We have a range of publisher deals available for Durham authors wishing to publish open access. Many of these deals provide free APCs for Durham corresponding authors; others provide a discount on the APC.
Please note, these deals do not endorse any particular publisher or attempt to influence author choice. They have been signed up to based on the publishing activity of Durham researchers in combination with financial considerations, and are designed to support innovation in Open Access publishing.
If you have any questions about any of the following deals, or would like to enquire about potential agreements with publishers not listed here, please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk.
Transitional Agreements (TAs)
TAs are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. [Plan S - Publication fees, Costs, prices & business models | Plan S (coalition-s.org)]
You may see the term “transformative agreement” or “transitional agreement” or “read and publish agreement” referred to on our webpages or in communications from your publishers. The fees that the Library is paying towards these agreements are covering Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible Durham authors to publish gold open access in a wide range of journals, as well as covering subscription payments to enable non-open access content to be read. The negotiations for these agreements have been done on behalf of UK universities by Jisc Collections and details of their role can be found on their webpages. Who can make use of the agreements? Where you, with a Durham University affiliation, are:
you will find that you can publish fully open access and the cost of the APC will be covered for you. The agreements are available to all current students and staff and are not dependent upon any external funding. If you are acknowledging UK Research Council or Wellcome funding please do still contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk for guidance on compliance with your funder’s open access policies.
How do they work? It is important to note that each of the deals work in different ways and you will need to familiarise yourself with the terms that are relevant to you. Some of the deals are capped (limited to a certain number of APCs across the institutions signed up to the agreement) and so it may not be possible to know until the point of acceptance whether you will be able to publish gold open access through the agreement. You will find the details of our current agreements summarised under the tabs for each publisher and, where available, there will be links to additional information on the publisher’s webpages. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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Fully Open Access – Flat FeeSome fully open access journals and journal/publishing platforms do not charge individual Article Processing Charges (APCs) to authors. Instead, a single invoice is paid annually by an institution and this covers the publishing costs for all eligible authors. |
Fully Open Access – No Author FeesSome fully open access journals and journal/publishing platforms do not charge individual APCs to authors. There are still costs involved with the publication process and these are met through financial contributions from consortia (often universities/university libraries). |
DiscountSome of the deals that we have offer authors a discount on the APCs that they are charged to publish open access in fully open access journals. The remainder of the fee will still need to be paid by the author or, if eligible, from either the Wellcome or UKRI Block Grant. If you wish to apply for funds from either award you are advised to ensure that this is done at the point of submission. |
Subscribe to OpenSubscribe to Open (S2O) is a business model that uses subscription payments to convert paywalled journals to full open access. If institutions continue to pay their subscriptions and support is sufficient, new volumes are published open access under a Creative Commons license; if support is insufficient, the paywall is retained. |
Rights Retention for open access complianceThis is a cost-free way of meeting a funder’s open access requirements for immediate open access. Some publishers have committed to permitting the author accepted manuscripts of funded articles to be deposited in repositories, where they can be made openly accessible from the point of publication with a CC BY licence. |
SummaryAAAS - The American Association for the Advancement of Science Journals OA compliance: AAAS is currently piloting the use of the Rights Retention Strategy for OA compliance. This pilot will run until 31 December 2022 and covers the following hybrid journals:
From January 15, 2021 and on a trial basis, AAAS will allow authors funded by cOAlition S organizations (this includes UK Research Councils and Wellcome Trust) to place a CC BY or a CC BY-ND license (if permitted by the funder) on their accepted manuscripts (which should then be deposited in our institutional repository, DRO). The pilot for cOAlition S-funded researchers ensures these researchers can continue to publish in the Science family journals and comply with their funders open access requirements. This pilot will apply to any eligible research articles submitted to the Science family subscription journals on or after 1 January, 2021. During the pilot the License to Publish authors sign will confirm this policy. The announcement from AAAS can be found here
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Deal typeRights Retention for open access compliance |
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Your article should then be deposited in DRO prior to publication
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SummaryAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) Read and Publish agreement. Eligible authors Corresponding authors whose articles are accepted by ACS qualify to have their articles published under the ACS Read & Publish Program for the respective journal article, if all of the following conditions are met at the time of submission of the manuscript:
Eligible articles All research articles in all ACS journals, including ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au collection, and all ACS hybrid journals. Licence options The publisher offers authors a choice of CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licences.
