Open Access

Gaceta Sanitaria 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. 

As an open access journal with no subscription charges, a fee (Article Publishing Charge, APC) is payable by the authors, or their institution or funders, to cover the costs associated with publication. This ensures your article will be immediately and permanently free to access by everyone.

The Article Publishing Charge for this journal is:

Please note: For articles where the first or last author is a member of one of the scientific societies of SESPAS, with at least one year of membership at the time of sending the manuscript, the APC will be EUR 900 for Originals, Reviews, Opinion Articles, Positions on Health and Public Health Policies Articles and Special Articles. The APC for Brief Originals, Protocols, Methodological, and Field Notes will be EUR 450.

After manuscript acceptance, authors will receive specific information on how to make the payment to SESPAS.

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. 

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a Journal Publishing Agreement. Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Copyright will be transferred to the society if the manuscript is accepted for publication. Permission of the society is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

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. 

Please contact support@elsevier.com for any further questions.