free of charge to all readers (i.e. Open Access) they will need to pay an Article Processing Charge. Authors can select this option after their article is accepted. Authors select one of several Creative Commons (CC) licenses. The article is freely available online immediately upon publication.
• Alternatively authors do not pay an Article Processing Charge to be published in the journal but their article is only accessible via subscription or purchase.

AGU has published two Open Access books: Carbon in Earth's Interior (2020) and Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Changes (2021). These were pilots but we are currently exploring ways to make Open Access an option for all books in our portfolio.

Many funders and institutions now completely cover or take advantage of discounts on open access author publishing charges in AGU journals through accounts with our publishing partner, Wiley. These instances may apply to any author while others apply only for the corresponding author of the paper. Find out if your institution has an account.

To ensure availability of funding is not a barrier to publication, AGU provides various funding options for our authors, including waivers and discounts on publishing fees. These options vary depending on the type of journal you choose. For more information, visit our Funding Options page.