ACS will submit for deposit of definitive articles of record in PubMed Central. Please note that the agreement does not cover any submission fee, page charges or colour charges. These also cannot be covered by either the UKRI Open Access Block Grant or the Wellcome Block Grant and must be met by the author directly. Rights Retention Statement position (from the publisher):
Whether a manuscript contains a Rights Retention Statement or not, any manuscript submitted by an eligible corresponding author from an institution having a Sub-Licence with Jisc (under agreement between Jisc and ACS), if accepted for publication by ACS, will automatically be published with a CC-BY licence. A Rights Retention Statement does not influence ACS decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of a manuscript. To confirm, ACS would not reject or divert submitted manuscripts from eligible authors due to a Rights Retention Statement on the manuscript. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered
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How to useAuthor workflow, publication process and support materials overview: https://acsopenscience.org/how-to-publish-open-access/ Please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk with any questions. |
SummaryWe have signed up to the Jisc Read & Publish deal with the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Through this deal, Durham corresponding authors can publish gold open access in one of the publisher’s hybrid titles detailed below and the Article Processing Charge (APC) can be covered. Article type covered by the deal: Research article Licence type available: CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) – this licence will meet any external funder’s open access requirements including UKRI and Wellcome Please note that this deal is capped/limited and availability will only be known at the point of acceptance. You will need to indicate at the point of submission that you wish to publish gold open access under the terms of this agreement but if there are no available APCs at the point of acceptance, the publisher will contact you to ask how you would like to proceed. At that point you can opt to publish via the subscribe-to-access route. If you are acknowledging funding from one of the UK Research Councils or Wellcome, please still contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk in relation to your article. Titles included in deal
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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If you have any questions please get in touch at openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk |
SummaryAnnual Reviews is following a 'Subscribe to Open' approach which Durham is supporting. Essentially, this means that libraries subscribe, and if subscription revenue is high enough the following journals will be published open access
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SummaryBrill Journals 2021 Transformative Agreement via Jisc As of 1 January 2021, Durham corresponding authors may publish research and review articles in Open Access in any of Brill's journals, including Gold Full Open Access titles.
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryFrom January 2021, Durham University have signed up to the Cambridge University press deal through Jisc. This allows unlimited publishing in both pure gold open access and hybrid CUP titles for Durham corresponding authors. To be eligible, articles must:
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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More comprehensive details and guidance can be found on the publisher's webpages, the FAQs, and on the step-by-step guide. |
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The current agreement runs from 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022 |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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The current agreement runs from 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022 |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryDurham University has signed up to De Gruyter's Read and Publish deal which offers open access for articles by Durham corresponding authors in De Gruyter's hybrid journals which we have a subscription to. Eligible article types are:
Additional information is available from the publisher's website. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryThe transitional offer provides unlimited open access publishing to Durham University-affiliated corresponding authors in Elsevier's hybrid journals including the Cell Press and Lancet titles.
You can find more about this agreement on Elsevier's webpages. If you are publishing in a fully open access journal you may be able to benefit from a 15% reduction on the APC - please contact the Open Access Team for more information.
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered
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How to usePlease see the PDF below which shows the workflow for Durham corresponding authors who wish to request open access in a hybrid journal. |
SummaryWe currently have an agreement with Frontiers which gives a 10% discount on the cost of the Article Processing Charge (APC) for Durham corresponding authors. To benefit from this discount, the payment of the whole APC needs to be paid centrally by the Open Access Team. This can only be done for eligible papers acknowledging UK Research Council or Wellcome funding. |
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SummaryIEEE recently updated their Green Open Access policy for researchers submitting work funded by UKRI or Welcome Trust. All accepted Journal Article and Conference Papers can be made Open Access in compliance with the UKRI “Route 2” option.
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Deal typeRights Retention for open access compliance
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What to doSo that your article is compliant via Route 2 (the “green” open access route) in accordance with the UKRI Open Access Policy, ensure that you include the following text in the funding acknowledgement section of the manuscript and any cover letter/note accompanying the submission: ‘For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising’
For Wellcome, the Rights Retention Statement should be included: 'This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number xxxxx]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: As an extra step, IEEE also requests that authors email them at copyrights@ieee.org at the point of acceptance with:
Please note that IEEE states that this is the process until this can be built into the normal workflow. IEEE: "If someone forgets to do this we can address it retrospectively. This is a new policy and IEEE need to understand when a CC BY has been applied." Please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk with any queries. |
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Please note that the agreement relates to the Article Processing Charge only and any additional publication charges will not be paid for or discounted. |
SummaryThe Lyell Collection Read & Publish Deal is available for Durham University corresponding authors. Articles published in the following Geological Society of London journals by eligible authors will be published gold open access with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence: • Journal of the Geological Society And book series: Additional information is available from the publisher's website. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
How to useThe following details are from the publisher:
If you are acknowledging funding from one of the UK Research Councils, please still contact us at the point of acceptance so that we can report your paper in the annual grant report to UKRI. If you have any questions or think that your paper should have been published gold open access under the terms of this agreement but has not, please also get in touch.
