The agreement with Sage covers the open access article processing charges (APCs) for corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Huddersfield to publish in 900+ subscription journals including the SAGE Premier package, IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection, which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice)
Please note: Fully open access journals are not included in this agreement.
To be eligible under this agreement articles must have an acceptance date after 1st January 2023 and meet the following Author, Journal and Article type criteria.
Teaching and research staff employed by or otherwise accredited to the University of Huddersfield as well as students enrolled or accredited to the Institution who are also the corresponding author of an article published in an Offered Title.
In case of articles published by multiple authors, only the corresponding author will be the Eligible Corresponding Author.
It is not permitted to change the corresponding author of an article after peer review from an in-eligible author to one accredited to the Institution to qualify as eligible.
Authors are only Eligible Corresponding Authors once they have signed the then current open access publishing agreement with Publisher.
Only hybrid journals that offer publishing via Sage Choice.
The following journals are excluded:
Please note: Gold open access journals are also NOT COVERED from this agreement
Articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar are excluded from this service.
Sage has confirmed that they will not reject or redirect manuscripts including rights retention language, based on UKRI wording:
“For the purpose of open access, the authors has applied a creative commons attribution (CC BY) licence (where permitted by UKRI, ‘open government licence’ or ‘creative commons attribution no-derivatives (CC BY-ND) licence’ may be stated instead) to any author accepted manuscript version arising.”
Further workflow enhancements are underway to ensure Sage systems can recognize alternative phrasing of rights retention language.
Cascading of articles is never done without author permission.
Submission Checklist
Criteria | All must apply |
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Affiliated to the University of Huddersfield | |
You are the corresponding author | |
The selected journal is an eligible Sage hybrid title (see above) and if applicable meets UKRI funding requirements |
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The article type is eligible (see above) | |
You used your University email address during the submission process | |
You selected the 'University of Huddersfield' as your institution during the submission process | |
You have acknowledged any funders | |
If UKRI funded you have chosen an appropriate CC-BY licence to comply with funder requirements |