American Chemical Society (ACS) (January 2025 to December 2026)
Included: All ACS Journals (includes ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au Collection and all ACS hybrid titles).
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: All ACM titles in the ACM digital library.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
BMJ (January 2023 to December 2026)
Included: Original research articles reporting on primary research and funded by UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Blood Cancer UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Innovate UK, Parkinson’s or Versus Arthritis UK in BMJ’s hybrid journals. Page and colour charges (if charged).
Excluded: BMJ’s fully open access (Gold) journals.
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation. You must include acknowledgement of one of the BMJ recognised funders (see above under Included). For full author instructions please refer to the BMJ website before submission.
Cambridge University Press (January 2026 to December 2029)
Included: All CUPs hybrid and full open access (Gold) journals.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Company of Biologists (January 2020 to December 2026)
Included: All Company of Biologists hybrid and fully open access (Gold) journals.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Elsevier (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Elsevier's Core hybrid titles (including hybrid titles in the Cell Press and Lancet Collections). Find participating journals using the Elsevier checker tool. In addition a 15% discount for fully open access (Gold) journals where you are the corresponding author.
Excluded: Elsevier's full open access (Gold) journals (15% discount of APCs see above). Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Emerald
Whilst they do not offer an institutional agreement to publish open access in their journals Emerald operates a zero-embargo period policy which means authors can self-archive their author accepted manuscript to an institutional repository immediately on publication. For more information about this see 'Self-Archiving' on Open access publishing.
IOP (January 2020 to December 2026)
Included: Primary research articles, including research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles in hybrid and fully open access (gold) titles (exclusions below).
For a list of titles LJMU authors are able to publish in (Lists A, B and D) go to IOP open access for the UK. Please note only primary research articles are covered by the publishing agreement in Reports on Progress in Physics.
Excluded: Fully open access (Gold) journals published on behalf of the American Astronomical Society. Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Oxford University Press (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Research articles, review articles, brief reports and case reports in most OUP hybrid and fully open access (Gold) journals (exclusions below).
Excluded: Karger journals, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, Reproduction, European Heart Journal Supplements; JNCI Monographs; Journal of Computational Design and Engineering; Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. Article-commentary types. Titles that don’t include an open access option. Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Portland Press (January 2020 to December 2026)
Included: All 7 Portland Press Research and Review journals.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Royal Society (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: All Royal Society’s hybrid and fully open access journals.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (January 2026 to December 2029)
Included: Peer reviewed articles (full papers, communications and reviews) in RSCs hybrid journals.
Excluded: RSC's fully open access (Gold) journals and types of output not in the included section above. Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation both on the manuscript and in the online submission system.
Sage (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Sage’s eligible hybrid and open access journals. Eligible hybrid journal list (Excel spreadsheet of titles). Eligible open access journal list (Excel spreadsheet of titles).
Excluded: A Current Bibliography on African Affairs, Abstracts in Anthropology, Advances in Dental Research, Handbook of Practice Management, Index on Censorship, InnovAiT, International Political Science Abstracts / Documentation Politique Internationale, Phi Delta Kappan Magazine and Political Insight. Page and colour charges (if charged). Submission charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Springer Nature (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Springer, Nature and Palgrave hybrid journals. Page and colour charges (if charged). Please see the eligible journal lists for the Springer portfolio and Nature portfolio on Springer's Open access agreements for JISC page.
Excluded: Springer and Nature fully open access (Gold) journals.
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Taylor and Francis (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Original research articles in Taylor and Francis hybrid and full open access journals (exclusions below). Publishing in F1000Research and Routledge Open Research.
Excluded: Dove Medical Press titles, Peer J and the Expert Medical titles), editorials, announcements and book reviews. Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.
Wiley (January 2026 to December 2028)
Included: Original research and review articles in Wiley hybrid OnlineOpen and Wiley and Hindawi fully open access (Gold) journals.
Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).
Instructions for authors: You must be the article's responsible corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation. Please be aware that this fund is limited nationally, so the terms of eligibility may change during the course of the year.