Corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access at no cost in ACS journals (ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au collection, and all ACS hybrid journals). 

The agreement applies to research articles only.

Research articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

Corresponding authors will need to use their institutional email address and select their institution from a drop-down menu during the online manuscript submission process. Please read the ACS instructions on how to publish under this Read and Publish agreement. 

Until 31 December 2025, and subject to an annual cap, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in AIP's hybrid journals without needing to pay an Article Processing Charge.

The agreement applies to the following types of peer-reviewed article: Brief Communication; Communication; Conference Article; Fast Track or Article-FT; Letter; Note; Perspective; Article; Research Update; Review; Roadmap; Tutorial; Methods. 

Note: overlength page charges will apply for articles accepted in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA).  

Research articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

Corresponding authors will need to use their institutional address and email address during the submission process. Author guidelines are available on the AIP Read and Publish page.

Corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish their research articles on an open access basis in the following AMS journals at no cost:

Research articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

Corresponding authors should use their University of Nottingham email address during submission and select 'University of Nottingham' as their affiliation. Author guidelines are available at the AMS Author Information hub.

Until 31 December 2025, articles are eligible for APC-free open access publishing as long as the corresponding author is affiliated to the University of Nottingham and the journal is a hybrid title listed below:

Eligible article types include Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, and Short Papers.

Corresponding authors should use their University of Nottingham email address during submission. For more information, please see the publisher's page on this agreement. 

The agreement covers open access charges only: authors will be liable for any optional additional fees such as print colour charges and offprints.

Until 31 December 2025, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish articles on an open access basis in the following APS hybrid journals at no cost:

Articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

Corresponding authors will be offered a one-year APS membership free of charge (new members only).

Corresponding authors should use their University of Nottingham email address during submission.

Until 31 December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in the following Bioscientifica hybrid journals at no cost:

• Journal of Endocrinology;
• Journal of Molecular Endocrinology;
• Endocrine-Related Cancer; and
• Reproduction.

 All article types are included and will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

Corresponding authors will need to use their institutional email address during the submission process. 

From 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2025, funded* corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access at no cost in the following 35 BMJ hybrid titles:

 *Funded means an article which acknowledges funding from any of the following: Blood Cancer UK; British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Parkinson's UK; UKRI (AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK, MRC, NERC, Research England, STFC); Versus Arthritis; Wellcome Trust.

To comply with funder requirements, authors must select the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence from the journal.

Article types eligible under this agreement are original articles reporting on primary research and (UKRI-funded) review articles.

Corresponding authors will be asked to indicate eligibility on submission by using their institutional email address and selecting their institution. Please see BMJ's Information for Authors page for further details about the agreement and instructions for authors at participating UK institutions.

Note: Funded authors can receive a partial discount on APCs in BMJ's fully open access (gold) titles and authors not funded by the above-named funders can receive a partial discount on APCs in BMJ's hybrid or gold titles. Please see our APC discounts page for further information. 

Until 31 December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in Brill's hybrid or fully open access journals without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). 

 Article types eligible under this agreement are research articles, review articles and conference papers.

Corresponding authors will be asked to indicate eligibility on submission by using their institutional email address and selecting their institution. Please see Brill's Information for Authors page for further details about the agreement and instructions for authors at participating UK institutions.

Until 31 December 2025, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in CUP's hybrid or fully open access (gold) journals at no cost. 

Article types eligible under this agreement: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, case reports.

Corresponding authors must use their institutional address and email address during the submission process.  

For further information, please read the publisher's CUP-Jisc Read and Publish Agreement page.

Until 31 December 2026, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors can publish research or review articles on an open access basis at no cost in the following CSHLP titles:

• Genes & Development;
• Genome Research;
• RNA; and
• Learning & Memory

Eligibility will be determined by the institutional affiliation and email address used during submission. For further information, please read the publisher's page about transformative agreements which includes FAQs for authors.

Until 31 December 2026, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors can benefit from open access publishing of research articles at no cost in the following titles:

• Development;
• Journal of Cell Science; 
• Journal of Experimental Biology;
• Disease Models & Mechanisms; and
• Biology Open

Authors should use their institutional email address during submission in order to be identified as eligible.

Please read the publisher's announcement about this Read and Publish agreement and their step-by-step guide for authors.

Until 31 December 2025, authors will be eligible for APC-free publishing in any De Gruyter journal type.

Authors should use their institutional email address during submission in order to be identified as eligible.

For further details, please read the De Gruyter page on open access agreements which includes information on the UK agreement. 

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors (including those at the China and Malaysia campuses) will be able to publish on an open access basis at no cost in the following:

• Elsevier hybrid journals;
• Cell Press hybrid journals; and
• The Lancet hybrid journals.

This 'Read and Publish' agreement covers research and review articles (some exceptions apply in Cell Press and The Lancet titles).

Authors should use their institutional credentials (affiliation, email address) during submission in order to be identified as eligible. Please refer to the Elsevier page about the agreement, which includes instructions to corresponding authors.

Note: UoN corresponding authors can also receive a partial discount on APCs in fully open access Elsevier, Cell Press and The Lancet titles. Please see our APC discounts page for further information.

Until 31 December 2025, University of Nottingham corresponding authors can publish on an open access basis without paying the associated Article Processing Charge (APC) in any journal appearing in Lists A, B, C or D on the IOP page of eligible journals.

The following eight journals are also included in the IOP agreement with UK institutions:

Eligible article types: primary research articles, including research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles. Note: review articles in Reports on Progress in Physics are not covered.

Authors remain liable for any other (non-APC) publication charges that may be imposed by individual journals (e.g. page charges).

Please read the IOP Guide to submitting under a Transformative Agreement for further instructions. 

