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Open Access
When research is accepted for publication in Lab Animal, authors can choose to publish using either the traditional publishing route OR Open Access publishing via the Springer Nature Transformative Agreements and Authors Open Choice publishing.

Authors may need to take specific actions to achieve compliance with funder and institutional open access mandates. If your research is supported by a funder that requires immediate open access (e.g. according to Plan S principles or the NIH public access policy) then you should select the gold OA route, and we will direct you to the compliant route where possible. Because authors warrant under our subscription licensing terms that they haven't committed to licensing any version of their article under a licence inconsistent with the terms of our agreement - including the applicable embargo period - publication under the subscription model isn't suitable for authors whose funders require no embargo.