Read and Publish agreements

Alongside supporting open access publishing initiatives, Library and Learning Services have some transitional agreements with publishers.

Transitional agreements are also known as Read and Publish agreements. They provide access to the publisher's subscription journals while also allowing our researchers to publish research articles with that publisher immediately open access (OA) without any article process charges (APCs) or with discounted/capped APCs.

To be eligible for these deals, a York St John University researcher must be the corresponding author and they must use their York St John email address.

The University strongly recommends authors selecting the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence or Creative Commons No-Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) licence for research articles. This is to ensure eligibility for REF purposes and to align with the Open Access policies within Higher Education. More information about Creative Commons licences can be found on the Creative Commons website.

Journals and Publishers

To find out which journals are part of the Read and Publish deals please contact RaY (ray@yorksj.ac.uk).

Alternatively, if you have a journal in mind, you can see if its eligible using the Transitional Agreement Look up tool.

Library and Learning Services have agreements with the following publishers.

Note:

• Hybrid journals: a subscription access journal in which some of the articles are open access (OA).
• Gold journals: journals where all articles are immediately OA as authors have (usually) paid article processing charges (APCs).

These agreements are subject to change. Please contact RaY (ray@yorksj.ac.uk) for more information.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Open

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing of research articles and conference proceedings in ACM Open titles.

Cambridge University Press

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing in CUP hybrid and wholly Gold journals.

Elsevier*

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing in Elsevier hybrid journals including the Cell Press and Lancet titles.
• 15% APC discount when publishing in Elsevier Gold journals.

*Please contact RaY (ray@yorksj.ac.uk) before submitting a publication using this deal.

Oxford University Press*

• Immediate OA publishing in Oxford University Press journals, subject to a consortium cap.
• To ensure your article is published immediately OA, please follow the OUP author workflow guide (PDF, 1.3MB).

*Please contact RaY (ray@yorksj.ac.uk) before submitting a publication using this deal for support with the author workflow.

PLOS

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing in 7 PLOS journals.
• PLOS ONE
• PLOS Genetics
• PLOS Pathogens
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• PLOS Digital Health
• PLOS Complex Systems

SAGE*

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing in SAGE hybrid journals.
• 20% APC discount when publishing in SAGE Gold journals.

*Please contact RaY (ray@yorksj.ac.uk) before submitting a publication using this deal.

Springer Compact

• Unlimited immediate OA publishing in Springer Compact hybrid journals.
• The agreement includes Springer, Adis and Palgrave Macmillan titles.

Taylor & Francis

• Immediate OA publishing in Taylor & Francis hybrid (Open Select) journals, subject to a consortium cap.

Wiley

• Immediate OA publishing in all Wiley journals, subject to consortium fund availability.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

If Green or Diamond OA routes or Read and Publish agreements are not available or appropriate, only then should you consider an APC.

If APC funding is required, researchers should check with their relevant academic school about the availability of funding or ensure any research funding will cover the costs of an APC payment. If you have received research funding, check that your funder permits using research funds to pay for an APC. Please note, neither Library and Learning Service or the Research Office (including QR funding) have a budget to pay for APCs.

When considering APCs check that fees are clearly explained, that the information is easy to find on publisher websites and that there are no additional or hidden costs. A lack of information could indicate a predatory publisher.

Book Processing Charges (BPCs)

A book processing charge is a payment to the publisher for a whole book to be made Open Access.

Like APCs, the Library and Learning Services team and the Research Office do not have a budget to fund any BPCs. Researchers should check with their academic school about research funding.