Read and Publish agreements
The agreements are listed below, arranged by publisher. Many have been negotiated nationally for the sector by Jisc, and all allow eligible corresponding authors to publish their work under a CC-BY licence. Usually original research articles are eligible for publishing under the agreements, but other types may be included as well.
For many journal titles there's no extra cost to the corresponding author to publish under an open access licence; for some journals, only a discount is possible. Where a fee may be due, authors must apply for funding before an article is accepted for publication and have plans for alternative means of funding or publication should the application not be successful.
Additional charges (e.g. page and colour charges) may not be covered by these agreements, or by open access funds from public funders. Please check if your journal choice makes additional charges, or ask us to check if not clear.
If you find yourself confused about the terminology there is a glossary, along with a decision tree, on our Open Access FAQs page.
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What is the agreement?
A 10% discount on the open access charge for publishing in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) journal Science Advances, during the term of the agreement (which covers up to 31 December 2025).
How to apply
To obtain the discount for open access publication in Science Advances, the affiliation discount must be applied at point of payment – note it is not applied automatically.
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Once the manuscript is accepted, the author is emailed a link to the author charge page.
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On the article charge page, click the blue ‘Apply discounts’ button.
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In the affiliation discount section, search for ‘University of London Saint George's’ and select it from the list.
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Click the orange ‘Apply discounts’ button and the discount is applied.
To comply with your funder’s open access mandate using the rights retention route:
For authors funded by cOAlition S organizations: on a trial basis AAAS will allow authors who submit articles to AAAS journals from 01 Jan 2021 to place a CC BY license on their accepted manuscripts.
For authors funded by UKRI: we understand that a similar route for open access of accepted manuscripts is possible to enable authors to comply with the UKRI Open Access policy which came into effect April 2022.
A CC-BY-ND licence may be permitted by exception, if prior permission obtained by author from the funder.
Please be sure to include the rights retention statement on your manuscript on submission, and deposit your final author accepted MS in a repository on publication (biomedical research articles that acknowledge MRC or BBSRC funding are required to be archived in Europe PubMed Central). The AAAS License to Publish should reflect the funders policy requirements.
More information
Contact Science Advances by email.
American Heart Association journals are published by Wiley, or Wolters Kluwer. Please refer to the specific entrries below for each publisher.
Please refer to the entry below for Wiley for the following American Heart Association Gold (wholly open access) journals:
- JAHA – Journal of the American Heart Association
- Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology (S:VIN)
Please refer to the entry below for Wolters Kluwer for the following American Heart Association hybrid (subscription) journals:
- Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
- Circulation
- Circulation Research
- Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
- Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
- Circulation: Heart Failure
- Hypertension
- Stroke
What is the agreement?
Our read, publish and join agreement with the American Physiological Society runs until 31st December 2028.
Eligible corresponding authors will be notified that their work can be published under an open CC-BY license without paying article processing charges. They will also be eligible for a one-year APS membership.
Under our Read, Publish and Join agreement there are no further fees charged to the eligible corresponding author. This agreement is unconnected to the Subscribe to Open/flat fee publishing option offered by the publisher.
Which journals are included?
The following APS publishing list (12 titles) are included:
- American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
- American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
- American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
- American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
- American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
- American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Physiological Genomics
- Physiology
- Physiological Reviews
Which articles are eligible?
All article types accepted within the time of the agreement are eligible, and there should be no additional fees for example for colour or additional page charges.
How to apply
First see
Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system. Once recognised, the corresponding author will be given a choice to opt-in to publish their article open access once their article is accepted.
More information
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the American Society for Microbiology’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) model for 2026. Corresponding authors affiliated with legacy St Georges, University of London will be eligible to publish open access under a CC-BY licence. The publisher also levies page charges for publishing in these journals. Page charges are not covered by this S2O agreement. Please be aware that you will need to identify funding for these separately.
Which journals are included?
How to apply
First see
Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
More information
For further information, please see the publisher S2O FAQs, or contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further guidance.
Please refer to the information below in the entry for Springer Nature.
What is the agreement?
