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 publicly available online:

• Tables of contents
• Abstracts
• Editorials
• Blood Commentaries
• Blood Work
• Special Reports

 

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 on blood diseases and related disorders. Please visit the Patients 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 e-mailing a request to the Blood Editorial Office. The request should include the following information:

• Article citation information, including author(s), title of article, issue date & page number (example: Shadman and Davids, How I treat patients with CLL after prior treatment with a covalent BTK inhibitor and a BCL-2 inhibitor, October 23, 2025, p. 2029). All citation information can be found with the article or abstract information online.
• Your name and email address
• Name of treating physician (optional)

 

Author Choice

Authors have the option of making their article immediately and freely available upon publication for a fee of $5,500. Authors who opt for Author Choice will complete the standard Copyright Transfer Agreement assigning copyright to the American Society of Hematology, and the journal will then publish the paper under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license, which allows for noncommercial, nonderivative use of the article and requires appropriate credit to the authors. Authors whose institutions or funders require publication under a CC BY license may request a CC BY license instead. ASH will deposit the final published version of the article into PubMed Central and ensure free and immediate access to the article on the journal websites. 

 

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 viewing an access-controlled article page without a subscription.