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Open Access agreements & discounts

The Library enables Sussex and corresponding authors to publish their work Gold Open Access through a variety of Transformative Agreements, memberships and discounts.

Criteria for each agreement are detailed below but please contact the Open Access team as early as possible if you’re planning to publish - the sooner you do, the more we can help!

Please note that the Library does not wish to influence authors’ decisions on where to publish and the list below is not an endorsement of any particular publisher.

If you are unsure about any of the information below, please contact the Library Open Access team at openaccess@sussex.ac.uk.

Transformative Agreements

Transformative Agreements (sometimes known as Transitional Agreements) offer eligible corresponding authors the opportunity to publish Open Access at no cost and provide a potential route to compliance for certain UK funders’ Open Access policies, including Wellcome and UKRI. Please refer to the conditions for each agreement below or get in touch for more info.

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  ACM OPEN Read & Publish Agreement 2023 - 2025

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish their research articles Open Access in all ACM journals at no cost to themselves
  • Details of author actions required can be found in the ACM Open Author Rights Workflow [PDF 1.06MB]

  For further information please see  

• American Chemical Society

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  ACS Read & Publish Program 2022-2024

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish their research articles Open Access in all ACS journals at no cost to themselves

  Author actions:

  • Corresponding authors must use their Sussex email address and select their affiliation via a dropdown during the submission process

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)

  Deal: Publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  AIP Read and Publish Agreement 2024-2025

  Please note: an annual article cap applies to this agreement, at which point the eligibility criteria may be subject to change

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø corresponding authors can publish open access in any AIP hybrid subscription titles at no cost to the author
  • Eligible article types – Research article, Brief Communication, Communication, Conference Article, Fast Track or Article-FT, Letter, Note, Perspective, Research Update, Review and Road Map

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• American Physical Society (APS)
  

  Deal: Publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  APS Read and Publish 2023 - 2025

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø corresponding authors can publish open access in all 9 hybrid peer-reveiwed Physical Review journals published by APS
  • Eligible article types - Original research and reveiws, including, but not limited to: regular articles, letters, reviews, perspectives and tutorials

  For further information vist

• Bristol University Press (BUP) (incl. Policy Press)
  

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to the author (Transformative Agreement)

  BUP Journals Collection Read and Publish Agreement 2024
  

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access in BUP hybrid journals at no cost to the author
  • In addition corresponding authors will be eligible to a 20% discount on the APC in the OA only Global Social Callenges Journal
  • Corresponding authors will also be eligible for a 15% discount on BPCs and CPCs when publishing books and chapters with BUP
  • Eligible article types are original peer reviewed research and review articles

  Author Actions:

  Once your paper has been accepted email bup-journals@bristol.ac.uk including details of your submission and the name of your instituion in the email to claim your open access

  For further information see

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Read and Publish agreement 2021-2024

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access in Gold and hybrid journals at no cost to the author through the Cambridge University Press Read and Publish Agreement
  • Publish research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports

   

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
  

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Read and Publish agreement 2025-2026
  

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access with a in 4 research titles at no cost to the author: Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, and Learning & Memory
  • This offer applies to research articles, review articles and case study articles
  • Corresponding authors should ensure that their institutional affiliation and institutional email address is correctly entered in the publisher’s submission system

• Company of Biologists

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Read and Publish agreement 2025-2026

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access with a in 5 research titles at no cost to the author: 
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  • Corresponding authors should ensure that their institutional affiliation and institutional email address is correctly entered in the publisher’s submission system

• De Gruyter

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  De Gruyter Journal Open Access R&P Transitional Agreement 2024-2025

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access with a in hybrid and fully Open Access journals at no cost to the author - Some partner or society journals apply a CC BY-NC-ND licence
  • Corresponding author to identify affiliation with the º£½ÇÉçÇø when submitting. Using your Sussex email address should also confirm your affiliation

• Elsevier (incl. Cell Press)
  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)
  
  