For authors submitting an article to BMJ Case Reports, we have fellowship codes for both legacy St George’s, University of London and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The fellowship code will enable you to submit your article to the BMJ.
Please note there is an extra charge for open access publishing; see What will it cost? on the BMJ Case Reports page. Authors must apply for funding before an article is accepted for publication and have plans for alternative means of funding or publication should the application not be successful.
How to apply
Please email us for information about the fellowship codes.
More information
Please contact open access if you require further information.
What is the agreement?
We have renewed our participation in the BMJ Publishing Group read and publish agreement for one year, until the end of December 2026. This is on the same terms as the agreement expiring at the end of December 2025.
Under this agreement, research articles acknowledging specific funders* can be published open access under a CC-BY license at no further direct cost in many BMJ hybrid (subscription journals that also allow for individual articles to be made open access) and fully open access journals.
* Eligibility for affiliated corresponding authors is limited to original research papers which acknowledge grant funding from any of the following funders:
British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Innovate UK, Parkinsons UK, Versus Arthritis, Wellcome Trust, UKRI (Arts and Humanities Research Council; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; Economic and Social Research Council; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Medical Research Council; Science and Technology Facilities Council; Natural Environment Research Council Research England).
If funded by Wellcome and/or Gates Foundation please be sure to include the Rights Retention Statement when you submit your article to the journal.
Which journals are included?
The journals in this deal, including the BMJ and BMJ Open, can be found by visiting BMJ Open Access agreements for UK. Scroll down to the section 'Find out if you are entitled to institutional funding' select for St George's University of London, and then see the list under 'How you can publish with fees covered by your institution'.
Please note: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases and International Journal of Gynecological Cancer have transferred to Elsevier as of 2025, and open access publishing is possible under that agreement, please see the entry for Elsevier below.
Which journals are excluded?
Excluded titles:
- The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons
- BMJ Case Reports (see separate entry on this page for BMJ Case reports)
- Considerations in Medicine
- Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
- Faculty Dental Journal
Note:
The 4 journals below are published by BMJ on behalf of other organisations. They are not included in the BMJ read and publish deal, however, the journals do not currently levy an article processing charges (fee for open access publication):
- eGastroenterology
- Family Medicine and Community Health
- General Psychiatry (GPSYCH)
- World Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Please be aware that the Author licence only offers CC-BY-NC unless you are acknowledging funder which requires CC-BY. Please be sure to check you inform the journal on submission of your funders if they require CC-BY (and include a CC-BY rights retention statement on submission if necessary) and select CC-BY for publication.
Which articles are eligible?
Original articles reporting on primary research as defined by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) article types (including systematic reviews); Review articles (UKRI funded articles only from 1st April 2022). The publisher has produced a breakdown of eligible article types.
How to apply
First see
Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher's system.
More information
Further information can be found via the BMJ Open Access Agreement. Download OA at BMJ author guide and watch the BMJ Journals tutorial (YouTube) showing the steps in submitting your article. Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
Under this agreement, eligible corresponding authors of original research papers can have their work published under an open CC-BY license without paying article processing charges.
Which journals are included?
The journals included in this deal can be found by using the Cambridge University Press eligiblity checker tool.
Which journals are excluded?
Africa Bibliography; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; New Surveys in the Classics; PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; Political Science Today; Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series.
Which article types are eligible?
Research Articles, Review Articles and Rapid Communications (RRR), plus Brief Report and Case Reports article types, which are often linked to research articles.
How to apply
First see
Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
More information
Information on eligiblity and how to publish under the agreement is on the publisher website at OA publishing agreement with JISC, UK. Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
Important update for 2026: this Read and Publish agreement is cancelled with effect from 01 January 2026. If you have any questions please contact open access.
What was the agreement? Our read and publish agreement with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is cancelled with effect from 01 January 2026. Journals that were included until the end of December 2025 were: Genes & Development; Genome Research; Learning & Memory; RNA, for eligible articles which were research/case reports.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the Company of Biologists Read and Publish agreement . The agreement from January 1st 2025 - December 31st 2026 includes publishing under CC-BY licence in their wholly open access journals as well as their subscription journals. There will be no cap on the number of articles that can be published this way for the duration of the deal.
