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: Publish open access at no extra cost in fully open access and hybrid journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Eligibility: Submitting corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: identify your affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address, complete the publisher form to request open access with the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY licence.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2026.

When submitting to ACS hybrid journals, we recommend that you do not include a Rights Retention statement, as this could trigger an invoice for ACS 'Article Development Charge', which we cannot pay. It is not necessary to include a Rights Retention statement as we formally notified ACS in May 2024 of our institutional Rights Retention policy, which applies a CC BY licence to all author accepted manuscripts with a University of Exeter author on. When publishing in ACS hybrid journals and you are not the corresponding author, upload your accepted manuscript to ORE within 3 months of acceptance to comply with REF and funder open access policies. 

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 meet the University of Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
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.

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 meet the University of Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
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 2026.

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.
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.

The agreement only covers OA publishing in hybrid journals, 25% discount is also available for Hogrefe’s gold titles.

What is available: Publish open access without publishing fees in 16 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 funded articles open access at no extra cost in BMJ's hybrid journals.
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 meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: original research article; brief report; and review articles [UKRI funded only]. Article types that are not reporting original research are not covered by this agreement. 
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.

This agreement does not include open access publishing in BMJ's full open access journals, we still need to pay to publish in these, see instructions further down this page.

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 meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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 hybrid and open access journals within the 'CUP Complete Journals Collection' through the CUP Read & Publish Agreement.
Article types: research articles, reviews, rapid communications, brief reports, case reports.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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 any Cogitatio Press journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation criteria.
How to access: Identify primary University of Exeter affiliation during submission, using your institutional email address. After acceptance, your article will be published open access without any publishing fees to pay.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025, renewing annually

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.
Article types: Research Articles; Review Articles.
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address. You should be invited to publish your paper open access with a Creative Commons licence without any publishing fees.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2026.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in all five journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development; Journal of Cell Science; Journal of Experimental Biology; Biology Open; Disease Models and Mechanisms.
Eligibility:  Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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 open access with CC BY licence in De Gruyter's hybrid journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: peer-reviewed research and review articles.
How to access: Identify affiliation with the University of Exeter during submission.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

This agreement does not include De Gruyter's open access journals, publishing in these incurs publishing fees. We recommend securing 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 open access funds.

What is available: Publish open access without publishing fees in most Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet hybrid journals. Find a participating journal.
Article types: List of eligible article types on this page. When publishing in Lancet hybrid journals only full length articles are included.
Eligibility: Submitting corresponding author as defined on this page must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: After your article has been accepted, complete the Rights and Access form to select the open access publishing option. Providing you are using a University of Exeter affiliation or email address in the publisher systems, you should see the fee discounted by 100% and the option to submit the request to our institutional account.
End date of agreement: 31st December 2025.

This agreement does not include open access journals, publishing in these incurs publishing fees. We recommend securing 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 open access funds. See below for details of a discount to the publishing fees in Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet open access journals, this discount is available to all eligible authors, whether we pay from central funds, or you pay from a research grant.

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 meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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; Geoenergy; Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis; Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society; Scottish Journal of Geology; Special Publications; Memoirs; 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 IOP Publishing journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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, all IWA journals are now fully open access.
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 the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: Publish open access without publishing fees in all JMIR Publications journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
How to access: During submission, list University of Exeter affiliation and mention that you are covered by the University of Exeter JISC agreement 'JMIR Flat Fee OA Publishing April 2025 to March 2026'. The Open Research Team will be asked to verify your affiliation, then after acceptance the article will be published open access without any publishing fees. Visit the publisher website for more details.
End date of the agreement: 31st March 2026.

What is available: no charge to publish open access in Karger's 104 journals, including hybrid and 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 meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: peer-reviewed research and review articles.
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 2026.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in Oxford University Press hybrid and open access journals.
Article types: Original research articles; 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 without publishing fees in most Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals: PLOS Biology; PLOS Climate; PLOS Complex Systems; PLOS Computational Biology; PLOS Digital Health; PLOS Genetics; PLOS Global Public Health; PLOS Mental Health; PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases; PLOS ONE; PLOS Pathogens; PLOS Water.
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.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

The agreement does not include PLOS Medicine or PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. As they are open access journals, if you doln't have funds in a research grant to pay the publishing fees, contact the Open Research team when you're ready to submit, to apply to the central open access funds.

