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 and are submitting to a journal that is not fully open access, it is advisable that you include a Submission Statement in your submitted manuscript (see p.3 of UKRI's Open Access Policy for example text). This statement is a compulsory requirement for submissions acknowledging Wellcome Trust funding (known as a Rights Retention Statement; more details here). If you are funded by either Wellcome Trust or UKRI and would like more information 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 2025 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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Your article should then be deposited in DRO prior to publication
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SummaryAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) Read and Publish agreement.
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. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered
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SummaryWe have signed up to the Jisc Read & Publish deal with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to 31st Dec 2025. 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, Brief Communication, Communication, Conference Article, Perspective, Review. For other article types please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk 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
Titles not included in deal
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. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryThe American Meteorological Society have committed to automating an open access workflow for current Durham corresponding authors submitting eligible research and accepted for publication between 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2024. The eligibility criteria are as follows: Eligible authors Identified as the corresponding author via their affiliation and email address. AMS define the corresponding author as: the author handling the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process, who has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors regarding the publication of the manuscript. Authors will need to:
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Deal TypeInterim agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered. Please note that no other charges (e.g. extra page charges) are included. |
How the agreement worksAMS have committed to identifying eligible articles based on the criteria above and will automatically opt authors into gold OA publication where these criteria have been met. All eligible articles will be published with a CC BY license, thus supporting researchers in complying with the UKRI Open Access Policy, as well as other mandates. |
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Please get in touch with the Open Access team if you have any further questions.
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Summary:The transitional offer provides unlimited open access publishing to current Durham University-affiliated corresponding authors in APS' hybrid journals to 31st December 2025. |
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Eligible authors:Identified via their affiliation to a JISC member institution and affiliation. Authors will need to:
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Eligible article types:Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, and Short Papers. |
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Deal Type:100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered. Please note that no other charges (e.g. extra page charges) are included. |
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How the agreement works:APS have committed to identifying eligible articles based on the criteria above and will automatically opt authors into gold OA publication where these criteria have been met. All eligible articles will be published on an Open Access CC BY license with authors retaining copyright. UKRI-funded authors are still required to include a Submission Statement at the point of submission (see p.3, UKRI Open Access Policy). |
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APS have advised that they are currently finishing an upgrade to their submissions system. This will allow authors to see their eligibility for the agreement at the point of submission. This update is due to go live w/c 4th March 2024. Please get in touch with the Open Access team if you have any further questions. For papers which report original research in high energy physics, the existing SCOAP3 agreement still applies: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201712/scoap3.cfm. |
SummaryFrom 1st January 2021 to 31st Dec 2024, Durham corresponding authors can publish open access in the American Physiological Society's 12 hybrid journals:
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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 |
SummaryThe transitional one-year pilot offer provides capped open access publishing to current Durham University-affiliated corresponding authors publishing in 87 hybrid APA titles, 15 hybrid Hogrefe titles, plus 25% APC discount in 3 fully OA Hogrefe journals. See APA Eligible Titles for a list of included titles. Deal duration 1st August 2023 – 31 July 2024 Eligible article types Original peer-reviewed research articles or review articles (book reviews are not eligible). Authors affiliated with UK institutions participating in APA’s Jisc agreement may publish open access in one of APA’s 88 hybrid journals with no Article Processing Charge due by the author/s, provided that:
The agreement does not cover any additional publication charges (e.g. extra 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 authors directly. This agreement is currently subject to a sector-wide publishing cap. We recommend that authors contact us via openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk to seek up-to-date guidance at the point of acceptance. APA will also deposit qualifying Version of Record articles (published articles) funded by Wellcome Trust, UKRI, and NIHR to PMC, which gets mirrored on Europe PMC. You can find more about this agreement on APA’s webpage Licence choice All articles under this agreement will be published under the CC BY copyright license. Upon publication, articles will be made immediately open access. Durham-affiliated corresponding authors are also entitled to zero embargo green open access and may attach a CC-BY licence to the accepted manuscript. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
How to use:Authors who meet the above requirements can submit their manuscript via the submission portal of the selected journal. Upon submission, the corresponding author must provide funder information and a Ringgold affiliation ID. If the submission is accepted, authors will be ushered through an open access and copyright approval process. For more information about this process, please see APA's Author Workflow. Please get in touch with the Open Access Team if you have any questions. |
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
From January 2023, and where Subscribe to Open titles flip to fully Open Access journals:
Where titles do not flip to fully open access:
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‘For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising.’ Where permitted by UKRI, ‘Open Government Licence’ or ‘Creative Commons Attribution No-derivatives (CC BY-ND) licence may be stated instead. As Annual Reviews do not currently have a funding acknowledgement section for submissions to all Annual Reviews titles, grant details should be added to the ‘Disclosure Statement’. |
SummaryWe are signed up to ‘ACM Open 2023-2025 Agreement’ which offers open access publishing to current Durham University-affiliated corresponding authors publishing in ACM journals until 31/12/2025. Eligible authors: Current members of Durham University, identified by their use of institutional email address and affiliation at the point of submission and in any correspondence with the publisher Eligible publications: see The ACM Full-Text Collection Eligible publication types: Journal, magazine, and conference proceedings
Licence options: Authors will be offered a choice of licence.
