Open Access & Institutional Repository: Transformative Agreements and Memberships

All ACM conferences, journals, and magazines for which ACM manages production and rights, are eligible for the agreement. However, these lists of conferences and journals are co-published with other publishers and are excluded from the agreement.

Agreement signed May 2024. Includes articles accepted for publication 01/01/2023-31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

ACS (American Chemical Society)

Research articles with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author should automatically be included in the agreement. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts andvisitors are not eligible.

Articles accepted by 31/12/2026

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors using their institutional address and institutional email address. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

01/01/2024 to 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors using their institutional address and institutional email address. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Start date September 2025

Articles accepted for publication between 01/09/2025 and 31/12/2026

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors. Eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications. Full details here.

This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors.This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication 01/01/2022-31/12/2026

Open access at no cost to University of Southampton corresponding authors for research and review articles. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication 01/01/2022-31/12/2025

(1 year extension to the 2022-24 agreement signed September 2024)

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research articles. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Articles submitted between 01/01/2022 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Articles submitted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

This is part of the Wiley agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding (submitting) authors. Research articles and reviews (letters, papers, reviews and special issue articles) are eligible, IOP will automatically identify qualifying articles and inform authors of their inclusion. When you submit your article, please supply your affiliation clearly in the article submission form and in the article itself.

This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors. 

This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors using a soton.ac.uk email address during submission. 

This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Articles accepted for publication on or before before 31/12/2025

This is part of the Springer Nature agreement.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs), funded by an international consortium of libraries, including the University of Southampton.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors publishing a research or review article in selected Optica journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2022 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors publishing a research article, review article, brief report, or case report in most OUP journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles received into OUP production by 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors in hybrid Palgrave journals.This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Included as part of the Springer Nature Read & Publish agreement

You should automatically be offered the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication on or before before 31/12/2025

This is part of the Springer Nature agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors in all Portland Press journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2025 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors using a soton.ac.uk email address during submission. All Royal Society journals (hybrid and fully open access) are included. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please opt for Open Access publication during online submission and select 'Article processing charges are covered by a special agreement, then 'The corresponding author is part of a Read & Publish deal'. 

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles submitted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Includes all peer reviewed article types with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author in all RSC journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication 01/01/2022-31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Includes research articles, review articles, and case reports with a University of Southampton corresponding author in Sage hybrid journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Hybrid journals (not fully open access journals)  in SAGE Premier, IMechE Journal Collection and Royal Society of Medicine Collection

Articles accepted for publication 01/01/2023-31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors original research and review articles, brief communications and continuing education articles in Springer hybrid journals. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence will be applied to your article

Articles accepted for publication on or before before 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research articles in T&F journals, F1000 and Routledge Open. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

You will automatically be offered the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Hybrid journals, fully open access journals, F1000 and Routledge Open

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research and review articles. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

The agreement covers the open access cost (APC) only, we cannot fund any additional publication fees or excess page charges.

You will automatically be offered the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Hybrid journals: articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

Fully open access journals: articles submitted for publication between 01/01/2024 and 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.

Open to University of Southampton corresponding authors in hybrid journals (peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews and conference papers). Please use your University of Southampton affiliation and email address during the submission process. This agreement is available to current University staff and students; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence

Articles accepted for publication 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2025

This agreement expires 31/12/2025, articles must be accepted by this date to be included. There is currently a national negotiation ongoing for a new agreement.