Only the corresponding author's affiliations can deem an article eligible for an Open Access agreement. Sage permits eligibility for Open Access agreements to be based on any of the corresponding author's affiliations. Please note, all affiliations need to be declared upon submission, in the submission site and on the submitted manuscript, in order to be eligible for an Open Access agreement.
If your believe you are eligible for an Open Access agreement, your article has been accepted, it has entered production, but you have not received an email from the Sage Open Access Portal, please email Sage's Open Access Customer Services team at openaccess@sagepub.com. It might be that the corresponding author's secondary affiliation deems the article eligible and we have not automatically identified this. Please include the following information:
- Article ID/Manuscript ID
- Article title
- Journal
- The secondary affiliation and agreement you believe to be eligible for