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Deal TypeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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Please note that, when completing the eRights Form after acceptance, you will be given three licencing options: 'Institutionally Paid Open Access', 'Exclusive Right to Publish' and 'Copyright Transfer'. Only authors who opt for 'Institutionally Paid Open Access' will benefit from gold open access publication under the terms of the agreement. Please see the attached PDF guide (below) for the full author workflow and please get in touch with the Open Access team if you have any further questions. |
SummaryWe have signed up to the Brill Journals Read and Publish deal via Jisc to 31st December 2024.
The Agreement offers current Durham corresponding authors uncapped OA research article publishing in all of Brill’s journals (including gold titles) and includes all journal titles acquired by Brill during the course of the agreement. For more information see Brill's webpages. |
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 current Durham corresponding authors. To be eligible, articles must:
Green-by-Exception: Cambridge University Press also offer an alternative route to immediate open access publication for Durham authors publishing in their subscription-only journals, known as ‘Green-by-Exception’, which operates on the condition that we, as an institution, subscribe to the journal of publication (please check with us if you are unsure whether this is the case). ‘Green-by-Exception’ also permits funded Durham authors publishing in CUP’s hybrid journals (who are not the named corresponding author so are not covered by our TA for gold Open access but who still require a compliant route to publication) to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) into Durham Research Online with a CC BY licence and no embargo. Corresponding authors will continue to publish as gold open access, as above. |
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. |
SummaryThe Cold Spring Harbor Journals "Read and Publish" Agreement gives Durham University corresponding authors open access publishing for their research and review articles under a CC BY licence in the following journals: Fully peer-reviewed research, review, and case-study articles, accepted for publication, are eligible for Open Access publishing. Editorials, comments, protocols, methods, and similar material are not eligible. The current agreement runs from 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2024. More information is available on the publisher webpages. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs are covered. |
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SummaryThe Company of Biologists' Read and Publish Transitional Agreement gives Durham University corresponding authors open access publishing for their research articles under a CC BY licence in the following journals:
The current agreement runs from 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2024 |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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Further information is available for accepted publications from the publisher here. Please get in touch with the Open Access Team if you have any questions. |
SummaryDurham University has signed up to De Gruyter's Read and Publish deal to 31 December 2024 which offers open access for articles by Durham corresponding authors in De Gruyter's hybrid journals (fully open access titles are not included). Eligible article types
Additional information is available from the publisher's website. De Gruyter also confirms that 21 journals are publishing this 2024 volumes in open access via Subscribe to Open. A list of these journals is available at the bottom of this guide. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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SummaryThe transitional offer provides unlimited open access publishing to current Durham University-affiliated corresponding authors in Elsevier's hybrid journals including the Cell Press and Lancet titles. Deal duration 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2024 Eligible article types for Elsevier's Core hybrid journals Research and Review articles are covered. Case Reports / Data in Brief / Microarticle / Original Software Publication / Protocol / Replication Study / Short Communication / Short Survey / Video Article / Practice Guideline Eligible article types for Cell Press and Lancet titles These vary and may not include Review articles. Please contact us to check before requesting open access through the agreement. Licence choice Immediate open access under CC BY and CC BY-NC-ND terms in the Eligible Journals (ensure that you select the CC BY licence if your funder requires this e.g. UK Research Councils and Wellcome Trust). The implications of selecting a CC BY-NC-ND license with Elsevier are further explored in this article: Exclusive Right to Publish? (European Science Foundation, 2022). 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. You can find more about this agreement on Elsevier's webpages, including their journal checking tool. 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 until 31st December 2023. 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, or, where applicable, a successful application to the Institutional Open Access Fund has been made. |
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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.
Ensure that you deposit the accepted version into DRO with the submission statement included within that document. It would also be helpful if you could email the DRO Team to alert them to your funding acknowledgment and to confirm that you have been in touch with IEEE directly at acceptance (see "What to do" below). |
Deal typeRights Retention for open access compliance |
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:
You may find it useful to use the following text: I am the corresponding author and/or PI of the UK Research Council grant acknowledged in the following paper: CITATION To meet the requirements of the new UKRI Open Access Policy, I will be assigning a CC BY licence to the accepted manuscript and depositing this into our institutional repository (DRO) where it will be made openly available with no embargo.
