Read and Publish Agreements
The University of Warwick has Read and Publish agreements with several publishers. Some allow you to publish your articles open access without requiring further payment to the publisher. Others entitle you to a discounted open access fee / article processing charge (APC).
To be eligible for most of the Read and Publish Agreements, the corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Warwick. Some publishers may restrict the agreements to original research articles. If given the option, we ask that authors select the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution)Link opens in a new window Licence.
- if your publisher offers free APCs: follow the instructions for your publisher below. You don't need to complete a separate application
- if your publisher offers discounted APCs: you still need to apply to use APC funding
- if your publisher doesn't offer free or discounted APCs: apply to use APC funding
🡺 Check whether your journal is covered by our Read and Publish Agreements with SciFreeLink opens in a new window
Using SciFree, you can check whether specific journals are covered by our Read and Publish Agreements. You can search using either the journal name or ISSN, and you can filter the results by publisher, coverage, licence options and types of journal.
All journals covered by our agreements are listed in SciFree, including those that only offer a discount on APCs, or those that are only available to certain authors. Using the "who pays" column, you can check whether your journal is fully covered by the agreements:
These icons indicate that the journal is fully covered by our Read and Publish Agreements.
These icons indicate that the journal only offers a discount on APCs; as a result, the rest of the APC will need to be paid and you may need to apply for APC fundingLink opens in a new window.
This icon indicates that only articles by certain authors are covered by our Read and Publish Agreements in this journal. In this case, you should consult the guidance below to see whether you are eligible.
List of Read and Publish agreements [last updated 05/03/2025]
Please take these agreements into consideration when deciding where to publish.
Free APCs
We're taking part in the American Chemical Society ‘Read & Publish’ agreement.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by any ACS journal, you have the option to make it open access at no further cost to the author.
Note - All articles accepted on or after the1 January 2022will be made open access retrospectively.
What you need to do
Follow the instructions from the ACS for:
- publishing under the American Chemical Society Read and Publish Agreement
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
For more details click here
For more details click here
We're taking part in the American Psychological Association (APA) Publishing agreement.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by any hybrid APA journal, you have the option to make it open access at no further cost to the author.
What you need to do
Follow the instructions from the APA for:
- publishing under the APA's Jisc Members Agreement
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
For more details click here
Free and discounted APCs
We're participating in the new JISC Publish and Read agreement with BMJ.
Journals covered by the agreement
- if you're a Warwick corresponding author;
- publishing work acknowledging an eligible funder (UK Research and Innovation (Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Innovate UK, Research England), British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinsons UK, Versus Arthritis or the Wellcome Trust);
- and your article is accepted by a hybrid or open access journal from BMJ authors will be able to choose to publish open access at no additional cost.
Not covered by the agreement
This agreement is only available to researchers acknowledging one of the funders listed above.
However, we also have an agreement with BMJ that entitles all Warwick corresponding authors to a discount on their APC.
What you need to do
- follow the guidance on the BMJ website, selecting ‘University of Warwick’ as your institution
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
Free APCs
We're participating in Jisc’s read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press, for articles accepted for publication between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2024.
Journals covered by the agreement
Hybrid and fully Gold Open Access journal titles included in this CUP journal list (Excel download).
What you need to do
- use the How to publish Open Access under this agreement section on CUP’s website:
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
For more details click here
For more details click here
Free and discounted APCs
We're participating in the new JISC Read and Publish agreement with Elsevier.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by a journal in one of the collections below:
When publishing in applicable Elsevier hybrid journals, authors will be able to choose to publish open access at no additional cost.
Not covered by the agreement
A small number of Elsevier’s hybrid titles are excluded from the agreement – please use their journal search tool to check your journal is included.
APCs for articles in Elsevier’s Pure Gold Open Access journals aren't covered, but a 15% discount is available. If you wish to publish in these journals you'll need to apply for APC funding.
What you need to do
- follow these instructions from Elsevier under "Instructions for Corresponding Authors"
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
From January 2021, all articles published in IET journals will be fully Open Access – free to read, download and share, and subject to a CC-BY licence.
Content published from 2013 up until the year of the transition will show as Free Access. This means that all copyrighted content published from 2013 will be free to access, download and share, but will not be subject to a CC-BY licence.
IET is now part of the Wiley Read and Publish agreement. Please follow the Wiley instructions for a free APC.
Free APCs
We're participating in the IoP agreement under which you can publish Open Access in the majority of IOP’s hybrid journals without needing to acquire separate funding.
Journals covered by the agreement
Journals in List A, B, C and D on IoP’s list of eligible journals.
What you need to do
- follow the How to take advantage of this agreement instructions from IoP
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
Free APCs
We're participating in Jisc’s read and publish agreement with Oxford University Press.
Journals covered by the agreement
Nearly all OUP’s hybrid and fully Gold Open Access journal titles listed on OUP’s participating journals webpage. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
What you need to do
Follow the instructions at OUP’s authors
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
For more details click here
Free APCs
We're taking part in the Royal Society ‘Read & Publish’ agreement.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by any Royal Society journal, you have the option to make it open access at no further cost to the author: Royal Society journal list.
