Publisher agreements

You may be able to publish Open Access (OA) at no further cost in one of our Transitional Agreements. These cover many of the major commercial and society publishers and most are funder agnostic.

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Transitional open access agreements by publisher

• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• American Physiological Society
• American Psychological Association
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Bioscientifica
• BMJ Publishing (fully OA journals)
• BMJ Publishing (hybrid journals)
• Brill
• Bristol University Press and Policy Press
• Cambridge University Press
• Cogitatio Press
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Company of Biologists
• CSIRO Publishing
• De Gruyter
• Elsevier
• European Respiratory Society
• Geological Society of London
• IOP Publishing
• JMIR Publications
• John Benjamins
• Microbiology Society
• Optica
• Oxford University Press
• PNAS/ National Academy of Sciences (expired 31 December 2023)
• Portland Press and Biochemical Society
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Rockefeller University Press
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• Royal Society
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SAGE publishing
• Society for Neuroscience
• Springer Nature
• Taylor and Francis
• Wiley

Subscribe to Open agreements by publisher

Subscribe to Open (S2O) is a model for converting subscription journals to open access, through existing subscription payments with no additional APC charges levied. The University has signed up to a number of S2O agreements, as listed below.

• Annual Reviews
• Berghahn Open Anthro
• Liverpool University Press - Open Planning