Publisher open access agreements

The Library has singed up to a new three year Read and Publish agreement with ACS allowing corresponding authors from Edinburgh to publish open access in all ACS journals, including ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au collection, and all ACS hybrid journals for no fee. To ensure your article is included in our agreement, please ensure the following,

• Use an affiliated university email address and select University of Edinburgh from the drop-down box.
• Confirm that the institutional affiliation stated in the body of the manuscript is the corresponding author’s affiliation.

https://acsopenscience.org/open-access/purchasing-open-access/publish-open-access-read-publish-agreement/

The library has a new Read and Publish agreement with AIP which runs from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023. Corresponding authors from Edinburgh can publish open access in any of AIP's hybrid subscription titles. 

To ensure your article is included in our agreement, please follow these steps

1. Double-check that you are listed as the corresponding author, both in the online submission system and in your manuscript.
2. You’ll be asked to select your institutional affiliation as part of the submission process.
3. Upon acceptance of your manuscript, you will be able to choose and sign the CC BY

American Institute of Physics Read and Publish agreement

The Library has signed up to a two year agreement which runs from January 2023 until 31 December 2024. Corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh can publish open access at no additional cost in the following titles

• Journal of Endocrinology
• Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
• Endocrine-Related Cancer
• Reproduction 

Bioscientifica's other titles are not included in this Read & Publish deal and authors will have to pay individual Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish in those journals.

The Library has signed up to a two year agreement which runs from January 2021 until 31 December 2022. Corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh can publish in all of Brill's journals (including Gold titles).

Submit your article to your journal contact at Brill with the request to publish in Open Access and indicate that you are an author affiliated with one of the eligible institutions in the United Kingdom. Once the article gets accepted it will be published in Open Access right away and free of charge.

If you submit your article through Editorial Manager, you will be asked during the submission process whether you are eligible for the agreement. Once the article is accepted, it will be published in Open Access right away and free of charge.

The library has signed a new Read and Publish transitional agreement with Bristol University Press which runs from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023, the agreement covers all Bristol University and Policy Press titles and applies to corresponding authors from Edinburgh publishing original peer-reviewed research. (Other research outputs may be considered in line with funder policy mandates.)

The University has a four year capped agreement with Cambridge University Press which runs from 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2024. This agreement applies to corresponding authors at the University of Edinburgh publishing original research articles.

The library has renewed the transitional agreement for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press journals until December 2024.  This agreement offers corresponding authors from Edinburgh unlimited open access publishing for research and review articles in the following journals,

• Genes & Development 
• Genome Research 
• RNA 
• Learning & Memory
• Molecular Case Studies

The library has signed  a new agreement which runs from January 2022 until December 2024 allowing corresponding authors at the University of Edinburgh to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in the Company of Biologists three 'hybrid' journals plus their two fully open access titles:

• Development
• Journal of Cell Science
• Journal of Experimental Biology
• Biology Open 
• Disease Models & Mechanisms

The Library has signed up to a new 3 year agreement with De Gruyter which runs from 1 January 2021 until December 2023. The traditional journal subscription fee has been 'flipped' to a publishing agreement. This agreement allows corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh to publish open access in research and review articles at no additional cost.

The library has signed  a new Read and Publish agreement with Elsevier which runs from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024. Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Edinburgh may publish primary research articles in any of Elsevier’s participating hybrid journals at no charge to the author.  

Elsevier Read and Publish agreement

We are supporting the EMS Press by participating in their Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative where you can publish open access for no fee in participating journals.

In 2022 EMS successfully converted all 17 of their S2O journals to open access, for 2023, 21 journals are now included in the S20 initiative

2023 EMS S20 journals

Under the terms of the arrangement, eligible European Respiratory Journal articles will be published under a CC-BY open access licence at no cost to the author.