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. |
SummaryWe are part of the IOP and Jisc Collections agreement which enables Durham corresponding authors to publish their work Open Access in IOP's hybrid journals at no cost to themselves. Please note that this does not include all of their society partner journals so it is important to check the list of eligible journal titles here (titles in lists A, B, and D are relevant to Durham authors.) Term of agreement: - *Sept 2023 update: Applied Physics Express is moving to a fully open access publication model from 1st January 2024. The publisher has confirmed that APEx will remain as included in our Publisher Agreement, but under the terms of their other fully gold open access journals from this date (list D). Eligible article types Research papers, special issue papers, review articles and letters Further details can be found on the publisher's website and in the document below. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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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 to 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:
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 2024 |
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SummaryThe transitional agreement provides open access publishing to corresponding authors publishing in 10 Optica hybrid and fully open access journals. This deal offers unlimited publishing in year one of the agreement (2022) with a consortium cap applicable in years two and three (2023-24). Further information about the agreement is available on the publisher's website. Eligible journals are as follows:
Authors affiliated with UK institutions participating in this agreement may publish open access in one of the above journals with no Article Processing Charge due by the author/s, provided that:
The agreement does not cover any additional publication charges (e.g. extra 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 authors directly. |
Deal type:Transitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered Licence choice: All articles under this agreement will be published under the CC BY copyright license. Upon publication, articles will be made immediately open access. Rights Retention Statement position:
"Optica Publishing Group will work with authors who are not covered by the transitional agreement on a case-by-case basis to ensure their papers are published according to their funder requirements".
For authors not currently covered by the terms of above deal seeking a compliant route to publish, we recommend authors to get in touch via openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk. We can liaise directly with Optica to support you in finding a compliant route to publication. |
How to use:The following information has been provided to us directly from the publisher: The publisher is responsible for the identification of Eligible Authors. If authors have not provided data to identify their eligibility at submission, identification of eligibility to publish open access under this Agreement is not guaranteed by Optica. To access this deal:
The publisher advises that authors' accurate use of their institutional email address AND selection of their affiliation will be used to determine author eligibility under the terms of the agreement. If you have any questions, please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk. |
SummaryOUP and a number of UK institutions have agreed a Read and Publish deal for 2024-25. 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 for OUP's hybrid and fully OA titles.
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 doOUP have moved to a new licensing and online payment portal (SciPris) for 2024. Authors will be guided through a different workflow to that used during 2021-23 agreement. Please see the guidance here (if there is a fee mentioned on the system please contact us before completing your agreement). 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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SummaryWe have signed up to the "Flat Fee" model to 31 December 2024 which means that Durham-affiliated corresponding authors will not have APCs to pay in the following journals:
Licence Options Accepted articles will be published with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. |
Deal typeFully Open Access – Flat Fee |
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 (selection dropdown can be found in the 'Additional information' section of the submission form in 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. A useful 'Quick Submissions Tutorial' guiding authors through the submissions process is available here. Additional detailed instructions have been provided by the publisher at Flat Fee Author Guide - Google Slides Please note that PLOS have recently updated us (06.04.23) with the following information: Editorial Manager now includes a new screen prior to submission that shows expected fees related to the submission. For now, this shows the standard APC for the journal and article type, but soon this will show the correct amount payable by the author under their institutional agreement (note: even in the case this is $0). The author needs to click a button on this screen to move through to submission. If you have any questions, please contact the Open Access Team at openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk |
SummaryPortland Press have a deal with JISC which Durham corresponding authors are eligible to use to 31st December 2025. The deal covers both hybrid and fully gold titles. APC-free OA publication can take place in all seven Portland Press journals: Eligible Research journals
*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. Licence options A CC BY licence will apply. More information, including FAQs, can be found here. |
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SummaryWe are signed up to the Jisc-negotiated "Royal Society Read & Publish Transitional Agreement" until 31st December 2024. 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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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 Full author journeys can be found in the documents below. |
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 until 31st December 2024. Eligible articles All peer reviewed article types are eligible for publication in this agreement and these fall into three main categories: full papers, communications, and reviews. Editorials and Corrections are not covered. Further information on article types is available via the publisher’s website. Licence options The publisher offers authors a choice of CC BY (default) or CC BY-NC licences.