Which journals are included?
The agreement covers publishing in Society’s three subscription journals and two fully OA journals:
- Biology Open
- Development
- Disease Models & Mechanisms
- Journal of Cell Science
- The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Which articles are eligible?
Original research articles & review articles (not book reviews).
How to apply
Please see Eligibility information for authors.
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
More information
For further information, see the publisher's guide for authors page.
Contact open access before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
Under this agreement, eligible corresponding authors have the option to publish open access in all eligible Core Hybrid, Cell Press and The Lancet journals. Articles must have an acceptance date before 31st December 2028. Please note that for the purpose of eligibility under the agreement, there can only be one corresponding author (see the Elsevier FAQ Who is the corresponding author?).
There are two ways that eligible corresponding authors can benefit from this deal:
1] Obtain a 15% reduction on all OA fees in Elsevier fully gold OA journals.
Authors must apply for funding before an article is accepted for publication and have plans for alternative means of funding or publication should the application not be successful.
2] Publish open access in Elsevier's Core hybrid journals (subscription journals which allow for open access publishing of individual articles), Cell Press and The Lancet journals.
If the journal you submit to suggests that your article can be transferred to a different Elsevier journal, please contact us again before agreeing to the transfer, in case you will be liable for open access charges in the journal they suggest.
Which journals are included?
Elsevier have produced a journal look up tool which is on the web page here. Eligible hybrid journals can be found using this tool, but please be aware that fully gold open access journals attract a discount only, and these journals will not show in Elsevier's journal search tool.
A limited number of society-owned journals charge mandatory editorial page fees in addition to APCs. These charges are charged separately, directly to the author and are not covered by this agreement:
- Biophysical Journal
- Gastroenterology
- Journal of Investigative Dermatology
- Kidney International
- Molecular Therapy
- Rangelands
- Rangeland Ecology & Management
- The American Journal of Human Genetics
- The American Journal of Pathology
- The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
- The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
- Transplantation Proceedings
Which journals are excluded?
Elsevier have produced a look up tool which is on the web page here for eligible hybrid journal titles. Please be aware that fully gold open access journals attract a discount only, and these journals will not show in Elsevier's search tool. Non-eligible titles include the following:
- Blood
- Blood Advances
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)
- JACC: Basic to Translational Science
- JACC: CardioOncology
- JACC: Case Reports
Which articles are eligible?
In core hybrid journals: Research and Review articles; Case Reports; Data in Brief; Microarticle; Original Software Publication; Protocol; Replication Study; Short Communication; Short Survey; Video Article; Practice Guideline; Registered Report Article; Registered Report Protocol.
The Lancet journals: When publishing in eligible journals from The Lancet, full length articles are the only eligible article type.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors. Please note that for the purpose of eligibility under the agreement, there can only be one corresponding author (see the Elsevier FAQ Who is the corresponding author?).
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system. Once your article has been accepted for publication in a participating journal, you will receive an email containing a link to what Elsevier describe as the “post-acceptance author journey”. When you select your publishing options, your affiliation will be validated by the Library, and you will be informed if the open access fee will be covered by the agreement.
More information
If you are planning on submitting to an Elsevier journal and considering publishing open access, please get in touch with us before submission should you want to check that the journal is in the scheme, or about the discount for publication in wholly OA journals.
What is the agreement?
Our European Respiratory Society Read and Publish agreement has been renewed up until the end of December 2027. Eligible corresponding authors can have research articles accepted in the European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research and European Respiratory Review published under CC-BY licence at no further cost to. There will be no cap on the number of articles that can be published this way for the duration of the deal.
Which journals are included?
The agreement covers publishing in the Society’s flagship journal European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research and European Respiratory Review.
Which articles are eligible?
Any article type other than a European Respiratory Journal Editorial, an official ERS document or an article which ERS is prevented from publishing open access by another rights holder.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
The publisher asks us to make authors aware that to be recognized as Eligible Authors for open access, they should be prepared to take on the responsibilities of corresponding author, and ensure that their institutional affiliation and institutional e-mail address is correctly entered in the publisher’s submission system.
More information
For further information, see European Respiratory Journal Instructions for authors.