What you need to do
Follow the instructions from the Royal Society for:
- using the Royal Society Read and Publish agreement
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds
Free APCs
We’re participating in the Jisc/Royal Society of Chemistry ‘Read and Publish’ agreement.
Journals covered by the agreement
You can choose to publish in any of the journals RSC class as hybrid (i.e. all journals except their gold open access journals and Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP), which are already free to access) and which have a CC-BY licence.
What you need to do
- follow the ‘Read and Publish Author Guidelines’ from RSC
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
Please note – for RSC extras, such as reprints or cover artwork charges, are not covered by this agreement, and cannot be covered by the UKRI block grant. If you accept these charges, then you are responsible for funding them.
Free and discounted APCs
We're participating in JISC’s Read and Publish agreement with Sage.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by a journal in one of the collections below, it will be Open Access without you needing to acquire separate funding:
- current SAGE Premier package
- IMechE Journal Collection
- Royal Society of MedicineCollection
Not covered by the agreement
APCs for articles in Sages’ Pure Gold Open Access journals aren't covered, but a 20% discount is available. If you wish to publish in these journals you'll need to apply for APC funding.
What you need to do
- follow these instructions from Sage under "Subscription journals"
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
Free APCs
We're participating in SCOAP3(Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), which allows authors to publish Open Access in key journals in the field of High Energy Physics at no cost to the author.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by one of the High Energy Physics journals participating in the SCOAP3 it will be Open Access without the need for separate funding.
Titles included in the 2nd and 3rd phase of this scheme are:
- Acta Physica Polonica B
- Advances in High Energy Physics
- Chinese Physics C
- The European Physical Journal C
- The Journal of High Energy Physics
- Nuclear Physics B
- Physics Letters B
- Physical Review C
- Physical Review D
- Physical Review Letters
- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
What you need to do
- Follow the submission process in each journal's guidelines
- Authors won't pay any fees or need to complete any extra admin
- Include your ORCiD in the submission process
Free APCs
We are participating in the Springer Nature Open Access agreement.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a University of Warwick corresponding author publishing in one of the Springer, Nature or Palgrave journals in the "Hybrid journal list" on Read and Publish agreements, your article will be Open Access by default.
Fully Open Access Journals
APCs for articles in the Springer, Nature or BioMed Central Open Access journals will be covered by the agreement if you are funded by UKRI or the Wellcome Trust. In addition, all University of Warwick corresponding authors will recieve a 15% discount on their open access fees, regardless of the funding acknowledged.
What you need to do
- follow these instructions from Springer confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds, unless you are publishing in a fully open access journal.
Free APCs
We're taking part in the Taylor & Francis JISC Read and Publish agreement. APC costs will be taken from a shared fund for participating UK Jisc institutions under a first come, first served approach. There is an annual cap.
Journals covered by the agreement
These Taylor & Francis’ “Open Select” hybrid journals.
Journals not covered by the agreement
Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open fully Gold Open Access titles.
35 Premium titles where the APC costs exceed £3,000.
What you need to do
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
Free APCs
We're taking part in Wiley’s JISC agreement. APC costs will come from a shared fund for participating institutions.
Journals covered by the agreement
If you're a Warwick corresponding author and your article is accepted by one of the journals below, it will be Open Access; you won't need to get separate funding:
- Wiley’s fully Gold Open Access journals(xlsx)
- Wiley’s hybrid (subscription) Online Open journals(xlsx)
What you need to do
Follow the instructions from Wiley for:
- publishing your article in a fully Gold Open Access journal (pdf)
- or making your article Open Access with OnlineOpen (pdf)
- confirm that you're the corresponding author
- Please note: Wiley now require you to allocate one Responsible Corresponding Author (RCA) at submission stage. This role will be used to determine eligibility for the Read and Publication agreement and cannot be altered
- confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Warwick
- use your Warwick email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
- use a CC-BY licence
You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.
List of other agreements [last updated 05/03/2025]
The content for all 51 Annual Reviews journals is invited. They don't accept submitted articles and they do not use an APC model.
If you are invited to publish in any of their Subscribe to Open journals, your article will be Open Access.
Emerald’s Green Open Access policy allows you to make your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) openly and immediately available in the institutional repository with no embargo from the date of first online publication.
Journals not covered by the agreement
- These Gold Open Access journals require an APC; this is not part of the agreement:
- International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management
- Mental Illness
What you need to do
- Insert this text into your AAM:
- “This author accepted manuscript is deposited under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) licence. This means that anyone may distribute, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, subject to full attribution. If you wish to use this manuscript for commercial purposes, please contact permissions@emerald.com
- Use the WRAPSimple Deposit to send us your AAM
- Keep the AAM under embargo with access restricted until first official online publication on Emerald’s site
- Use a CC BY NC licence
More details to follow
More details to follow
For updates about ongoing negotiations, please see our Current Journal Negotiations page.
Enquiries about all of these agreements can be directed to the Open Research Team, at openaccessfund@warwick.ac.uk.
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