  Elsevier-UK Institutions Agreement 2022-2025

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø affiliated corresponding authors can publish their peer-reviewed research Gold OA at no additional cost in
  • Corresponding authors can also benefit from a 15% discount on the list price APC in Elsevier's fully Gold OA journals. The Library does not have funds to cover the remaining APC amount 
  • Please note this agreement covers the Open Access charge (APC) only and not page or colour charges if applied

  Author actions:

  • Once your article has been accepted for publication in a , you will receive an email containing a link to the "post-acceptance author journey". Upon selecting your publishing options, your affiliation will be validated by your institution, and you will be informed if the APC will be covered by the agreement
  • Upon publication, your final published Open Access article will be made freely available on , the world's largest publishing platform

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• Institute of Physics (IOP)
  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)
  
  

  IOP Read and Publish 2024-2025

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø affiliated corresponding authors can publish their work Gold OA at no additional cost in IOP’s journals on lists A, B, C and D.
  • Corresponding authors can also benefit from a 70% discount on the standard APC of hybrid journals not included in the main list
  • Please note this agreement covers the Open Access charge only and not page or colour charges if applied

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• Oxford University Press (OUP)

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  OUP Read and Publish Agreement 2024-2025

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø affiliated corresponding authors can publish their work Gold OA at no cost to the author (please note that page/colour charges can apply; please check the submission guidelines for your chosen journal)
  • Eligible article types: Research article, review article, brief reports and case reports
  • All eligible articles will be published under a , except for society titles that do not offer a CC BY option
  • Please note this agreement covers the Open Access charge only and not page or colour charges if applied

  Author Actions:

  • Corresponding authors must use their institutional address and email address
  • OUP Open Access step by step user guide

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• Public Library of Science (PLOS)

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)  Both agreements under review for 2025

  From January 2023, Sussex corresponding authors will be able to publish in without charge under our new PLOS Community Action Publishing agreement. For more details, please contact the team on openaccess@sussex.ac.uk

   

  PLOS Flat Fee for Six 2022-2024

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø affiliated authors can publish Gold OA at no cost to the author in six PLOS journals:

  Author actions:

  • Upon submitting your manuscript to any of the eligible PLOS journals, authors should list their institutional affiliation in PLOS' submission system

• Portland Press

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Read and Publish agreement 2023 - 2024
  

  • Corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish Open Access in all 7 of the Portland Press journals with a  at no cost to the author
  • Corresponding authors should ensure that their institutional affiliation and institutional email address is correctly entered in the publisher’s submission system

• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to the author (Transformative Agreement)

  Royal Society of Chemistry Read & Publish Agreement 2022-2025

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish peer-reviewed articles in RSC Hybrid journals at no cost to themselves
  • All peer-reviewed article types are covered in this agreement which fall into three main categories: full papers, communications, and reviews.
  • Please note this agreement is capped. This entry will be updated if the publishing limit has been reached

  Author actions:

  • Corresponding authors must state their affiliation and use their Sussex email address in the author submission workflow

• Royal Society Publishing

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Royal Society Journals Read and Publish Transitional Agreement 2024
  

  • º£½ÇÉçÇø affiliated corresponding authors can publish their work Gold OA with a CC BY licence at no cost to the author in any Royal Society journal 

   Author actions:

  • During the submission process, simply state details of your institution and select the 'Read & Publish' option 

   For more information, visit 

• SAGE

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  SAGE Journals Read and Publish 2023 - 2024

  • The º£½ÇÉçÇø has signed a transformative agreement with SAGE for unlimited open access publishing in SAGE's full portfolio of hybrid journals.
  • In addition, authors publishing in any of SAGE's fully open access journals will receive a 20% APC discount.
  • Please note this agreement covers the Open Access charge only and not page or colour charges if applied

  Author actions:

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with Sussex should automatically be included in this deal. 

• Springer Nature
  

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Springer Nature Read and Publish 2023-2025

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø can publish their papers Gold open access free of charge
  • Deal applies to most Springer and Nature Portfolio journals.

