Journal publisher agreements

What is available: No charge to publish research articles and conference proceedings open access in ACM Digital Library through ACM OPEN. Authors can select the CC BY licence for sharing and reuse.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a primary current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify primary University of Exeter affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address. After acceptance, complete the eRights form, selecting open access and CC BY licence.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025

What is available: Unlimited open access publishing with CC BY licence without any publishing fees in all American Chemical Society (ACS) hybrid and full open access journals.
Eligibility: Submitting corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: during submission, identify your affiliation, ideally using your institutional email address. When you receive the link to arrange payment, select "seek funding from University of Exeter" and we will be notified to approve your request.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2024.

*This agreement ends on 31 December 2024

Articles accepted to hybrid journals after 31st December 2024 may not be able to publish open access. Make sure you include aRights Retention statement in your manuscript submission “For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission".

We cannot pay ACS 'Article Development Charge' and we cannot pay APCs in ACS hybrid journals. This may mean you cannot comply with your funder when publishing in ACS hybrid journals from 1 January 2025, you may wish to consider submitting elsewhere.

What is available: No charge to publish original research articles open access in American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing's 26 hybrid journals, more information on the publisher website.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Select University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address.
Limited / Unlimited: Consortium publishing pot (shared by all institutions that signed up to the deal), available on a first come first served basis.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

This agreement does not include AIP Publishing full open access journals, publishing in AIP Publishing full open access journals incurs publishing fees, you must secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

*This agreement ends on 31st December 2024, open access options for articles accepted after this date will depend upon a new agreement being available from 2025 onwards. Make sure you include Rights Retention in your manuscript submissions, to ensure funder compliance in case open access publishing is not available.

What is available: Publish open access without any publishing fees in all 12 American Meteorological Society research journals, including both hybrid and full open access titles. This agreement replaces all publication charges, including open access fees and page charges. More information on the publisher website.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current University of Exeter affiliation.
How to access: Identify primary University of Exeter affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address. After acceptance, complete the open access form and sign the CC BY licence.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2024.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in American Physical Society hybrid journals, list on the publisher website.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. Eligible article types: Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, Short Papers.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

APS full open access journals are not included, publishing in APS OA journals incurs publishing costs. Make sure you secure funding before you submit, contact Open Research at submission if you need to apply to the University's central open access funds.

Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB) is a diamond open access publication with no fees to readers or authors.

What is available: No charge to publish open access with the CC BY licence in American Physiological Society's 12 hybrid journals, plus one year free membership of APS for corresponding authors at participating institutions (new members only). More information here.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using institutional email address.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish peer-reviewed original research or review articles open access with CC BY licence in 88 hybrid journals included in the PsycArticles portfolio, excluding the Hogrefe collection of journals. More information on the APA website.

Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. Select the open access publishing option with CC BY licence, there will be no fees to pay.
End date of agreement: 31st July 2026.

What is available: Publish open access without publishing fees in 14 journals participating in Berghahn Open Anthro, in addition to Democratic Theory.
Eligibility: Open access publishing is available to all authors, regardless of affiliation.
How to access: This is a "subscribe to open" scheme. Libraries continue to pay journal subscription fees to the publisher, who repurposes that income to fund open access publishing. This enables the journals to flip to full open access at no extra cost to instiutions and without charging any author publishing fees.

What is available: Publish open access with CC BY licence without paying any publishing fees in Bioscientifica's five hybrid journals: Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine-Related Cancer, European Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation University of Exeter affiliation.
How to access: You must use your institutional email address throughout the publishing process to access this agreement.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2024.

Publish and Read - funded articles in hybrid journals

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in BMJ's hybrid journals - select University of Exeter and the list of included journals will show on the right hand side.
Article types: Original research articles only, funded by UKRI, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinsons UK and Versus Arthritis.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. After your article has been accepted, select "seek funding from University of Exeter' and we will be notified to approve your funding request.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

When submitting articles to BMJ hybrid journals that are not reporting original research, ensure you include your funder's set text in the submission ('For the purpose ofopen access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission') then comply with the funder open access policy by self-archiving: deposit the accepted manuscript to ORE / PMC for immediate CC BY open access.

What is available: No charge to publish research or review articles open access with CC BY licence in all Brill journals (including hybrid and fully open access).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during publishing process, please use your institutional email address throughout.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in fully open access and hyrbid journals within the CUP Complete Journals Collections through the Cambridge University Press Read & Publish Agreement (a list of journals included in this deal is linked from the publisher web page).
Article types: research articles, reviews, rapid communications, brief reports, case reports.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address and ORCID iD, complete the publisher form to request open access and select a Creative Commons licence.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in four Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press journals: Genes & Development; Genome Research; RNA and Learning & Memory.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. Eligible article types: Research Articles, Review Articles.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in The Company of Biologists' five journals, including three hybrid and two full open access titles: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Biology Open and Disease Models and Mechanisms.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission. Upon acceptance, complete the forms to request open access, select 'Seek funding from University of Exeter' and we will be notified to approve your request.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: no charge to publish peer-reviewed research and review articles open access with CC BY licence in De Gruyter's hybrid journals. More information on the De Gruyter website.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify affiliation with the University of Exeter during submission.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish open access without paying APCs in most Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet hybrid journals through a Read & Publish Transformative Agreement. Find a participating journal.
Article types: A list of eligible article types in Elsevier hybrid journals can be found on this page. When publishing in eligible Lancet hybrid journals only full length articles are included.
Eligibility: Submitting corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: After your article has been accepted, you will receive an email containing a link to the “post-acceptance author journey”. Select the open access publishing option with a Creative Commons licence (to make your work as open access possible we recommend CC BY 4.0). The Open Research team will be notified to approve your request.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