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. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement (for hybrid/subscription journals - 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered) Plus 15% discount for open access journals. |
How to useWhat to do (from RSC)
Please contact openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk with any questions. |
SummaryStart and end date: 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2024 Eligible journals Durham corresponding authors publishing an article in 1000+ subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package, as well as in the IMechE Journal Collection (18 titles) and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection (28 titles), which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice) can be published open access, at no cost to them. You will find a spreadsheet of participating journals via the publisher's website. Corresponding authors publishing an article in a gold open access journal are also entitled to a 20% discount on the prevailing article processing charge (APC) on 150+ pure Gold journals. Click here for the participating Gold journal title list. Eligible article types Research articles, review articles, case reports. Book reviews and invited articles are not covered by the deal. Licence option CC BY offered by default
More information can be found on the Sage website. |
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 Society for Neuroscience Transitional Agreement Pilot 2024 offers unlimited read access to The Journal of Neuroscience. Open access publishing is unlimited for corresponding authors at participating institutions for all article types, under CC-BY licence terms. Deal duration 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 Eligible article types Original, peer-reviewed research articles or review articles. Corresponding authors affiliated with Durham University may publish open access in ohe Journal of Neuroscience with no Article Processing Charge due by the author/s, provided that:
The agreement does not cover any additional publication charges (e.g. extra 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 authors directly. Society for Neuroscience commit to the immediate deposit of the Version of Record in PMC and Europe PMC following issue publication. Licence choice All articles under this agreement will be published under the CC BY copyright license. Upon publication, articles will be made immediately open access. All authors retain the right to deposit their author accepted manuscripts in open access or other repositories, under any license. |
Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
How to use:The publisher is responsible for the identification of Eligible Authors. If authors have not provided data to identify their eligibility at submission, they are not guaranteed to be identified as eligible to publish open access under this Agreement.
Please get in touch with the Open Access Team if you have any questions. |
SummaryThe Springer Compact Read and Publish Agreement 2023-25 for UK institutions enables eligible articles accepted for publication in Springer Open Choice (hybrid) journals between 01 January 2023 and 31 December 2025 to be open access and automatically compliant with funder requirements. This agreement provides unlimited open access publishing for eligible authors of member institutions and applies a CC BY licence by default to all published articles. For information on Springer Nature Research (hybrid) titles see our Springer - Nature Research Guide. For information on 15% discount available for Durham-affiliated corresponding authors on APCs charged by Springer Nature Fully Open Access titles see our Springer - Nature Research Guide |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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What to doWhen completing the online form at acceptance, under Your University / Institution select "University of Durham (Durham | United Kingdom)" from the drop-down list. The Your open access option' dialogue box will then appear. Select "Yes, I want to publish my article with open access and my institution covers the charge". Please be assured that if you see this message that neither you nor your department will be charged for the APC. Springer will then notify the Library's Open Access Team for verification that the author is affiliated with Durham. Once verified, the publisher will proceed with publishing your paper gold open access. Further details of the Author Workflow journey are available in the PDF linked below. If you are acknowledging external funding from a UK Research Council or Wellcome Trust, we also advise authors to include a Rights Retention statement in their manuscript at the point of submission to hybrid titles (this is a requirement for both funders) and in any correspondence with Springer. This does not apply to fully OA titles. If you have any questions, please email openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk
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SummaryThe Springer Nature Research Read and Publish Agreement 2023-25 for UK institutions enables eligible articles accepted for publication in Springer Nature Research (hybrid) journals between 01 January 2023 and 31 December 2025 to be open access and automatically compliant with funder requirements. This agreement provides capped open access publishing for eligible authors of member institutions and applies a CC BY licence by default to all published articles. There are a finite number of APCs available to all HEIs that are signed up to the agreement. We are unable to guarantee, therefore, that there will be availability at the point a paper is accepted. More information on the University's stance on publishing in Springer Nature Journals can be found here. *Please note this agreement does not include APC coverage of Springer Nature fully open access journals, although APCs charged by these journals are subject to a 15% discount for Durham-affiliated corresponding authors. For details of how to access this discount see section 'What to do'. For information on Springer Open Choice (hybrid) titles see our Springer Compact Guide. |
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Eligible authorsThe first-named corresponding author of participating institution, identified through use of their Durham affiliation and institutional email address in submission process |
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Eligible Article TypesResearch articles which are ‘Original Papers’ (which may also be referred to as analysis, brief communications, registered reports and technical reports) |
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Eligible journals37 Nature Research Hybrid journals. See Excel document Nature Research - included titles for full list. |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
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What to doFor Springer Nature Research (hybrid) titles:
For Springer Nature Fully Open Access titles (15% discount applied to APC list price only):
If you have any questions, please email openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk
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SummaryWe have signed up to the Taylor & Francis Read & Publish 2024-25 agreement to 31st December 2025. Through this deal, current Durham-affiliated corresponding authors can publish gold open access in Hybrid (defined as 'Open Select'), Fully OA, F1000 Research and Routledge Open Research titles* when meeting the following criteria:
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered |
What to do
If you are funded by a UKRI 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. |
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Deal typeTransitional agreement: 100% of the cost of eligible APCs covered. Please note that a small number of Wiley journals still carry submission, page and colour charges for publishing - these additional costs are not covered by this agreement. More details of these charges are available in the attached file 'Other Article Charges' (see below). |
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 (including screenshots for submitting to both a fully open access journal and a hybrid journal). Licence choice If you are acknowledging funding from UKRI 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. |