Contact open access before submission to the journal if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the read and publish agreement with the Society for 2025-2026. This means eligible corresponding authors of peer reviewed articles can be published under CC-BY licence at no extra charge to the author. There will be no cap on the number of articles that can be published this way for the duration of the deal.
Which journals are included?
The agreement covers publishing in all the Society’s titles:
- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Journal of General Virology
- Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Microbiology
- Microbial Genomics
- Access Microbiology (note: this is an open access platform, further information here).
Which articles are eligible?
All peer reviewed articles.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
The publisher asks us to make authors aware that to be recognized as Eligible Authors for open access, they should be prepared to take on the responsibilities of corresponding author.
At acceptance, the journal team will check submissions to ensure they agree with the author’s eligibility claim.
The Microbiology Society has produced an author guide, and an author's journey guide .
More information
Contact open access before submission to the journal if you need further advice.
The Microbiology Society can be contacted via email
Please refer to the information below in the entry for Springer Nature.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the OUP read and publish agreement from 1st January 2026 – 31st December 2028. Eligible corresponding authors on original research papers can have their work published under an open access CC-BY license without paying article processing charges. Additional charges (e.g. page and colour charges) may not be covered if a journal levies these. Please check if your journal choice makes additional charges, or ask us to check if not clear.
Which journals are included?
OUP have a list on their webpage for UK Institutions spreadsheet list of eligible hybrid or fully Open Access journals.
Which journals are excluded?
All Karger Journal titles aquired by OUP in 2025 are excluded.
Please contact us in advance of submission if you are considering publication in a special issue. Articles in supplements (i.e. specifically designated issues supplementary to a journal’s usual publication, often sponsored by third parties), are not eligible.
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society
- Astronomy & Geophysics
- Children & Schools
- European Heart Journal Supplements
- Health and Social Work
- Itnow
- Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
- JNCI Monographs
- Journal of American History
- Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
- Journal Of Islamic Studies
- Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
- Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases
- Reproduction
- Shakespeare Quarterly
- Significance
- Social Work
- Social Work Research
- The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
- The Year’s Work in English Studies
- Western Historical Quarterly
Which articles are eligible?
Original research articles, review articles, case reports and brief reports accepted and received into production between 01 January 2026 – 31 December 2028 are eligible.
Please note: articles in supplements (i.e. specifically designated issues supplementary to a journal’s usual publication, often sponsored by third parties), are not eligible.
Please contact us before submission if you are considering publishing a research letter, as different terms and conditions may apply.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system. Corresponding authors must provide their institutional affiliation as their first affiliation at submission. Eligible authors will then be routed on a bespoke workflow for open access publishing under this agreement.
More information
Information from OUP Journals is available here, including this step-by-step guide.
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
Please refer to the information below in the entry for Springer Nature.
Important changes for 2026: We have renewed the PLOS OA Flat Fee Publishing agreement only for 2026-2027.
What is the agreement?
PLOS offer 3 separate agreements for open access publishing. We are renewing for one agreement, covering the journals below. The agreement covers articles accepted for publication during the term of the agreement, and the number of articles which can be published in those journals under the agreement is uncapped.
Which journals are included?
The PLOS OA Flat Fee Publishing agreement covers publishing in these journals:
- PLOS Aging and Health
- PLOS Complex Systems
- PLOS Computational Biology
- PLOS Ecosystems
- PLOS Digital Health
- PLOS Genetics
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS ONE
- PLOS Pathogens
Which journals are excluded?
Excluded for 2026: all other PLOS titles.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
This video shows the relevant steps in the publisher system, there are drop-down menus where you select from a pick list to confirm your institutional affiliation with the legacy institution.
More information
Contact open access before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
This read and publish agreement with the Radiological Society of North America runs from January 2025, expiring 31 December 2026. Under the agreement, eligible corresponding authors can have eligible article accepted in the journals below published under CC-BY licence at no further cost. There will be no cap on the number of articles that can be published this way for the duration of the deal.
Which journals are included?
The journals covered by this deal are:
- Radiology
- RadioGraphics
- Radiology: Artificial Intelligence
- Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging
- Radiology: Imaging Cancer
- Which articles are eligible?