The Elsevier agreement does not include fully open access journals, publishing in Elsevier full OA journals incurs publishing fees.

What is available: Publish open access with CC BY licence without paying any publishing fees in European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research and European Respiratory Review.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation University of Exeter affiliation.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during the publishing process, ideally using your institutional email address and select the open access option, there will be no fees to pay.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Unlimited open access publishing of all article types in six hybrid journals and three hybrid book series published by the Geological Society: Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Petroleum Geoscience, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Scottish Journal of Geology, Special Publications, Memoirs and Engineering Geology Special Publications
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation, ideally using institutional email address throughout the publishing process.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in 56 hybrid and 18 full open access journals published by IOP Publishing. More information here, including a list of eligible titles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, all qualifying articles will be published by default on an open access basis with the licence CC BY 4.0. View the IOP Guide to submitting under a transformative agreement.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

This agreement does not include all IOP journals, please check the list on the publisher website. If you wish to publish in a fully open access journal that's not included in the agreement, this will incur publishing costs, make sure you secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds in a research grant to pay, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in all IWA Publishing journals, including hybrid and fully open access titles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must be affiliated with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using institutional email address.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: no charge to publish peer-reviewed research and review articles open access in Karger's 104 journals, including both hybrid and fully open access titles. Articles will be published with the CC-BY-NC licence (CC BY available upon request if required for funder compliance).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify affiliation with the University of Exeter during submission. Find more information on the publisher website.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in all Microbiology Society journals, including hybrid and fully open access titles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must be affiliated with University of Exeter.
How to access: Must use University of Exeter institutional email address during submission and throughout the publishing process.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) journals: Advances in Optics and Photonics, Applied Optics, Biomedical Optics Express, Current Optics and Photonics, Journal of Optical Communications & Networking, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optica, Optical Materials Express, Optics Express, Optics and Photonics News, Optics Letters, Optics Continuum and Photonics Research. 
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. Select the open access publishing option with CC BY licence and "seek funding from University of Exeter", we will be notified to approve your request and there will be no fees to pay.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2024.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in 400+ of OUP's fully open access and hybrid journals (a list of journals included in this deal is on the publisher web page).
Article types: Original research and review articles, Case Reports, Brief Reports.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Use your institutional email address on the publisher forms to help OUP to identify your affiliation. See here for further information for authors about how to access the agreement. 
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish open access (OA) without paying any APCs in nine Public Library of Science (PLoS) titles: PLoS ONE, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS Digital Health, PLoS Climate, PLoS Water and PLoS Global Public Health.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: During submission on the 'additional information' screen under 'publishing fees', select 'my institution will fully or partially pay the fees as a member of the Institutional Account Programme'. A drop down menu will appear below - select University of Exeter. The Open Research Team will be asked to verify your affiliation, then the article will be published open access without any publishing fees. View the PLOS Author Guide for instructions for submitting through this agreement.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2024.

What is available: Publish open access (OA) with CC BY licence in RSNA's Radiology journal without paying any publising fees and the publisher will deposit to PubMed Central (PMC).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address, select the open access publication option, sign the CC BY licence and you should not be charged any publishing fees.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: No charge to publish open access with CC BY licence in Rockefeller University Press' three hybrid titles: Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of General Physiology. Find more information on the publisher website.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using institutional email address. Instructions for authors here.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish open access (OA) with CC BY licence at no extra cost in British Journal of General Practice and BJGP Open.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address. The publishing manager should identify you as eligible to use the Read & Publish agreement and invite you to sign the CC BY licensing form.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2024.

