Publisher deals

Oxford’s agreement allows corresponding authors to publish an agreed number of articles open access in any hybrid subscription titles. AIP’s open access journals (AIP Advances, APL Bioengineering, APL Materials, APL Photonics, Structural Dynamics and Matter and Radiation at Extremes) are not included in the deal.

Please select Oxford as an institutional affiliation and choose a CC BY licence.

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles and review articles 'gold' open access in open access journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and choose the CC BY publication licence.

Corresponding authors of eligible articles will be offered a one-year APS membership to the Society, free of charge (new members only).

This agreement covers APCs for eligible funded* original research articles published in BMJ’s Standard Collection of subscription-based journals. BMJ will automatically refer Oxford authors to the institutional dashboard. Further information can be found here: UK open access agreements landing page – BMJ Author Hub

*UKRI, Wellcome Trust , British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinson’s UK, Versus Arthritis

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles and review articles open access at no extra cost in all Brill journals (329 titles including 24 fully open access). Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and choose the CC BY publication licence.

Please see this link for Brill's information for authors

The transformative agreement provides access to over 400 journals with unlimited publishing in eligible titles.

Open access publishing covered under this read and publish agreement includes: research, review articles and rapid communications (RRR), plus brief report and case reports article types, which are often linked to research articles.

Non-eligible articles include: abstracts, addendums, article commentary, book reviews, books received, calendars, collections, commentaries, contents, correction, corrigendum, discussion, editorial, erratum, in brief, introduction, letter, meeting report, news, obituary, oration, product review, reply, retraction.

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish in hybrid and gold journals. Check if your journal is eligible here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/waivers-discounts

Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles, and choose a CC BY license.

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles and review articles open access at no extra cost in the Company of Biologists' three subscription (hybrid) journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology.
Fully open access journals are not covered. Authors still have to pay article processing charges (APCs) to publish in Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process, and select the CC BY publication licence.

Company of Biologists Read and Publish Agreement.

This deal covers open access publication for Oxford-affiliated corresponding authors in most hybrid journals in Elsevier, Cell Press and The Lancet collections (some exceptions apply). Fully gold APCs are eligible for a 15% discount. Please choose a CC BY license and list Oxford as your affiliation when requested.

A searchable list of of participating journals can be found here: https://agreements.journals.elsevier.com/jisc

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles and review articles 'gold' open access in hybrid journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and choose the CC BY publication licence.  Authors publishing in fully open access journals should apply for open access support via the usual process.

Geological Society Read and Publish Agreement.

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows open access publishing for University of Oxford corresponding authors in 44 of IoP’s subscription (hybrid) and selected open access journals, without barriers or charges to authors. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence. 

More details are available on the IoP Publishing website.

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles in John Benjamins journals.

Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and please choose the CC BY publication licence.

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish open access in JMIR journals.

Under this agreement, article publication charges (APC) in any JMIR Publications journal will be covered, including any research protocols or methodologies.

During submission authors should state their affiliation, use their Oxford (ox.ac.uk) email and state in their cover letter: “Requesting APC waiver through the Oxford-JMIR unlimited OA deal” to assist with processing.

Authors should choose the CC BY licence when prompted.

This Jisc publish and read agreement allows unlimited open access publishing of research and review articles for University of Oxford corresponding authors in all Microbiology Society journals: four subscription (‘hybrid’) and two fully OA journals, Access Microbiology, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genomics and Microbiology. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Microbiology Society Read and Publish Agreement.

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles and review articles 'gold' open access in over 400 hybrid and fully open access journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and choose the CC BY publication licence. (Some society titles do not offer a CC BY option.) OUP will ask the author to select ‘UK Institutions (Jisc affiliated)’ when completing the online licensing/payment process.

For more details see the Oxford University Press page.

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows unlimited open access publishing of research and review articles for University of Oxford corresponding authors in all Portland Press journals: five subscription (‘hybrid’) and two fully open access journals: Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions, Bioscience Reports, Clinical Science, Essays in Biochemistry, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences and Neuronal Signalling. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Portland Press Read and Publish agreement.

The agreement entitles Oxford authors to publish open access in Royal Society titles. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Further information is available from the Royal Society.

We have an agreement which allows open access publishing for University of Oxford corresponding authors in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s hybrid (subscription) journals.

A 15% discount applies on the open access publication fee for articles above the cap and for articles in any of RSC’s fully open access journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Further details: Read and Publish scheme (rsc.org)

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows unlimited open access publishing of research and review articles for University of Oxford corresponding authors in the majority of SAGE hybrid (SAGE Choice) journals, including the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection. Some hybrid titles are excluded.

