Public Access

The American Society of Hematology supports free access to Blood on the broadest possible basis. Although ASH cannot adopt or support a publishing model that is not economically sustainable over the long run, certain sections of the journal are always free online:

Abstracts and tables of contents
Inside Blood commentaries
How I Treat articles
5 free research articles every issue

Blood maintains a 12-month embargo for current articles, however, content older than 12 months is free to all online. Additionally, ASH has developed an agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that creates a new option to comply with the NIH policy on enhanced access. All Blood authors who published NIH-funded articles from May 2005 forward have no obligation to submit manuscripts to the NIH archive because Blood will do this on their behalf. The new option, the PMC(NIH Portfolio) Archive Program, is the result of efforts by ASH and a group of nonprofit publishers to improve compliance with the current NIH public access policy while maintaining the publisher-mandated access embargoes. The pilot project will provide NIH with final articles representing NIH-funded research for an internal use archive at NIH. ASH believes the PMC (NIH Portfolio) Archive program provides a better alternative for authors and journals than a mandated policy with a shorter embargo period. During implementation of this program over the course of the year, ASH hopes to continue to work with the NIH on ways to enhance access.

ASH has implemented a public access policy in which Wellcome Trust or Howard Hughes Medical Institute funded papers are deposited into PMC on payment of an public access fee of $2,000, in addition to the regular publication fees charged to authors. This public access option has now been extended to any author, for the same public access fee of $2,000. Upon payment of the fee, Blood will deposit the article into PMC and ensure immediate free access on the Blood website. Authors can find more information about the public access policy for Blood during the manuscript submission process.

Patient Information

Although we are unable to provide answers to specific and/or individual questions about hematological problems, conditions, diagnoses, or treatments, the American Society of Hematology, publisher of Blood, provides links to several third-party websites offering information relating to blood diseases and related disorders. Please visit the Patient Resources section of the ASH website for further information.

Patients interested in obtaining a copy of an access-controlled article in Blood that may be helpful to their situation may do so by emailing a request to the publishing{at}hematology.org. The request should include the following information:

Article citation information, including author(s), title of article, issue date & page number (example: Rafik Terra et al., T-cell generation by lymph node resident progenitor cells, July 1, 2005, p. 193). All citation information can be found with the article or abstract information online.
Your name and email address
Name of treating physician (optional)

Blood Online Legacy Content

ASH has published online all legacy content going back to the first Blood issue in 1946, as searchable PDF files.

Pay-per-view

Non-subscribers may choose to access an individual article by using Blood’s pay-per-view option. Pay-per-view options will appear when looking at article or abstract information.