To be eligible, articles must meet the following conditions: 

• Be an Original Article or Research Letter
• Have a corresponding author whose email address (on their ScholarOne account and the to-be-published article) is issued by a participating institution
• Be accepted between 1 January, 2022 and 31 December, 2023, inclusive

https://www.ersjournals.com/ers-transformative-deals

The Geological Society’s Lyell Collection ‘Read & Publish’ Agreement  allows immediate open access publishing of the Version of Record for articles in the 9 hybrid journals and book series in the collection. Open access publishing is unlimited for corresponding authors at the University of Edinburgh, on all article types under CC-BY licence terms until December 2023.  Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address in order to be identified as eligible. The titles included in the agreement are:

• Journal of the Geological Society
• Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology
• Petroleum Geoscience
• Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis
• Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
• Scottish Journal of Geology
• Special Publications
• Memoirs​​​​​​
• Engineering Geology Special Publications​​​​

IOP Publishing (IOP), Jisc Collections and universities within the UK have come to an agreement until 31 December 2023 which enables corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh to publish their work on an open access basis at no additional cost in the majority of IOP’s hybrid journals. Research articles and reviews (letters, papers, reviews and special issue articles) accepted for publication after 1 Jan 2020 are eligible, IOP will automatically identify qualifying articles and inform authors of their inclusion.

IOP Transformative agreement

IWA Publishing has signed a Read & Publish agreement with the University of Edinburgh granting full online access to our journal content and free Open Access publication for affiliated researchers.  If you are an author from Edinburgh, you are eligible for a full Open Access waiver. To qualify for the waiver during the submission process, please ensure that you are listed on your article as the corresponding authors and that you include your full institutional affiliation and associated e-mail address. 

IWA Publishing Read and Publish agreement

Affiliated corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh can publish open access with the Microbiology Scoiety for no extra cost.  Corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh will be identified using their email domains. Where a corresponding author’s email domain matches that provided for a Publish and Read institution, we will ask the author to sign our standard CC-BY Creative Commons licence and will publish their article OA without further charge, and without embargo. Authors retain the right to opt out of publishing their articles as OA.  Please visit the Microbiology Society web pages for more information on how to take advantage of the agreement:

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/fee-free-open-access

The Library has signed up to a three year agreement with Oxford University Press which runs from 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2023. The agreement allows unlimited open access publishing for corresponding authors from University of Edinburgh.

Follow these steps to choose an Open Access licence and ask University of Edinburgh to pay: 1. Log into the Oxford Journals Author Services site. 2. Choose an Open Access licence to publish - CC BY is the preferred option. 3. Select 'Scottish institutions (SHEDL affiliated)' from the dropdown list of institutions, check the 'Refer Charge?' box next to the open access charge, and proceed. 4. Provide the additional information requested and complete.

More detailed information is available from the OUP website or in the downloadable user guide below:

OUP Read & Publish Guide (1.09 MB PDF)

Corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh will have their manuscripts (if accepted following peer review) published open access by default under a Creative Commons license without the need for article-level payments/APCs.

Portland Press Read and Publish agreement

The Portland Press unlimited read and publish has been renewed until 31 December 2023 and allows full access to and unlimited open access publishing in the following titles:

The library has signed up to a one year Publish and Read agreement with the National Academy of Sciences. Under the agreement, corresponding authors from Edinburgh may publish research articles (including Brief Reports) open access without incurring article page charges. 

How to take advantage of this agreement:

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Edinburgh, and the author must publish under this affiliation.
• The author should use their institutional email address when submitting their paper, if possible. The author will be asked to validate their institution if a validated institution is not already linked to the author’s user profile.
• If invited to submit a final revision, the author will receive a request to sign the License to Publish once the revision is received. The corresponding author should choose a CC BY license to qualify for this agreement.
• The article must be accepted for publication in PNAS between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023.
• Authors who publish in PNAS always retain copyright ownership or have the ability to set the copyright owner as their institutions when required.

The Library has signed up to a two year, unlimited Read & Publish transitional Agreement covering the three Rockefeller University Press hybrid journals. The deal will run from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023

• Journal of Cell Biology (JCB)
• Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM)
• Journal of General Physiology (JGP) 

To be eligible for the agreement, corresponding authors must be from the University of Edinburgh.

The Library has signed up to an agreement with RSC which runs until 31 December 2024. This agreement makes all articles written by University of Edinburgh corresponding authors open access immediately at no extra cost. The agreement covers articles published in any of the RSC hybrid journals (except Chemistry Education Research and Practice).