There is a 20% discount in their fully gold open access titles. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Lists of participating journals and author instructions can be found at https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/uk-jisc-agreement

The agreement entitles Oxford corresponding authors to publish fully open access in most hybrid Springer, Nature and Palgrave journal titles. Fully gold APCs are eligible for a 15% discount. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Eligible journals can be found here: Open access agreement for UK | Open research | Springer Nature

This agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish research articles in over 2,000 hybrid ‘Open Select’ journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address when submitting articles to the journal, and choose the CC BY publication licence.

For more details see Publishing open access with Open Select – Author Services (taylorandfrancis.com).

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows unlimited hybrid journal open access publishing of research articles for University of Oxford corresponding authors in selected journals.

Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process and select the CC BY publication licence.

Pure open access journals are not included in the agreement.

This Jisc read and publish agreement allows University of Oxford corresponding authors to publish primary research and review articles open access at no extra cost in all Wiley journals. This means that the agreement covers article processing charges for both hybrid (subscription) and fully open access journals. Authors must use their Oxford University email address during the submission process, and select a CC BY publication licence.  

Lists of participating journals (fully open access and hybrid OnlineOpen) and author instructions can be found on the Wiley open access agreement for Jisc institutions webpage.

This deal allows all Oxford affiliated corresponding authors to publish research articles, reviews and conference papers in selected hybrid journals.

Please choose CC BY and list Oxford as your affiliation.

NOTE: This agreement does NOT cover Wolters Kluwer (Law) journals.

Edinburgh University Press journals allow authors to deposit the author accepted manuscript version of their article in their institutional repository (i.e. ORA) with no embargo. This green open access route is compliant with funder policies including UKRI.

Authors are permitted to post their accepted manuscript with a Creative Commons user licence (CC BY licence by default or CC BY-ND on agreement by the funder). The posting should include a prominent statement that the article has been accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press in the journal, together with a link to the EUP website for the journal.

For full details, see EUP’s page Archiving and social sharing.

Please note that authors may deposit the accepted manuscript version in a non-commercial disciplinary repository one year after publication. This deposit would not be compliant with funders who require zero embargo.

We have signed a centralised invoicing arrangement with Frontiers.  The arrangement offers a 10% discount on open access fees for eligible papers. To be eligible, authors must be affiliated with the University of Oxford.

To submit your article under this agreement, please select ‘University of Oxford’ as the payer in the invoice section when submitting your article.  Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the University of Oxford and, if confirmed, the APC will be paid by the University upon acceptance.

Please note, the institution only has funding to cover the full OA charge for WT, CRUK, BHF and UKRI funded authors. For those without, the remaining 90% would be the author's responsibility.

Oxford has signed up as a supporter of the KOALA project, an initiative of several German academic institutions, to provide diamond open access to 6 journals:

• Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations
• SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics
• Logical Methods in Computer Science
• Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
• TheoretiCS
• Epijournal de Géométrie Algébrique

For further information on the scheme, visit the KOALA website

Peer Community Journal is a diamond open access journal edited by the non-commercial Peer Community in (PCI) organisation. It publishes articles evaluated and recommended by PCI, without further peer review at no cost for authors and readers. This journal currently deals with all fields of evolutionary biology, ecology, zoology, neuroscience, palaeontology, animal science, archaeology, genomics, mathematical and computational biology, network science, forest and wood science, biotic interactions, ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry. Peer Community Journal also publishes articles based on registered reports dealing with all physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Learn more about PCJ on their website.

10% discount for open access journal Science Advances.

• When completing the ‘author charge’, click ‘Apply Discounts’
• Under ‘Affiliation discount,’ enter ‘The University of Oxford’.

Oxford University has signed up as a supporter of SciPost, a non-profit foundation that has developed and maintains a diamond open access journal infrastructure. SciPost publishes several journals and allows academic teams to use the infrastructure to run their own journal.

Learn more about SciPost on their website.

SCOAP is a consortium of libraries, funders and research organisations enabling researchers to publish open access for ‘free’ in certain High-Energy Physics journals including the Journal of High Energy Physics. It is hosted by CERN and Oxford University is one of the contributing UK institutions.

Subscription journals are converted to open access through re-direction of subscription funds. Authors of High-Energy Physics articles in participating journals get immediate open access at no direct cost.

A list of the journals and publishers covered is at https://scoap3.org/phase2-journals/. 

This agreement allows Oxford-affiliated corresponding authors to publish research articles in the following diamond journals:

• The Undergraduate Journal of Politics and International Relations
• The Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies
• Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature

Visit WRUP’s website for more information.