Open Access & Institutional Repository: Transformative Agreements and Memberships

ACS (American Chemical Society)

Research articles with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author should automatically be included in the agreement.

Please select the CC BY Creative Commons attribution licence.

Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors using their institutional address and institutional email address. AIP will ask the author to complete a form on acceptance. AIP have experienced issues setting up the UK agreement, please contact eprints@soton.ac.uk if your article has not been included and you think it should be.

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

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting to Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Please select the CC BY Creative Commons attribution licence.

Open access at no cost to University of Southampton corresponding authors for research and review articles. 

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research articles.

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Open to all 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.

Please select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence.

Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/23 and 31/12/2023

(Please note our agreement for 2022 only included hybrid IOP journals. Our 2023 agreement covers all IOP and Electrochemical Society journals)

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

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Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2022

(Update 29/11/22: we are evaluating the 2023 renewal)

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.

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors publishing a research or review article in selected Optica journals.

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors publishing a research or review article, received into OUP production on or after 1 January 2021, in hybrid and fully open access journals listed on the OUP Read & Publish agreements page. See the author workflow page or downloadable pdf to ensure your article is included. The 'prepayment' account you need to search for is UK Institutions (Jisc Affiliated).

Please see this recording of a University of Southampton OUP webinar and slides explaining the author workflow.

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors in all PLOS titles

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Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors for research articles in British Journal of General Practice and BJGP Open. Please note that Practice & Policy articles are not included.

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Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2022.

UPDATE 14/12/22: we are renewing the agreement for 2023-2024

Open to all 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. 

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.

Includes all peer reviewed article types with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author in all RSC journals. 

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Our current publishing agreement with SAGE ended 31/12/22. A new agreement covering 2023 has been negotiated and we are awaiting the contract.

SAGE has agreed to provide gratis open access publishing in the interim period.

Please contact eprints@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions.

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

Our current publishing agreement with SAGE ended 31/12/22. A new agreement covering 2023 has been negotiated and we are awaiting the contract.

SAGE has agreed to provide gratis open access publishing in the interim period.

Our current publishing agreement with Springer ended 31/12/22. A new agreement covering 2023 has been negotiated and we are awaiting the contract (information updated 05/05/23)

Springer has agreed to provide gratis open access publishing in the interim period for journals included in our 2022 Springer Compact agreement.

Please contact eprints@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Our current publishing agreement with Springer ended 31/12/22. A new agreement covering 2023 has been negotiated and we are awaiting the contract (information updated 05/05/23)

Springer has agreed to provide gratis open access publishing in the interim period for journals included in our 2022 Springer Compact agreement.

All University of Southampton corresponding authors, publishing original research articles in hybrid T&F journals (subscription journals with a paid open access option), will automatically be included. Please select the CC BY licence.

The deal provides a capped number of credits per year across participating institutions in the UK and will end when all credits have been used.

Please note that Editorials, Announcements, and Book Reviews are not included. The agreement does not include fully open access journals.

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'Open Select' Hybrid T&F and Routledge tiles

List of included titles (can be downloaded and sorted alphabetically or filtered by subject)

(not fully open access journals)

From 01/01/2023, open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research and review articles. However, at some point during 2023 (date to be confirmed by Wiley) this will change so that only UKRI and Wellcome funded corresponding authors are eligible.

The deal provides a capped number of credits across participating institutions in the UK and will end when all credits have been used.

We will only approve articles that have a CC BY licence rather than CC BY-NC or CC BY-ND

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

(The Wiley deal reopened to all UoS corresponding authors for articles in fully open access journals submitted from 01/01/22, and for hybrid journals accepted from 01/01/22.)

Please select the CC BY Creative Commons attribution licence.

Deal ends 31/12/2023 with a capped number of credits across participating institutions each year.

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.

Please select the CC BY Creative Commons attribution licence.