Which articles are eligible?
Original Research, Technical Developments, Case Series, RadioGraphics Full-Length Manuscripts and Data Resources.
How to apply
First please see Eligibility information for authors.
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
More information
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to this journal if you need further advice.
Important update for 2026: this Read and Publish agreement has not been renewed for 2026. If you have any questions please contact open access.
What was the agreement? Our Rockefeller University Press (RUP) and Jisc’s read-and-publish transitional agreement expired at the end of December 2025. For any articles accepted in one of the journals below with an eligible corresponding author during that time, the article could be published under CC-BY licence at no further cost. The fully open access journal Life Science Alliance which RUP co-publish with EMBO Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was not part of this deal.
Which journals were included? The agreement covered publishing in their three subscription journals, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of General Physiology.
Which articles were eligible? Original research articles & review articles (not book reviews): Article, Brief Definitive Report, Communication, Hypothesis, Methods and Approaches, Report, Technical Advances and Resources, and Tools.
What is the agreement?
Eligible corresponding authors on original research articles can have their work published under an open CC-BY license without paying article processing charges.
Which journals are included?
The journals included in this agreement are:
- British Journal of General Practice
- BJGP Open.
Which journals are excluded?
- Publication in BJGP Life, which publishes comment and opinion, excluded from the agreement.
- InnovAiT is published by Sage on behalf of RCGP. Please see Sage entry on this page.
Which articles are eligible?
Research articles.
How to apply?
Please first see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
More information
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
Our Sage read and publish agreement covers eligible articles accepted for publication up to 31 December 2028.
There are two ways eligible corresponding authors can benefit from this deal:
1] Obtain a 20% discount off the list price for open access publication in SAGE Journals’ wholly Gold OA journals (.xlsx file). Authors must apply for funding before an article is accepted for publication and have plans for alternative means of funding or publication should the application not be successful. Also, if a full fee has been paid, the publisher will not be able to refund or part refund an article processing charge (APC) where the discount has not been requested.
2] Publish open access under a Creative Commons licence in SAGE Choice (hybrid) journals at no extra charge.
Which journals are included?
The agreement covers publishing in the journal packages below. For some of these titles the whole open access fee will be covered, for others only a 20% discount where the title is wholly open access:
Terms general to both:
The authors will retain copyright to all authored open access articles. The discount for publishing in the wholly open access journals cannot be combined with other discounts, but the highest discount available to the author will be applied to the APC due.
Which journals are excluded?
- Titles that do not participate in Sage Choice are listed on this page one of which is InnovAiT, the official journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Which articles are eligible?
Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports are eligible.
Excluded article types are: Articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar.
Please note that page charges are waived for the duration of this agreement, however there are some exceptions, which Sage list on this webpage. Optional charges (e.g. for optional colour) are not covered under this agreement. There are some Sage journals that charge submission fees, also not covered under this agreement. Please check via the journal website.
How to apply
First see
Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
Invitations to interact and register with the portal will be sent via automated emails once an article has been accepted following the normal peer review process. Requests via the publishers system will be routed to the Library for verification.
You may be offered a choice of publication under CC-BY or CC-BY-NC licence. If your research article is reporting on research arising from a grant the funder of which requires open access publication, please be sure to: acknowledge the funder(s) and grant(s) in your paper and in the publisher system, and select the CC-BY licence where required.
More information
See Sage Open Access
If you are planning on submitting to a wholly open access Sage journal, please get in touch with us before submission if you have any questions.
Important update for 2026: this Read and Publish agreement is not being renewed for 2026. If you have any questions please contact open access.
What was the agreement? Our Society for Neuroscience Read and Publish agreement expired at the end of December 2025. This meant that eligible corresponding authors had the option to publish their work with an open CC-BY license without incurring charges (as both publication fees and open access fees were covered under the deal).
Which journals were included? The agreement covered the Journal of Neuroscience only.
Which articles were eligible? Research/review articles.
Please refer to the information below in the entry for Springer Nature.
