Open Access Policy

The Seismological Society of America (SSA) offers multiple open access options when publishing in our journals. When publishing in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) and Seismological Research Letters (SRL), authors may choose to publish either under a Page Charges Agreement or under an Open Access license. All articles published in The Seismic Record (TSR) are published under an Open Access license.

  • For articles published under a Page Charges Agreement, authors may post a copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript (i.e., the final post peer review version) in an institutional repository or to their personal website immediately after online publication. Authors should include the full citation and link to the openly accessible abstract of the Version of Record (VoR) Posting of the (VoR) in a repository or website is not permitted by SSA.
  • Open Access articles in BSSA and SRL and all articles in The Seismic Record (TSR) are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license which permits use, redistribution and reproduction in any format provided the original work is properly cited. Authors may post a copy of the Version of Record in an institutional or other repository or to their personal website immediately upon publication.

Authors should always include the full citation and link to the final published article on the journal websites: