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Open access and rights retention

Read and publish agreements: what are they?

When publishing a journal article as gold open access, the publisher will usually charge the author or their institution or funder an Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover publication costs.

The Library has read-and-publish agreements (also known as transformative agreements) with some publishers.  These agreements cover both subscription payments (the “read” element) and also article processing charges (the “publish” element).  They enable SHU authors to publish gold open access without further fees in journals that are part of the agreements (eligibility criteria apply). 

The negotiations for read-and-publish agreements, are usually undertaken on behalf of UK universities by JISC Collections. Details of these read and publish agreements can be found below.

If the journal you wish to publish in is not covered by one of the SHU read-and-publish agreements, you can request support with the costs from the SHU Open Access Fund.  Please see our page on applying for support with open access for more information.

List of agreements

The read-and-publish agreeents listed below cover the cost of publishing Gold Open Access for SHU corresponding authors. 

Please check the details of the agreement of interest.  The agreement may have restrictions on the journals that are included, types of articles that are eligible, funder and author eligibility.  If you are unsure if a deal will apply to your research output or to your chosen journal, please contact the Library Research Support Team (Email: library-research-support@shu.ac.uk).

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications

Agreement  

 What you need to do

SHU corresponding authors can publish Gold Open Access in Hybrid and Fully OA journals within ACS Web Editions.  This includes ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au collection, and all ACS hybrid journals.

This agreement applies to research articles only. Additions, corrections and editorials are not eligible.

On submission you must be the corresponding author and must indicate your institution as Sheffield Hallam University using the dropdown menu during the online manuscript submission process.  Please also use your SHU email address.

On acceptance of your article you will receive an email invitation from ACS to enter the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) Tool.  In this tool, choose the option "I wish to publish Open Access as per the agreement".

Licences offered: CC BY

Ends: 31st December 2024

American Physical Society

Agreement (Applies to articles accepted between 1st March 2023 and 30th June 2023) What you need to do

This agreement enables SHU corresponding authors to publish Gold Open Access in American Physical Society hybrid journals with no additional costs.

Your article must be one of the article types acceptable under the policies of the Participating Journal, including but not limited to: Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, and Short Papers.

Participating journals:

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review A
  • Physical Review B
  • Physical Review C
  • Physical Review D
  • Physical Review E
  • Physical Review Applied
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Physical Review Materials

Fully Open Access journals are NOT covered by this agreement and the full fees are payable.

Please make sure that as the corresponding author, your primary affiliation is given as Sheffield Hallam University on submission.

Licences offered:  CC BY

Applies to articles accepted between 1st March 2023 and 30th June 2023.  Please make sure you include the SHU rights retention statement in your submissions. 

BMJ Journals

Agreement What do you need to do

Open Access fees are covered by the agreement for SHU corresponding authors publishing funded research (see eligible funders below) in any of  the eligible journals (see list below).   Please check your research meets the following criteria :

  • a SHU author must be the corresponding author.
  • the research must be funded by the UKRI (MRC, EPSRC, AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, STFC, Innovate UK, Research England),  British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinson’s UK, Versus Arthritis or the Wellcome Trust.
  • you must be publishing in one of the eligible journals.  To see the BMJ journal titles that are covered, please check on the BMJ UK agreement website.
  • eligible articles are original research articles only.

Full costs are payable if the eligibility requirements are not met and in journals not covered by this deal.

Please check the eligibility requirements

You must clearly state your affiliation with SHU in your submission and you must use your SHU email address.

Licences available: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ends: 31st Dec 2024

Cambridge University Press

Agreement What you need to do

SHU corresponding authors can publish Gold Open Access within hybrid and fully open access journals in the  CUP Complete Journals Collections (this is not all CUP journals).

A list of the journals included in the deal is on the CUP OA agreement – JISC UK webpage.

Your article must be an eligible article type.  These are: Research, Review Articles and Rapid Communications (RRR), Brief Report, and Case Reports article types.

Full costs are payable in CUP journals not covered by this deal and if your article does not meet the eligibility requirements.

Please check the eligibility requirments.

You must use your SHU institutional address and email address when submitting your article.

CUP will email you ask you on acceptance to let you know that you are eligible to make your article Open Access at no cost to you.

They will send you a link to a form ‘Convert your article to Open Access’ which you need to complete and which will require you to select a Creative Commons licence to apply to your work.

Licences offered: A choice of Creative Commons licenses is offered including CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ends: 31st Dec 2023

Elsevier

Agreement What do you need to do

This agreement enables SHU submitting corresponding authors to publish Gold Open Access in eligible hybrid journals from Elsevier and eligible hybrid titles in the Cell Press and The Lancet journal collections. The journals that are covered can be found on this page: Elsevier journals participating in the agreement.

Check these Elsevier agreement FAQs for the article types that are covered.

The agreement does not cover any submission fee, page charges or colour charges.

Find out more about the Elsevier-UK Institutions Agreement.

Elsevier fully Open Access journals are not covered by this agreement and costs are payable.  However, please see this information about funding for Open Access fees for information about support with costs and discounts that may apply.

Place make sure your SHU affiliation is clear and use your SHU email address when submitting.

Once your article has been accepted for publication in a participating journal, you will receive an email containing a link to the “post-acceptance author journey”. Upon selecting your publishing options, your affiliation will be validated, and you will be informed if the APC will be covered by the agreement.

Licences offered: All Elsevier-owned journals included in the agreement support a CC-BY license choice.  A small number of third party owned journals included in the agreement do not offer a CC-BY license.

Ends: 31st December 2024

IGI Global: InfoSci Journals

Agreement What do you need to do

SHU authors can publish Open Access in IGI Global InfoSci Journals on a waiver system.

There are a limited number of waivers.  After these have been used, Open Access costs will need to be paid.

The SHU author does not need to be the corresponding author.

IGI Global's Open Access (Fee Waiver) read and publish initiative.

Email the Library Research Support Team to ask them if waivers are still available.

Please make sure your affiliation is clearly given as Sheffield Hallam University when you submit your publication. It is advisable to use your SHU email address as well.

On acceptance of your article, IGI Global will contact you and offer you the option of publishing Gold Open Access.  You will need to accept the offer.

Licences offered: CC BY

IOP  Publishing (Institute of Physics)

Agreement What you need to do

SHU corresponding authors can publish Gold Open Access in eligible hybrid journals from the IOP without charge.

Eligible journals for SHU authors are in Lists A and B only on the IOP Eligible journals webpage.

This deal applies to primary research articles, reviews, letters, papers, and special issue articles.

Further details are available on the IOP OA for the UK page.

Full costs are payable if the eligibility requirements are not met and in journals not covered by this deal.

Please check the eligibility requirements.

When submitting your article please supply your affiliation clearly in the article submission form and in the article itself.

IOP will automatically identify qualifying articles.

  • If your article is identified you will be notified during the peer-review process or shortly after acceptance, and your paper will automatically be opted in to open access.

  • You will be asked to agree to the open access license.

Licences offered: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ends: 31st Dec 2023

Open Library of Humanities

Agreement What you need to do

The Open Library of Humanities does not charge fees to any authors for publishing Open Access in OLH journals. The costs are paid by a consortium of supporters which includes SHU.

No funding is required and you do not need to do anything in order to publish free with Open Library of Humanities.
Licences offered: Please check the options offered by your chosen journal

Rockerfeller University Press

Agreement What you need to do

SHU Corresponding authors can publish Open Access under a CC-BY license in the three Rockefeller University Press hybrid journals.

Find out more on the Read-and-Publish Agreements with RUP Journals page

 Please make sure your affiliation is clear when you submit your article.

Licence offered:  CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ends: 31st Dec 2023

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Agreement What you need to do

This agreement enables SHU submitting corresponding authors to publish Gold Open Access in RSC hybrid journals with no additional costs.

Peer reviewed articles are eligible for publication in this agreement fall into three main types: full papers, communications, and reviews. Editorials and corrections are not covered under this agreement.

To ensure that you are identified as eligible for this agreement by the RSC, please do the following:

  • make sure you are the corresponding author as designated in the author submission workflow and in your manuscript.
  • You must use your official SHU email address.

On acceptance of your article, choose the Gold Open Access publishing route.  You will then be asked to select a licence. 

Licences offered:  CY BY or CC BY-NC

Ends: 31st December 2024

Sage Choice

Agreement

What you need to do

SHU corresponding authors publishing an article in subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package, as well as in the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection, which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice) can be published open access, without paying an article-processing charge.

Please note there are some subscription journals from Sage that do not offer the Sage Choice option.

The agreement covers “Article type” papers (some commercially sponsored articles, invited articles, book reviews and other content types are excluded).

Find out more about the Sage agreement.

Sage fully Open Access journals are not covered by this agreement and costs are payable.  Please see this information about funding for Open Access fees for information about support with costs and discounts that may apply.

Please check that you are submitting to an eligible journal.

On submission, you must make sure your Sheffield Hallam University institutional affiliation is clear and use your institutional email address.

As soon as your accepted article has been received by SAGE’s Production department, SAGE will contact you to use the SAGE Open Access Portal to take up the offer of free Open Access.  You will need to accept the offer within 2 weeks.

Licence offered: A choice of Creative Commons licence is offered, including CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ended: 31st Dec 2022. Negotiations between JISC and Sage are ongoing. Please make sure you include the SHU rights retention statement in your submissions.

Springer Open Choice (selected hybrid journals)

Agreement What you need to do

Articles from SHU corresponding authors that are publishing in most Springer hybrid journals offering the Open Choice option, can be made available via ‘gold’ Open Access. A list of the eligible hybrid journals is available on the OA agreement for UK authors site.  

The following article types are covered: original paper/research paper, review paper, brief communication, continuing education.

Please note that some Springer journals offering the Open Choice option are NOT included. 

Nature Research, Palgrave and some other journals are NOT covered.

Springer fully Open Access journals are not covered by this agreement and costs are payable. Please see this information about funding for Open Access fees for information about support with costs and discounts that may apply.

Please check the eligibility requirements.

In order to take advantage of this agreement, please make sure your institutional affiliation is clear and you are advised to use your University email address.

Licences offered: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ended: 31st Dec 2022.  Negotiations between JISC and Springer are ongoing.  Please make sure you include the SHU rights retention statement in your submissions. 

Taylor and Francis

Agreement What you need to do

Articles from SHU corresponding authors that are accepted in Hybrid  (Open Select) journals can be published as Gold Open Access with no additional cost.

Only original research papers are covered by the agreement (article, review, research article, review article, report, short communication, case report, note, original article, guest editorial). Articles that are not original research papers, such as editorials, announcements, and book reviews, are not covered.

The Taylor and Francis open access journal finder can be used to find out if your chosen journal is Open Select.

There is more information about this agreement on the Taylor and Francis transformative agreement page.

Full costs are payable in fully Open Access Taylor & Francis journals and other journals not covered by this deal or if your article does not meet the eligibility requirements.

Please check that the journal you intend to publish in offers the Open Select option and that the eligibility requirements are met.

In order to take advantage of this agreement, please make sure your institutional affiliation is clear and use your University email address in your submission.

 

Licence options: Journals offer different choices, commonly CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) or CC BY-NC-ND (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Check which licenses your chosen journal offers using the Taylor and Francis open access journal finder.

Ends: 31st Dec 2023

Wiley

Agreement

What you need to do

This agreement, covers the cost of article processing charges in Wiley journals and applies to articles by SHU corresponding authors who must be the "responsible corresponding author" and to primary research and review articles. Please note that letters and editorials, etc. are excluded.

Lists of the fully Gold Open Access and hybrid journals from Wiley, IET and Hindawi which are covered by the deal are available on the Wiley Open access agreement for authors at eligible UK institutions pages.

Please check that your work meets the eligibility requirements.

To publish in Wiley, IET and Hindawi gold open access journals, follow these instructions.

To publish in any of Wiley’s hybrid (subscription-based) journals, follow these instructions.
Ends: 31st Dec 2023