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The current agreement runs from 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022 |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryThere is currently no JISC-approved Transitional Agreement in place which covers Nature, Nature Research journals and Palgrave journals. Please see the most recent announcements from JISC and Springer Nature. We are aware that some authors may have received an email from SpringerNature on or around the 1st April 2022, which we believe may be misleading and omit some important detail. The below communication supercedes the content of that email. UPDATE: Springer Nature update from JISC (26th May 2022)Springer Nature has been asked to revise and resubmit an application for its Nature Research Journals and Palgrave Journals to become Jisc-approved transformative journals. In its application, made on 14 April 2022, Springer Nature offered deposit of an author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) under CC-BY terms to authors funded by UKRI for a temporary period. Following a review by the content expert group against the sector’s requirements it was agreed that the application did not currently meet the sector’s criteria. This is because the information presented to authors does not equally signpost the option to deposit the AAM alongside the option to publish the Version of Record and pay an article processing charge (APC). Following receipt of the group’s feedback, Springer Nature has indicated it will be revising its application before it is again considered by the content expert group. As such, the costs of APCs for papers submitted to the Nature Research and Palgrave journals after 1 April 2022 remain ineligible for UKRI OA funds. Authors should continue to discuss submissions and publishing options with their institution. SN continues to guarantee a compliant route to publication for these UKRI corresponding authors by offering them the ability to select to deposit their AAM during the period of 1 April to 31 December. This guarantee is independent of these journals being approved as Jisc-approved TJs. Updated guidance to authors from SpringerNature (25th April 2022)Our application for Jisc Transformative Journal status for journals in the Nature or Palgrave portfolio is in progress. In the case that a post April 1st submission is accepted for publication in a Nature or Palgrave journal in 2022 and a UKRI corresponding author wishes to make use of our guarantee of compliance with UKRI requirements, they can contact Springer Nature’s author support team (OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com). Authors can therefore submit to our titles with every confidence that they will be able to meet UKRI requirements. Plan S compliance for Springer Nature authors | Open research | Springer Nature Jisc statement on Springer Nature negotiations (25th April 2022)UK institutions are in negotiation with Springer Nature to secure a transitional open access (OA) agreement for the Nature, Nature research journals and Palgrave journals. A proposal that meets the requirements of the sector has not yet been provided. In accordance with UKRI OA policy, while Springer Nature provides a compliant route to OA publishing in Nature, Nature research journals and Palgrave journals via immediate publishing of the Version of Record OA under a CC BY licence, authors (and their institutions) who submitted manuscripts after 1 April are not able to use UKRI OA funds to pay for article processing charges (APCs) in these titles as they are hybrid journals and not part of a transitional arrangement that meets the sector’s requirements. Springer Nature negotiations aim to secure a transitional open access agreement | Jisc Jisc statement on the eligibility of Nature, Nature research, Palgrave journals to use UKRI open access funding (8th April 2022)UK institutions are in negotiation with Springer Nature to secure a transitional open access agreement for the Nature, Nature research journals and Palgrave journals. A proposal that meets the requirements of the sector has not yet been provided; the latest proposal, for an agreement to start in January 2023, was unanimously rejected by the UUK Jisc content negotiation strategy group and Jisc content expert group. Statement issued by Springer Nature (1st April 2022)
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SummaryOUP and a number of UK institutions have agreed a Read and Publish deal for 2021-2023. Eligible authors from participating institutions in the UK can request use of this account to pay the Open Access charge when arranging payment in OUP’s online licensing and payment system.
NB: If you are in any doubt as to whether your "article type" is covered by this deal please contact the Open Access Team or OUP directly for guidance prior to requesting open access.
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
What to doIf you are funded by one of the UK Research Councils, please email openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk to let us know that you will be publishing gold open access via this agreement. We are required by UKRI to report the open access status of all papers acknowledging their funding. The instructions from the OUP website have been copied below. There is also a useful PDF with screenshots of the process towards the bottom of this page. Ensure that you have checked the list of eligible journals and confirmed that your paper is either "research" or "review" before proceeding.
