The University has signed up to a number of open access agreements with publishers which give researchers a range of benefits and discounts on Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Sometimes called 'Read and Publish'; 'Transformative' or 'Transitional', the open access publishing costs in these agreements becomes part of an overall University of Huddersfield payment covering both subscriptions (Read) and open access publishing (Publish).
Please see below for more information about our individual agreements or try our Journal search tool to identify journals that allow you to publish your articles Open Access without requiring further payment:
For UKRI funded articles, please ontact oa@hud.ac.uk to check if the journal is funder-compliant.
Please use the links below to learn more about the current publisher agreements that are in place:
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American Chemical Society (ACS) |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
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British Medical Journal (Limited to UKRI and charity funded research) |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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Elsevier |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
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Sage |
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Springer Nature |
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Taylor & Francis |
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Wiley |
If your research is UKRI funded, and you are looking to publish in a journal that is not eligible under the agreements listed above then you may be eligible to apply for funding from the UKRI block grant, which is managed by the Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (formerly Research and Enterprise) Team.
Please see here for more information or if you have any questions over your eligibility to access this grant, please contact the Open Access Manager: oa@hud.ac.uk or 01484 256 796.
Please contact the Library Subscriptions and Access Team on openaccess@hud.ac.uk if you have any queries about articles that will be sent to these publishers.