We are participating in open access publishing agreements for 2026-2026 with Springer Nature, which will allow eligible corresponding authors to publish under a CC-BY licence with either a 15% discount in many fully open access journals, or at no direct cost to the author in many subscription journals.
What is the agreement?
For the hybrid (subscription) titles in this agreement, the whole of the open access fee for eligible articles will be covered.
For the fully open access titles covered by this agreement, a 15% discount is possible for eligible articles.
If you are considering submitting to publish open access in a fully open access journal, it is important that you have identified how you will pay open access fees before submission. Guidance on possible funding can be found in the section 'Funds available' towards the end of this page.
It is not necessary to pay extra for colour charges, as eligible corresponding authors can request to have these waived. The usual £50 administration fee applied to invoices for publication in fully open access titles such as BMC will also be waived.
Which journals are included?
Use the journal title in the search box of the publisher Journal Finder tool. Results will show whether a discount or the whole open access publishing charge will be covered. Examples of journals:
Fully open access journals (15% discount only):
- Includes the BMC journals, and the Palgrave, Springer and Nature open access titles covered by this agreement
- For example, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports and Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity are fully OA journals).
Springer portfolio read and publish journals:
- Includes titles such as: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology; International Urogynecology Journal.
Nature portfolio open access and read and publish journals:
- Includes Nature, Nature Medicine; Nature Genetics; Nature Immunology.
- Excludes the Nature Reviews… titles, e.g. Nature Reviews Cardiology.
- Authors can include a rights retention statement to enable green open access for UKRI compliance (see section on Plan S requirements) as necessary.
Which articles are eligible?
In fully open access journals (except Nature portfolio journals) 15% discount:
- Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education
Springer portfolio read and publish journals:
- Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.
Nature portfolio journals (fully OA and read and publish journals):
- When publishing in a Nature Portfolio journal, original paper is the only applicable article type. Articles published under this article type may also be referred to as: Analysis, Article, Letter, Brief Communication, Registered Report, Resource, Technical Report.
Please contact us in advance of submission with any queries.
How to apply:
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system.
If you can say yes to all of these these statements, you are eligible:
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My article has been accepted by a journal included in the Springer Nature agreement.
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I am the corresponding author.
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I am affiliated with an eligible UK institution/university.
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My article matches one of the types outlined above.
On the publisher side, authors submitting to fully open access journals will be asked to confirm at submission that they understand the journal uses an open access model, and so if their article is accepted they must pay an article processing charge (the OA fee minus the discount). See When do I need to confirm that I wish to publish open access via an APC? Springer Nature journal pricing FAQs.
So please be sure you have identified how you will pay the remainder of the OA fee before submission. When generating the invoice, this should include the discount. The usual £50 administration fee applied to invoices for publication in fully open access titles such as BMC should be waived by the publisher.
You will need to identify yourself as an eligible author in at least one of the following ways, and the publisher uses the following order of precedence to determine eligibility:
- By inputting your institutional affiliation when prompted
- By using your institutional email address
- By completing the publisher form within the institution's network
Springer and Library staff will verify your eligibility for open access publishing for the hybrid (subscription) titles in this agreement .
More information
Further information can be found on the Springer Nature UK agreement FAQs.
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the Jisc Taylor and Francis open access agreement, covers open access publishing of original research papers accepted between 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028.
This means that eligible corresponding authors can choose to publish their original research papers under an open access CC-BY license without paying article processing charges.
As well as open access publishing in subscription journals (which Taylor and Francis refer to as 'Open Select' titles), the agreement also includes all fully open access journals, F1000Research and Routledge Open Research.
Which journals are included?
Use Open access cost finder - Author Services (taylorandfrancis.com) as follows:
- Deselect Dove Press titles as these are not covered for publishing under this agreement.
- In the results list, find your journal.
- As long as your article is one of the types covered by the agreement (see below Which articles are eligible), you do not need to click on the 'Calculate your article publishing charge' button.
- If it is not one of the article types below, you may need to fund any open access publishing charge so please contact us before submission so we can advise further.
Authors whose funders require a rights retention statement on their submitted manuscript should include the statement.
Which journals are excluded?
Dove Press titles are excluded from the publishing part of this agreement.