   Author actions:

  • During the submission process state that you are affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø and use your University email address
  • The request will come through to the Library from Springer to confirm you are eligible as a University member

    

• Taylor & Francis

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Taylor & Francis Read and Publish OA Agreement 2024-2025
  

  Please note: an annual article cap applies to this agreement, at which point the eligibility criteria may be subject to change.

  • Taylor & Francis offer corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø the opportunity to publish Gold OA when publishing in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid), Fully OA / F 1000 Research and Routledge Open Research  Journals at no cost to themselves.

   Author actions:

  • You do not need to do anything. All accepted research articles meeting the eligibility requirements will be considered for OA publication under this agreement. If approved by the University, you will receive an email asking you to select a
  • The University prefers, and certain research funders require, a to be selected. If in doubt, please contact openaccess@sussex.ac.uk

  To be eligible, articles must:

  • Be original research articles. Other types of paper may be considered for F1000 Research and Routledge Open Research
  • Be accepted for publication after the 1st of January 2024
  • Have a corresponding author affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø

• Wiley

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author (Transformative Agreement)

  Jisc Wiley Read and Publish Agreement 2024-2025

  • This agreement allows Sussex corresponding authors to publish primary research articles, review articles and case reports Gold OA under a Creative Commons licence at no cost to the author, (subject to the availability of sufficient funds for articles published in fully OA journals)
  • Most subscription (hybrid) and all fully OA journals are eligible. The journal must offer an OA option to be included in the deal. , or and . 
  • If you are eligible, you are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this agreement

  Author actions:

  • When publishing in a subscription (hybrid) journal, a Wiley fully open access journal or Hindawi fully open access journal go to this webpage and scroll down to the 'How to publish' guides
  • To find the eligibility criteria go to this webpage

  If your paper was funded by one of the UK Research Councils (UKRI), former COAF medical charities (including Wellcome Trust) or another funder that requires the , ensure that you select this option when asked. The University encourages other authors to choose .

Discounts and Memberships

Eligible corresponding authors can apply for discounts/memberships to reduce publication costs with these publishers. Please refer to the conditions for each agreement below or get in touch for more info.

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  Deal: APC discount

  AAAS Journals Agreement 2023-2025

  • 10% APC discount when publishing in Science Advances
  • Available to corresponding authors affiliated to the º£½ÇÉçÇø 

   

• Cogitatio

  Institutional Membership 2023-25 (This agreement applies to articles submitted after 1 January 2023)

  The Library’s institutional membership covers the article processing charges (APC) of all articles authored by corresponding authors affiliated with the institution in the following open access journals:

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  Author actions:

  During the submission process state that you are affiliated with the º£½ÇÉçÇø and use your University email address (with suffix @sussex.ac.uk)

  For more information, please visit

• MDPI

  Deal: APC discount

  The Institutional Open Access Programme (IOAP) 2024

  • Affiliated authors receive a 20% discount on MDPI APCs
  • Affiliated authors receive a 10% discount on MDPI BPCs at MDPI Books
  • Deal applies to all MDPI journals

  Author Actions:

  • Authors are prompted in the last step of submission to confirm they are eligible for discounts under the open access scheme
  • The program is pre-selected if authors are submitting from an institutional computer with a registered IP address

   

• PeerJ

  Deal: publish Gold OA at no cost to author 

  Institutional Three-Year Fixed Term Memberships

  • Our PeerJ Three Year Fixed Term Memberships are valid from the date of an author’s first publication and for a further 36 months, during which they can publish up to two more articles at any point, giving authors more flexibility as to when they publish
  • Under the agreement, all co-authors must hold a PeerJ Membership in order to publish; any Memberships previously held by Sussex-affiliated authors remain valid

  Author actions:

  • Use your Sussex email address during submission process and follow PeerJ's guidance once your article has been accepted
  • The request will come through to the Library from PeerJ to approve with no further action needed by you

Supported initiatives

The Library supports a variety of Open Access publication models and believes in the need for a diverse range of options for its authors. To that end, we contribute to the following initiatives; Sussex authors interested in exploring publication options with these publishers can read more on each entry or get in touch for more info on openaccess@sussex.ac.uk