Transformative agreements and open access memberships
These publisher agreements and open access memberships provide open access at no cost to the author. Please note that former members of staff and visitors cannot benefit from the agreements/memberships.
Please note that we do not have a central institutional fund for open access payments that fall outside of these deals; the University of Southampton supports open access via self-archiving your Accepted Manuscript in Pure.
At the bottom of this page we list discounts with some publishers, but these do not cover the entire open access cost.
Please email eprints@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Use our journal search tool to check if you can publish open access in your chosen journal without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).
These publisher open access agreements are open to University of Southampton corresponding authors
We are proud to be the first UK institution to partner with SciFree, enabling you to check if a specific journal is included in a publisher agreement that offers open access publishing at no cost to the author.
| Publisher | Details of Transformative Agreement (TA) or Open Access Membership | List of included journals | Date of Agreement |
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ACS (American Chemical Society)
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Research articles with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author should automatically be included in the agreement. | All ACS journals | Articles accepted for publication 01/01/22-31/12/24 |
| AIP (American Institute of Physics) | 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. | AIP hybrid journals. List of included titles | Agreement runs 01/01/2021 to 31/12/2023 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors. Eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications. Full details here. | CUP journals covered by the agreement | Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2024 |
| Company of Biologists | Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting to Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology. | Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology | Articles accepted during 2022 |
| Elsevier | Open access at no cost to University of Southampton corresponding authors for research and review articles. | Hybrid Elsevier journals (not fully open access journals) | Articles accepted for publication 01/01/22-31/12/24 |
| Geological Society Lyell Collection | Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research articles. | Geological Society Lyell Collection hybrid journals | Articles submitted between 01/01/22 and 31/12/22 |
| IOP (Institute of Physics) | 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. | Most IOP hybrid journals (not fully open access journals) | Articles accepted for publication by 31/12/2023 |
| Microbiology Society | Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors using a soton.ac.uk email address during submission. | All Microbiology Society journals | Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2022 |
| Open Library of Humanities (OLH) | 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. | OLH journals | Ongoing |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
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. |
OUP journals covered by the agreement | Articles received into OUP production by 31/12/2023 (please note that national publishing caps may be in place in 2022/23) |
| PLOS | Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors in all PLOS titles | All PLOS journals | Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2023 |
| RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) | 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. | BJGP and BJGP Open | Articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2022 |
| Royal Society |
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'. |
All Royal Society journals | Articles submitted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2021 |
| RSC | Includes all peer reviewed article types with a University of Southampton submitting corresponding author in all RSC journals. | All RSC journals | Articles accepted for publication 01/01/22-31/12/24 |
| Sage |
Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors. Includes 900+ SAGE Choice subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package, the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection, which offer hybrid open access publishing. The deal does not include fully open access titles, but corresponding authors are eligible for a 20% discount in the open access cost (APC) for Sage fully open access journals. Please note all authors should still complete the steps to sign SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement on acceptance as normal. SAGE still requires this agreement for your article to proceed to production at SAGE. Through the SAGE Open Access Portal, you will automatically receive an open access Contributor’s Agreement that will replace the earlier signed agreement. Please select the CC BY licence. |
Hybrid journals (not fully open access journals) in SAGE Premier, IMechE Journal Collection and Royal Society of Medicine Collection Please note this list of journals added/removed from the 2021 SAGE Premier package |
Articles accepted for publication by 31/12/2022 |
| Springer |
Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors. Original research, review, brief communication and continuing education article types in Springer Open Choice journals (subscription journals with a paid open access option) are covered by our participation in the Springer Compact deal. The agreement does not include fully open access journals. |
'Hybrid journal list' from Springer (not fully open access journals) | Articles accepted by 31/12/2022 |
| Taylor & Francis |
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. |
'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) |
Articles accepted by 31/12/2023 |
| Wiley (includes AGU) |
From 01/01/2022, open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors submitting original research and review articles. However, at some point during 2022 (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.) |
All fully open access journals and hybrid journals offering Online Open |
Deal ends 31/12/2023 with a capped number of credits across participating institutions each year.
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In addition to the no-cost-to-the-author agreements, we have discounts with the following publishers but these do not cover the full publishing cost:
Articles which are supported by a UKRI Research Council (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, STFC), Wellcome Trust or Cancer Research UK grant are eligible for a 10% discount to the APC subject to the availability of the respective block grant: please apply to have the APC covered by the respective block grant using our APC Application Form.
This is a Jisc agreement covering articles accepted after 10/11/20. End date: November 2022.
Please note that if your article is not eligible as above, you may receive an email from Frontiers with this text
‘University of Southampton has declined this request, meaning your article is not eligible for the terms of the agreement and the APC will not be invoiced to University of Southampton. Instead, the corresponding author(s) will receive the invoice.’
This is Frontiers template response and means that the APC will not be invoiced to the library to be paid from funder block grants. If the corresponding author(s) is from University of Southampton, you will still receive an invoice addressed to the University of Southampton and this can be paid through your normal department invoice process
Authors associated with the University of Southampton receive 10% discount on APCs if they do not have a discount from another source.
University of Southampton corresponding authors are eligible for a 20% discount on the open access cost (APC) for SAGE fully open access journals.
Our Transformative Agreements page lists details of open access at no cost to the author in SAGE hybrid journals (those with a mix of subscription and open access content).
Applies to articles accepted for publication by 31/12/2022.