Institutional Open Access Agreements

Agreements to help you publish open access

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

* 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:

• American Chemical Society (ACS) (Jan 2022 - Dec 2024)

  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) (Jan 2023 – Dec 2025)

  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.
  
  
  

• American Psychological Association (APA) (Aug 2022 - July 2023)

  Included: APA's hybrid* PsycArticles
  
  Excluded: Hogefe Collection. 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
  
  
  

• Cambridge University Press (Jan 2021 - Dec 2024)

  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 (Jan 2020 - Dec 2024)

  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 (Jan 2022 - Dec 2024)

  Included: Elsevier's Core hybrid* titles (including hybrid* titles in the Cell Press and Lancet Collections). Find participating journals using the Elsevier checker tool.
  
  Excluded: Elsevier's full open access (Gold) journals. 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.
  
  
  

• IEEE (Jan 2022- Dec 2023)

  Included: a limited number of APCs available for publishing in both their fully open access (Gold) and hybrid* journals.
  
  Excluded: Conference papers. 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. As tokens are limited you must contact lst_research_support@ljmu.ac.uk to reserve one before submitting your article or you may be billed if all tokens have been allocated.
  
  
  

• IOP (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023)

  Included: the 44 hybrid* journals managed editorially by IOP publishing as well as 12 partner titles. For a list of titles LJMU authors are able to publish in (Lists A and B) go to IOP open access for the UK.
  
  Excluded: IOP's fully open access (Gold) journals as well as some partner titles (check list above for eligible partner titles). 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.
  
  
  

• Microbiology Society (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023)

  Included: all Microbiology Society 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.
  
  
  

• Open Book Publishers (Mar 2022 - Feb 2025)

  LJMU are members of the Open Book Publishers scheme which is an award-winning, non-profit publisher of Open Access monographs, run by academics in Cambridge and London and committed to making high- quality research freely available to readers around the world.
  
  
  

• Open Library of the Humanities (2021 - 2024)

  LJMU is a supporter of The Open Library of the Humanities (OLH). The OLH publishing platform and model ensures there are no article processing charges (APCs) for any researchers. OLH currently publishes and funds 27 journals.
  
  
  

• Oxford University Press (Jan 2022 - Dec 2023)

  Included: Research and Review articles in 400+ OUP hybrid* and fully open access (Gold) journals (exclusions below).
  
  Excluded: American Historical Review; Journal of American History; Social Work. 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.
  
  
  

• PLOS (Jan 2021 - Dec 2023)

  Included: All PLOS titles. In addition for the titles PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology and PLOS Sustainability and Transformation if the you are a co-author but the corresponding author is from a non-member institution, then you may pass on a 25% APC discount to the non-member institution.
  
  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.
  
  
  

• Portland Press (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023)

  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 of Chemistry (RSC) (Jan 2021 - Dec 2024)

  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 (Jan 2020 - May 2023)

  Included: Sage's eligible hybrid* journals. Check the Sage website for details of eligible titles. In addition a 20% discount for fully open access (Gold) journals where you are the corresponding** author.
  
  Excluded: Sage's fully open access (Gold) journals (20% 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.
  
  
  

• SPIE (Nov 2022 – Oct 2023)

  Included: SPIE's hybrid* Author choice and fully open access (Gold) journals.
  
  Excluded: Proceedings 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.
  
  
  

• Springer (Jan 2019 - Jun 2023)

  Included: Springer’s Open Choice journals. Find participating journals using the eligible journals list: Springer current journals page.
  
  Excluded: Springer's fully open access (Gold) journals. 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.
  
  
  

• Taylor and Francis (Jan 2021 - December 2023)

  Included: Original research articles in Taylor and Francis hybrid* Open Select journals. Find participating journals using the Taylor and Francis how-to guide for authors.
  
  Excluded: Taylor and Francis fully open access (Gold) journals. 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 (Jan 2021 - Dec 2023)

  Included: Original research articles in Wiley hybrid* OnlineOpen and 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.