I'm an eligible author, what do I need to do?To request use of Open Access funds from one of the UK institutions follow the steps below: Step 1
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Any questions Please get in touch with us at openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk or OUP directly at prepayments@oup.com |
SummaryWe have signed up to the "Flat Fee" model which means that Durham-affiliated corresponding authors will not have APCs to pay in the following journals:
Accepted articles will be published with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. |
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Deal typeFully Open Access – Flat Fee |
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What to doPLOS advises: Upon submitting your manuscript to any of the eligible PLOS journals, be sure to list your institutional affiliation in our submission system, Editorial Manager. If your work is accepted for publication, we’ll check this field and ensure that your benefits are applied to waive or reduce any publication fees. Additional detailed instructions have been provided by the publisher at Flat Fee Author Guide - Google Slides
If you have any questions, please contact the Open Access Team at openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk If you are acknowledging funding from one of the UK Research Councils and you are publishing in one of the titles listed above, please contact the Open Access Team so that this can be reported accurately to your funder.
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SummaryDurham University have signed up to the Jisc Publish-and-Read Transformative Agreement with the National Academy of Sciences. Under the agreement, corresponding authors from an institution that has signed up with Jisc may publish open access in PNAS without incurring article page charges. A CC BY license is applied to the article by default. Authors who opt out of publishing their articles with an open access license will be responsible for paying the full PNAS charges for their articles, as outlined in the PNAS Publication Fees. Eligible articles: Research articles, including Brief Reports, accepted on or after the date on which the institution places an order for the agreement. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
How to useThis information has been taken from the publisher's website. We are not familiar with the process itself or what information authors receive directly from the publisher. If you have any questions about this, please get in touch and we can liaise with them on your behalf to find out more.
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APC-free OA publication can take place in all seven Portland Press journals: Research journals: • Biochemical Journal *These are fully OA journals where every paper is published via the Gold OA route. There is, therefore, no option for authors to opt out of OA publishing; however, the papers will be published OA without requirement for payment of any APCs if the article is eligible for OA under a Read & Publish deal. Review journals: • Biochemical Society Transactions
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryWe are signed up to the Jisc-negotiated "Royal Society Read & Publish Transitional Agreement 2022". This deal covers articles that are submitted for publication between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022. Through this deal, Durham University corresponding authors can publish gold open access with a CC BY licence in any of Royal Society's eight hybrid (subscription) journals or the two fully open access journals and the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be covered by this deal:
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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We are awaiting additional information from the publisher regarding the processes for publishing open access under the terms of this agreement. Please get in touch with the Open Access team if you have any questions or you can direct these to publishing@royalsociety.org Additional information about this deal is on the publisher's website: Royal Society Read and Publish | Royal Society |
SummaryThe Royal Society of Chemistry Read & Publish agreement is unlimited and allows Durham University corresponding authors to publish open access in RSC's hybrid journals.
Please note that the agreement does not cover any submission fee, page charges or colour charges. These also cannot be covered by either the UKRI Open Access Block Grant or the Wellcome Block Grant and must be met by the author directly. Rights Retention Statement position:
The RSC will not reject submitted manuscripts or divert manuscripts to alternative journals because they include a Rights Retention statement. Although the RSC strongly encourage eligible authors to follow the gold OA route, where this is not possible, RSC have confirmed that they do not reject or re-route on the basis of an author employing RRS statements. |
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This is a new agreement as of April 2022 and we do not have complete information about the workflow or what happens if your article is already submitted. We will find out more as soon as possible and add to the details on this page. In the meantime, please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk with any questions. |
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The current agreement runs from 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2023 |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement (for hybrid/subscription journals - 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered) Plus 20% discount for pure Gold open access journals. |
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SummaryThe Springer Compact agreement for UK institutions enables articles published in Springer Open Choice (hybrid) journals to be open access and automatically compliant with funder requirements.
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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Through this deal, Durham corresponding authors can publish gold open access when meeting the following criteria:
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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If you are funded by a UK Research Council or Wellcome please ensure that you select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence. If you are acknowledging funding from elsewhere and you are unsure which licence to select, please get in touch and we will do our best to help. The above process is the “default” process and screenshots are also provided in the PDF below. However, if you find that you receive different communications from Taylor & Francis, please let us know and we can talk you through those, if required. |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
What to do:For hybrid/subscription journals:
For fully open access journals:
You will also find guidance on how to request open access on Wiley's webpages (includes screenshots). Licence choice If you are acknowledging funding from a UK Research Council or Wellcome Trust please ensure that you select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence to ensure compliance with your funder's open access policy. If you have any queries in relation to which licence to select, please get in touch.
Further help If you are presented with something other than the steps detailed above or if you have any questions, please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk |