Open Access

International Journal of Wildland Fire is a fully open access journal. All articles published after 1 January 2024 are Open Access.

Open Access articles:

• may be viewed immediately after publication by anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world without the need for a subscription
• may be uploaded to any personal, institutional or public repository subject to acknowledgement of the author and journal in accordance with their choice of one of three Creative Commons licences (see below)

Content published prior to 1 January 2024 remains under its original license, with paywalled content remaining as such. If you are affiliated with an institution and wish to access archive content that is not Gold OA, please check whether your library can provide access to the archive. You can also purchase access to individual articles via Pay-per-View.

Open Access Licence

Authors are offered a choice of Creative Commons licences that they can apply to their work.

Creative Commons licences allow free access and redistribution of the work and differ in terms of the rights they grant end users. All licences require that those redistributing or re-using the work give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made. Authors retain the copyright.

• CC BY-NC-ND licence [external link]: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. This licence allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following conditions:
  • Attribution – the original source must be cited (BY)
  • NonCommercial – works may not be used for commercial purposes (NC)
  • NoDerivatives – derivates of the article (e.g. translations) may not be distributed (ND)
• CC BY-NC licence [external link]: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. This licence allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following conditions:
  • Attribution – the original source must be cited (BY)
  • NonCommercial – works may not be used for commercial purposes (NC)
• CC BY licence [external link]: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. This licence allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following conditions:
  • Attribution – the original source must be cited (BY)

Costs of Publishing

Papers will require the payment of an Article Publishing Charge (APC); please see below:

*Inclusive of GST for Australian authors

Visit our Publishing Charges page for more information on APCs and Publishing Charges.

Read and Publish

CSIRO Publishing supports a range of Open Access options including funded support.

Researchers from institutions with Read and Publish agreements in place can publish articles as Open Access in a number of CSIRO Publishing journals, including International Journal of Wildland Fire, without needing to pay Article Publishing Charge (APCs).

Waivers

APCs may be waived where the author(s) or their institutions(s) have no access to funding. Such requests must be made on submission of the manuscript and must be accompanied by a letter from the chair of the author’s department certifying that funds are not available for this use.