Institutional open access agreements

The Library subscribes to a number of institutional memberships that reduce or cover the cost of open access publication for all academic staff and PhD researchers.

With all the offers below it is advisable to get in touch with us as soon as possible as some of these discounts and vouchers cannot be applied retrospectively.

Explanatory notes

  • A hybrid journal is a journal in which some articles are freely available (after the author has paid an additional fee to make open access possible), while other articles within the journal are only accessible by subscription to the journal or payment to read individual articles.

  • The corresponding author is the individual who take primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review and publication process. They are not necessarily the first author and this is different to a contributing author.

  • Some journals will levy page and colour charges in addition to open access charges, these cannot be paid for by LJMU using our deals below and we do not have a fund to cover these. Please check with your journal before submitting to check for additional charges.

The Library has institutional memberships with the following publishers:

Faq Items

American Chemical Society (ACS) (January 2022 to December 2024)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (January 2023 to December 2025)

BMJ (January 2023 to December 2024)

Cambridge University Press (January 2021 to December 2024)

Company of Biologists (January 2020 to December 2025)

Elsevier (January 2022 to December 2025)

Emerald

IOP (January 2020 to December 2025)

Open Book Publishers (March 2022 to February 2025)

Open Library of the Humanities (2021 to 2024)

Oxford University Press (January 2024 to December 2025)

PLOS (January 2021 to December 2024)

Portland Press (January 2020 to December 2025)

Royal Society (January 2024 to December 2025)

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) (January 2021 to December 2024)

Sage (January 2020 to December 2024)

Springer Nature (January 2023 to December 2025)

Taylor and Francis (January 2024 to December 2025)

Wiley (January 2021 to December 2025)