Which articles are eligible?
Research articles: please consult the publisher list of revised article type categories. For F1000Research and Routledge Open Research, the following are covered: including but not limited to: Research Articles, Method Articles, Antibody Validation Articles, Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Clinical Practice Articles, Case Reports, Opinion Articles.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system. Once you receive your author publishing agreement and confirmed your personal details, you will be able to select to publish open access through the institutional agreement.
Once you have signed the author publishing agreement, the Library will be notified of your request. If your request is approved you will then get an email where you can select a Creative Commons license. Please be sure to select the Creative Commons licence as required by your funder.
More information
Further information here and on this graphical overview for the Open Select titles: 'Open your research in 5 steps' (pdf). Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in John Wiley’s read-and-publish (R&P) agreement for 2026-2028.
Under this deal, an eligible corresponding author who is the 'responsible corresponding author' for original research papers will be able to choose to publish open access under a Creative Commons licence (e.g. CC-BY) license without paying article processing charges.
Wiley define the responsible corresponding author as: "the author who manages the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process - from submission through publication. This author has the authority to act on behalf of all the co-authors and will also be the contact for inquiries after publication". Once responsible corresponding author is assigned, Wiley may not reassign this role to another co-author.
There are some journals that continue to levy additional charges (such as page and colour charges) which are not covered under this agreement. Please check whether your chosen journal has additional charges and ensure you have secured funding to meet any such additional charges.
If funded by Wellcome and/or Gates Foundation please be sure to include the Rights Retention Statement when you submit your article to the journal. Wiley advise that eligible authors who declare original research funding during the licence signing process from a Funder with a CC-BY mandate will only be provided with a CC-BY licence to ensure compliance with Funder mandates. Once your article is published, you cannot change your mind about the publication licence you have decided on.
Which journals are included?
Please see the lists in the publisher spreadsheets for Wiley hybrid (xlsx) and Wiley Gold Titles.
Are any journals excluded?
The journals of a small number of Society publishers are excluded. Excluded journals will not appear on the lists above.
Which articles are eligible?
Primary research and review articles: including (but not limited to) articles classified by Wiley as Case Study, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Rapid Publication, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, and Technical Note.
How to apply?
First see Eligibility information for authors
Eligible corresponding authors should use their City St George’s affiliation in this publisher’s system. The institution will verify the eligibility of the responsible corresponding author in the course of the publisher’s publishing workflow.
More information
For further information, see the publisher’s page on the open access agreement, and simple steps at how to publish in open access in a hybrid journal (publishing OA in their subscription journals) and how to publish in a fully open access journal.
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.
What is the agreement?
We are participating in the read and publish agreement with Wolters Kluwer for 2026-2028.
Eligible corresponding authors on original research papers can have their work published under an open CC-BY license without paying article processing charges, page or colour charges in selected hybrid (subscription) journals. Fully open access journals are excluded from the agreement. Please be sure to select the licence as required by your funder.
Which journals are included?
There is an eligible journal list at section 2 on this publisher page . The agreement covers publication of original research in the following American Heart Association journals:
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Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
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Circulation
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Circulation Research
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Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
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Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
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Circulation: Heart Failure
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Hypertension
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Stroke.
(for JAHA – Journal of the American Heart Association, are Gold (wholly open access) journals published by Wiley, please see the Wiley information above).
Which journals are excluded?
Fully open access journals are excluded from the agreement. Also excluded are: NEJM; Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and Journal of Clinical Oncology titles (JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics; JCO Global Oncology; Journal of Clinical Oncology; JCO Oncology Practice; JCO Precision Oncology).
Which articles are eligible?
Peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews and conference papers, accepted for publication.
How to apply
First see Eligibility information for authors Note only one corresponding author can be designated for eligibility purposes - please see section 5 of the publisher FAQs.
On acceptance, the corresponding author will be asked to place an open access order in the publisher’s payment portal, where they will be able to request the open access publication fee be funded under this agreement, and where approved a $0.00 will be applied. There is information for authors on the publishing process here, and workflow for the corresponding author is explained on this webpage.
More information
Please contact the Library via our open access email address before submission to these journals if you need further advice.