Open Access Publication Blood Cancer Journal is an open access journal: authors pay an article processing charge (APC) for their accepted articles to be open access online and freely accessible immediately upon publication, under a Creative Commons license. Benefits of open access - Increased visibility and usage - As articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication they have a broader distribution and increased visibility over subscription content, increasing the likelihood of usage and citations. - Easy compliance with institutional and funder mandates - Content published under a Creative Commons licence can be archived anywhere and made immediately available on publication, allowing authors to easily comply with funder requirements. - Retention of copyright by authors. - Faster impact - As work is available to all as soon as it is published research that builds on the paper can be carried out and published quicker.