Read & publish deals
To support the transition to open access, the Library has signed up to several transformative agreements. These allow University of Bristol corresponding authors to publish their Peer-Reviewed Research as Gold open access at no additional cost. Terms vary, please see a list of publishers and further details below.
Check whether your journal is included
Authors must use their University of Bristol email address when submitting articles to the relevant journal and it is essential that a CC BY licence is selected.
Page and Colour Charges
Please note: These deals will not cover charges for additional page, colour illustrations or other non-open access charges. We have no budget for these charges and are not permitted to use our funder block grants to pay for them. If your publisher asks you for these fees you need to ask for them to waive them or see if there is funding available within your department.
UKRI and Wellcome funded authors
Many read & publish deals cover hybrid journals only, BHF, CRUK, UKRI or Wellcome funded authors publishing in fully open access journals can still apply for open access support via the Open Access Claim Form.
Authors without UKRI and Wellcome funding
If you do not have UKRI or Wellcome funding, you do not need to fill out a claim form, but must still select a CC BY licence. You can apply to the journal as normal, using your University of Bristol email address.
Please note that we do not have a central institutional fund for open access that falls outside these deals, instead we support open access through the self-archiving your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in Pure.
To check whether your chosen journal is included in one of these deals, use the SciFree Journal Checker
Publisher |
Details |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles and conference proceedings to these journals. See publisher information. |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles to these 78 journals. See publisher instructions. |
American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See further information and instructions (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
American Meteorological Society |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to AMS journals, including all AMS technical journals (whether hybrid or open access) and the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS). See titles and further information. |
American Physiological Society |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See Online Only titles (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
Berghahn |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) that ensures all publications in Berghahn OpenAnthro journals are open access with a CC-BY licence. See details and further information. |
Bioscientifica |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See information and titles (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
BMJ |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors, subject to UKRI and Wellcome funding. Credits are capped across participating institutions; the deal will end when all credits have been used. See titles (UKRI, Wellcome and former COAF members ONLY). |
Brill |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See all titles. |
Bristol University Press |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). UoB authors can publish OA work in BUP journals without the need to pay an article processing charge. |
Cambridge University Press |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See information and eligibility tool. |
Cold Spring Harbor |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles to hybrid journals. See titles: Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, Learning & Memory. |
Company of Biologists |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See titles. |
De Gruyter |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See titles under the Journals and yearbooks - subscription (GBP) list. |
Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences (EDP) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) that ensures all publications in EDP journals are open access with a CC-BY licence. See details and further information. |
Elsevier |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See information and search for participating journal titles. (EXCLUDES fully open access journals) |
European Respiratory Society |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles to European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research and European Respiratory Review. |
Future Science Group |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See information and titles. |
Geological Society (Lyell Collection) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See titles. |
International Water Association (IWA) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). All titles covered EXCEPT Water Research X and Water Research. See publisher instructions. |
IOP |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to journals in Lists A, B and D. See publisher information. |
JMIR Publications |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See title list. Submissions should include UoB affiliation, UoB email and mention in cover letter "requesting APC waiver via the Open-JMIR unlimited OA publishing deal". |
John Benjamins Publishing |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to any John Benjamins journal. See publisher information. |
Microbiology Society |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). All titles covered EXCEPT JMM Case Reports. See further information. |
Modern Languages Open (MLO) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to Modern Languages Open (MLO). Please quote 'UoB APC waiver' in the ‘Author comments’ section of the submission form. Credits are capped; the deal will end when all credits have been used. |
Optica |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) for publishing in Optica's UK journals. |
Oxford University Press |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles. See information and title list. |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles. See included titles. Deal EXCLUDES PLoS Sustainability & Transformation, PLoS Climate, PLoS Global Public Health, and PLoS Water. |
Portland Press |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See information and title list. |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors submitting research articles (regardless of research grant funding). |
Rockefeller University Press |
We have a deal covering UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See information and title list. |
Royal College of General Practitioner |
We have a deal covering UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) publishing in BJGP and BJGP Open. |
Royal Society of Chemistry |
We have a deal covering UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See information (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
Royal Society Publishing |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding). See information and titles. |
Sage |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to (MOST) hybrid journals. See titles (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
Springer |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to hybrid journals. See information and title list (EXCLUDES fully open access journals). |
Society for Neuroscience |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors submitting research articles to the Journal of Neuroscience (regardless of research grant funding). |
Taylor & Francis |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles to hybrid journals. See information and title list (EXCLUDES fully open access journals) |
Thieme |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting to the following journals in the Chemistry Collection. See information and title list. |
Wiley |
We have a deal for UoB corresponding authors (regardless of research grant funding) submitting research articles to hybrid and open access journals. See information and title list. |