Open Access Policy

All articles, notes, and reviews published in Early Theatre become freely available to the public. Here’s how the journal’s open access policy works currently:

• Authors may deposit pre-publication accepted versions of their contributions to institutional repositories. In such cases, we request that the final published version, when ready, replace the accepted version.
• All authors receive via email a PDF of their own published piece within two weeks of publication.
• We encourage authors to self-archive their work by posting this PDF to a not-for-profit repository where it can be accessed for free (eg. their university website, their personal website). Indeed, we hope that authors will distribute their work widely, since doing so helps to publicize the journal and enhance its impact and readership.
• The complete issue in which a piece has been published will be behind a one year subscribers-only paywall. During this period, readers can access the entire issue through an institutional subscription via Érudit or one of our aggregators (Project MUSE, EBSCO); back issue content also appears on JSTOR.
• Currently, Early Theatre participates in the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open (S2O) program. This means that, contingent on continued support of MUSE subscribers, journal content is released via immediate open access via the Early Theatre MUSE homepage.
• After one year, the entire issue becomes completely open access via our website (earlytheatre.org). Authors are then able to offer anyone a link directly to an article, note, or review on the journal site.
• For further information, authors may reference additional details on the SHERPA site.