To make sure you can benefit from this agreement, please ensure that you:

• Are listed as the corresponding author both in the online submission system and in your manuscript;
• Use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript;
• State your institute affiliation and email address in your manuscript and do not change this after submission;
• DO NOT sign the standard licence to publish during the submission process, you should fill out an open access CC-BY licence which will trigger the open access publication of the article under this agreement

https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access/read-and-publish/

The University of Edinburgh  has signed up to a 1 year ‘Read & Publish’ transitional agreement with Royal Society Publishing which runs from 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023. This agreement allows corresponding authors from the University of Edinburgh to publish in the Royal Society’s full journals package of 8 hybrid and 2 open access journals at no additional cost. Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address in order to be identified as eligible and the agreement applies to all articles submitted from 1 January 2021. 

https://royalsociety.org/journals/librarians/purchasing/read-and-publish/read-publish-agreements/

SAGE has an agreement with the University of Edinburgh to cover open access article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated corresponding authors publishing  an article in participating SAGE subscription journals. The deal will run between 2020 and 2022 and includes back dating to the 1st January. 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) for that journal.

Authors in subscription journals do not need to take any action to benefit from this offer. As soon an institution is set up as part of the agreement, SAGE will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the Open Access agreement with SHEDL and to invite them to the SAGE Open Access Portal to take up the offer as soon as their accepted article has been received into SAGE’s Production department. 

SAGE open access agreement for UK authors

UPDATE: Whilst the 2023 agreement is being finalised SAGE has agreed to grace access until the 28 February, for both the read and publish elements. SAGE will be accepting OA articles for publication until this date.

The University has a Read & Publish agreement with Springer which runs from January 2019 to December 2022.  The traditional journal subscription fee has been 'flipped' to a publishing agreement . Previously, institutions were paying an annual subscription fee and in addition, open access fees for articles to be published under the Gold model in Springer Open Choice journals. This agreement enables all articles published in Springer Open Choice (hybrid) journals to be open access and for access to Springer subscription journals to be maintained. More information is available from the publishers website:

Springer open access agreement for UK authors

UPDATE: As negotiations with Springer continue, Springer have agreed to grace access until the 28 February, for both the read and publish elements. Springer will be accepting OA articles for publication until this date. 

Springer Subscription renewal

The University has a Read & Publish agreement with Taylor and Francis which runs from January 2021 to December 2023. Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Edinburgh can publish open access in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals at no cost to themselves. More information available at:

Taylor and Francis Read and Publish agreement 

Please note there is a limit on the numer of articles that can publish open access in the following T&F journals 

Journals with limited OA credits (503.99 KB PDF)

Corresponding authors affiliated the University of Edinburgh may publish primary research and review articles in any of Wiley’s fully gold Open Access or Wiley’s hybrid, OnlineOpen journals at no further charge to the author. More information including lists of participating journals and instructions can be found online here:

https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/jisc-agreement.html

The library has signed up to a new 3 year Read and Publish pilot with Wolters Kluwer. Corresponding authors from Edinburgh can now publish open access for no fee in Wolters Kluwer's Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection

The library has signed an Institutional Membership with Cogitatio, a fully open access publisher. Corresponding authors from Edinburgh can now publish in any of Cogitatio four journals at no cost. 

• Media and Communication
• Politics and Governance
• Social Inclusion
• Urban Planning

The University of Edinburgh has opted to support the Open Library of Humanities for another year- this time as a Bronze level supporter. This additional support will enable the OLH to continue its growth mission to convert subscription journals to a solid, ongoing, open-access model, with no author-facing charges. Corresponding authors from Edinburgh can publish in any of OLH 27 fully open access journals at no cost.

The University of Edinburgh has a 3 year agreement which runs from  01 January 2021 to 31 December 2023. This agreement allows for uncapped publishing for University of Edinburgh authors publishing in 10 PLOS journals;

PLOS Computational Biology

PLOS Climate

PLOS Digital Health

PLOS Genetics

PLOS Global Public Health

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

PLOS ONE

PLOS Pathogens

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

PLOS Water

Author instructions

The University has a new one year agreement with BMJ which runs from 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023. This new agreement allows corresponding authors at the University of Edinburgh funded by UKRI, Wellcome, CRUK and BHF to publish in any journal with BMJ including any of BMJ's fully open access titles.

The University of Edinburgh holds a central invoicing agreement with Frontiers for authors funded by UKRI, Wellcome, CRUK and BHF. The agreement is effective from 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2023 and includes a 10% discount on APC's.

The University of Edinburgh is part of MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). If you mention funding  from UKRI, Wellcome, CRUK or BHF at the time of submission then the Scholarly Communications Team will be able to pick it up on the membership dashboard and make it open access without any more input from the author.