*This agreement ends on 31st December 2024 and will not be renewed by the publisher for 2025. Articles accepted after 31st December 2024 will incur publication charges, make sure you secure funding to pay these before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: Publish open access (OA) with CC BY licence at no extra cost in 8 hybrid and 2 full OA Royal Society journals: Philosophical Transactions A; Philosophical Transactions B; Proceedings A; Proceedings B; Biology Letters; Interface; Interface Focus; Notes & Records; Open Biology; Royal Society Open Science. This agreement has unlimited OA publishing (no article cap).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. In the case of multiple corresponding authors, the first / primary corresponding author must be affiliated, to publish open access through this agreement.
How to access: during submission, identify your affiliation and select the 'Read & Publish' option; sign the Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY (only) licensing form. Find more information about the workflow on the Royal Society website.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: open access publishing without publishing fees in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)'s hybrid journals. More details here.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. Upon acceptance, complete the open access licensing form to select CC BY or CC-BY-NC licence.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Unlimited open access publishing free of charge with CC BY licence in SAGE hybrid journals, author retains copyright (CC-BY-NC available upon request). More information on the SAGE website.
Exclusions: Journals on this list are excluded; some article types are excluded e.g. book reviews, editorials, commercially sponsored articles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must be affiliated with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address throughout the publishing process. Request open access via the publisher portal and sign the open access licence.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in The Journal of Neuroscience. Eligible articles will be published open access with CC BY licence and deposited to PubMed Central (PMC).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using institutional email address. Select the open access publishing option and sign the Creative Commons CC BY licence, there will be no publishing fees to pay.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: £0 APC when publishing in eligible Nature, Nature Research, Palgrave and Springer hybrid journals (list on this page).
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. Where a paper has multiple corresponding authors, the first corresponding author must be affiliated.
Article types: Original paper, review paper, brief communication, continuing education. When publishing in a Nature Portfolio journal, original paper is the only applicable article type.
How to access: Identify your affiliation in the Springer system, request open access on the publisher forms and select the University of Exeter from the drop down list. 
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in Taylor & Francis "Open Select" hybrid journals, all fully OA journals (except Dove Medical Press titles), F1000 and Routledge Open Research. Find more information about the Agreement here.

Article types: Original research and review articles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must have a current affiliation with University of Exeter.
How to access: identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address, complete the publisher form to request open access and select the Creative Commons licence e.g. CC BY. We will be notified to approve your request.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish peer-reviewed original research and review articles open access (OA) at no extra cost in any of Wiley's fully open access or hybrid journals (including Hindawi and Institution of Engineering and Technology IET titles). through the Wiley Read & Publish Agreement.

Eligibility: Responsible Corresponding Author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: When submitting to a full OA journal - choose “my institution has an agreement with Wiley and may pay the APC” then use the "Account code tool" to select the University of Exeter from a list of institutions. Publishing in a hybrid journal, select 'OnlineOpen' on the publisher forms, indicate your institutional affiliation and we will be notified to approve your request.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: 10 per cent discount when publishing in open access journal Science Advances.
Eligibility: Available to all University of Exeter researchers.
How to access: Select 'Apply discounts', search for and select University of Exeter in the 'Affiliation discount' box then click 'Apply discounts' to see the discount applied.

All AAAS journals are compliant with funders that require immediate open access, as they allow self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version in a repository with CC BY licence. See AAAS Licence to Publish for more information.

What is available: 15 per cent discount in BMJ's full open access journals, when publishing fees are paid through the institutional BMJ prepayment account. Contact the Open Research team if you have funds to pay in a research grant but would like us to facilitate this through the account, to benefit from the discount.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Contact Open Research upon submission to apply. After your article has been accepted, select "seek funding from University of Exeter' and we will be notified to approve your funding request.

What is available: Centralised billing between Open Research and the publisher when APC is paid from central open access funds via institutional Copernicus membership, from 2025 we also get 10 per cent discount to the APC.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: We still need to pay publishing fees in these journals, you must secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: 15 per cent discounted APC when publishing in most Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet full open access titles.
Article types: Peer-reviewed research articles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: The discount should be applied automatically when you identify University of Exeter affiliation on the publisher forms. The discount is available when paying from a research grant, or applying to central OA funds. Contact Open Research at submission if you don't have funds in a research grant to pay and you need to apply for funding from central open access funds.

What is available: 10  per cent discount when APC is paid from central open access funds via institutional Frontiers account. When paying from  a research grant, the discount does not apply.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: We need to pay the remaining 90 per cent publishing fees in these journals, make sure you secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: 20 per cent discount to publishing fees via institutional membership account.
Eligibility: Any paper with a University of Exeter author on are entitled to the discount (does not need to be corresponding author).
Exclusions: Discount cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts such as editorial office waivers or author vouchers.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address, and the discount will be automatically applied. We still need to pay publishing fees in these journals, you must secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay the remaining 80 per cent of the fee, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: 10 pre-paid APCs for publishing in Modern Languages Open journal.
Open to: Corresponding author must must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Contact Open Research to apply.

What is available: 15 per cent discounted APC in RSC's full open access titles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay the remaining 85 per cent of the publishing fee, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: 20 per cent discounted APC in SAGE's fully open access journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: Identify your affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address throughout the publishing process. SAGE will pick up that you may be eligible for the discount, then after acceptance they ask us to verify your affiliation and confirm if the article is eligible for the discount, before the invoice is raised. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay the remaining 80 per cent of the publishing fee, Contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central OA Funds.

What is available: 15 per cent discount when APC is paid through the prepayment account.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. 
How to access: Contact the Open Research team just before you submit if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees. List University of Exeter affiliation on the publisher forms, the funding request will automatically be sent to the institutional prepayment account. If you have funds in a research grant to pay, contact the Open Research team, we may be able to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to take advantage of the 15 per cent prepayment account discount.