All papers in Genes & Development are freely available in PMC six months after full-issue publication, thereby complying with mandates from a wide variety of funding institutions, including National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and members of UKPMC Funders Group, such as Wellcome Trust.
In addition, authors are invited to participate in the journal's fee-based Open Access program, thereby eliminating the journal's six-month embargo period. Open Access papers are freely available to both subscribers and nonsubscribers of the journal in PubMed Central upon full-issue upload.