What is available: Publish open access (OA) with CC BY licence in RSNA's Radiology journal without publishing fees. The publisher will deposit to PubMed Central.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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 journals: Journal of Cell Biology; Journal of Experimental Medicine; Journal of General Physiology.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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: No charge to publish open access in two journals published by Royal College of General Practitioners: British Journal of General Practice; BJGP Open.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: Research articles (BJGP and BJGP Open); Research Protocols (BJGP Open)
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: Publish open access with CC BY licence at no extra cost in 8 hybrid and 2 open access 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.
Eligibility: Primary corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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.
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: open access publishing without publishing fees in Royal Society of Chemistry hybrid journals.
Eligibility: Corresponding author 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. You will be offered a choice of licences, your funder may require CC BY (only).
End date of the agreement: 31st December 2025.

What is available: No charge to publish open access in SAGE hybrid journals, author retains copyright (CC-BY-NC licence is 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 meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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.

This agreement does not include in SAGE open access journals, publishing in these incurs publishing fees. Make sure you secure funding before you submit. If you don't have funds available in a research grant to pay, contact Open Research at submission to apply to the University's central open access funds. See below for details of a discount to the publishing fees in SAGE open access journals, this is available to all eligible authors, whether we pay from central open access funds or you pay from a research grant.

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.
Eligibility:  Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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: No charge to publish open access in eligible Nature Research, Palgrave and Springer hybrid journals (list on this page).
Eligibility: Primary corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: Original paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. When publishing in a Nature Portfolio journal, original paper is the only eligible 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.

This agreement does not include any Springer Nature open access journals, publishing in these incurs publishing fees. We recommend securing 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 open access funds. See below for details of a discount to the publishing fee in Springer Nature open access journals, when we pay using funds deposited in a prepayment account.

What is available: Publish open access at no extra cost in Taylor and Francis journals, including 'Open Select' hybrid journals, fully open access journals (except Dove Medical Press titles), F1000 and Routledge Open Research.
Article types: Original research and review articles.
Eligibility:  Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
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: No cost to publish open access in Wiley's hybrid or open access journals through the Read & Publish Agreement.
Etc:Eligibility: Responsible Corresponding Author as defined on this page must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria.
Article types: original research and review articles.
How to access: When submitting to a full open access 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. When publishing in a hybrid journal, select 'OnlineOpen' on the publisher forms, use 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: 10 per cent discount to the open access publishing fee and centralised billing when it is paid from central open access funds through the institutional Copernicus membership.
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 open access Funds.

What is available: 15 per cent discount when publishing in most Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet open access journals.
Article types: Peer-reviewed research articles.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria. The discount is available when paying from a research grant, or when we are paying from central open access funds.
How to access: The discount should be applied automatically when you list University of Exeter affiliation on the publisher forms.

The remaining 85 per cent of the publishing fee must be paid. If you don't have funds in a research grant to pay this, contact Open Research when you are ready to submit, to apply to the central open access funds.

What is available: 10  per cent discount and centralised billing when publishing fees are paid from central open access funds through the 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 open access 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).
How to access: Identify University of Exeter affiliation during submission, ideally using your institutional email address, and the discount will be automatically applied.

The remaining 80% publishing fee must be paid. We recommend securing 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 open access 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 discount when publishing in Royal Society of Chemistry open access journals.
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. The discount should be automatically applied.

The remaining 85 per cent of the publishing fee must be paid. We recommend securing 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 open access Funds.

What is available: 20 per cent discount in SAGE 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.

The remaining 80 per cent of the publishing fee must be paid. We recommend securing 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 open access Funds.

What is available: 15 per cent discount when publishing fee is paid through the prepayment account.
Eligibility: Corresponding author must meet the affiliation eligibility criteria. 
Article types: The discount is only available for eligible article types, list on this page.
How to access: When you complete the open access payment forms listing a University of Exeter affiliation, the funding request will automatically be sent to our institutional prepayment account, to ask us to pay.

The remaining 85 per cent of the publishing fee must be paid. We recommend securing funding before you submit. If you don't have funds in a research grant to pay, contact Open Research just before you submit to apply to the central open access funds.

If you have funds in a research grant to pay but you want to take advantage of the prepayment account discount, contact Open Researchto discuss whether we can facilitate this.

If you are publishing an ineligible article type, or in a Springer Nature journal that's not eligible for the discount, you will need to pay the full price publishing fee by credit card or invoice (payment by invoice incurs a £50 admin fee).