The corresponding author will be required to provide their affiliation in the article submission form and in the article itself.

Until 31 December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham will be able to publish their research articles on an open access basis in John Benjamins hybrid journals without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). 

Corresponding authors should use their institutional credentials when submitting their manuscript. Please see the publisher's Read and Publish Deals page for further details about the agreement with UK institutions.

Until 31 December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in Karger's hybrid or fully open access journals without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). 

Corresponding authors should use their institutional credentials when submitting their manuscript. Please see Karger's Publish and Access Transformative Agreements page for further details about the agreement with Jisc institutions in the UK.

Until 31 December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham may publish open access in Optica's core hybrid/fully open access journals without having to pay an APC.

Optica's partner journals are not included in the agreement.

To see whether your journal of interest is included or not, please consult the 'Core journals' section of Optica's publications page. Please also read the publisher's page about institutional open access agreements. 

Article types eligible under this Read and Publish agreement: Research Article, Letter, Memorandum, Discussion, Negative Results, Reproducibility Studies, Opinion, Engineering & Laboratory Note, Tutorial, Review.

Authors will be liable for any colour or overlength pages that apply. 

Corresponding author must use institutional address and email address at point of submission. 

From 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2025, corresponding authors affiliated to the University of Nottingham (including the China and Malaysia campuses) may publish open access in OUP's hybrid journals or fully open access (gold) journals at no cost.

Article types eligible under this Read and Publish agreement are research articles, review articles, brief reports and case reports.

Corresponding author must use institutional address and email address at point of submission. OUP will ask author to select ‘UK Institutions (Jisc affiliated)’ when completing the online licensing/payment process.

For further details and full author instructions, please read the OUP page for authors at participating UK institutions. The workflow for authors is explained in this step-by-step guide.

Please note that the University subscribes to OUP's 2025 Collection: the list of eligible titles in the 2025 Collection can be found on the OUP page about the agreement but do contact the Open Access team if you are unsure.

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors will be able to publish open access, with no APC to pay, in the following Portland Press titles:

• Biochemical Journal;
• Biochemical Society Transactions;
• Bioscience Reports; 
• Clinical Science;
• Emerging Topics in Life Sciences;
• Essays in Biochemistry; and
• Neuronal Signaling.

Authors should use their institutional email address and affiliation during the submission process. Please read the publisher's page on this Read and Publish agreement for further details and FAQs.

PLOS titles are all fully open access and the University of Nottingham has signed up to a Flat Fee agreement with this publisher.

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors will be able to publish without having to pay an APC in the following PLOS titles:

• PLOS Complex Systems;
• PLOS Computational Biology;
• PLOS Digital Health;
• PLOS Genetics;
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases;
• PLOS ONE; and
• PLOS Pathogens.

Authors should use their institutional email address and affiliation during the submission process. A PLOS-produced video explains how authors can request APC-free publishing in the journals covered by the agreement.

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors may publish open access in this publisher's three hybrid journals at no cost. The eligible titles are:

• Journal of Cell Biology;
• Journal of Experimental Medicine; and
• Journal of General Physiology. 

Authors should use their institutional email address and validate their institution during the submission process. More details are available in the RUP Author Experience document and on the RUP 'Read-and-Publish' Agreement page. 

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors may publish open access without paying an APC in the following Royal Society titles:

• Philosophical Transactions A;
• Philosophical Transactions B;
• Proceedings A;
• Proceedings B;
• Biology Letters;
• Interface;
• Interface Focus;
• Notes & Records;
• Open Biology; and
• Open Science.

Corresponding authors must list their affiliation and use their institutional email address during submission in order to be identified as eligible for this 'Read and Publish' agreement. For further details, please read the publisher's Read and Publish page. 

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors will be able to publish on an open access basis at no cost in RSC hybrid journals.

This 'Read and Publish' agreement covers all peer-reviewed article types (full papers, communications and reviews). Editorials and Corrections are not covered.

Authors should use their institutional credentials (affiliation, email address) during submission in order to be identified as eligible. Please refer to the author guidelines on the RSC Read and Publish page.

Note: UoN corresponding authors can also receive a partial discount on APCs in fully open access RSC titles. Please see our APC discounts page for further information.

Until 31 December 2025, UoN-affiliated corresponding authors will be able to publish their research and review articles open access at no cost in the The Journal of Neuroscience (JNeurosci).

Authors will need to validate their institutional affiliation in the Society for Neuroscience submission system in order to be identified as eligible. Please see the SfN Read-and-Publish page for further information.  

Until 31 December 2025, corresponding authors affiliated to UoN (UK) may publish open access in Springer, Nature Academic, Nature Research and Palgrave Macmillan hybrid journals without needing to pay APCs.

Lists of eligible titles in the Springer and Nature portfolios are available on the Springer page about the agreement.

The Springer page contains a useful guide on the workflow for authors, and the FAQs section provides details of eligible article types.  

Note: UoN corresponding authors can also receive a partial discount on APCs in fully open access Springer Nature titles (including BioMed Central, SpringerOpen). Please see our APC discounts page for further information. 

From 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2025, and subject to an annual cap, a full APC waiver applies in the following journals or platforms:

• Taylor & Francis open select (hybrid) titles;
• Taylor & Francis fully open access titles;
• F1000 Research; and
• Routledge Open Research.

The corresponding author should be affiliated to the University of Nottingham in the UK (UNUK) and should use their institutional email address during the submission process.

This agreement applies to research articles only. For F1000 Research and Routledge Open Research the following are also covered: method articles, antibody validation articles, reviews, systematic reviews, clinical practice articles, case reports, opinion articles. 

Please read the Taylor & Francis-Jisc open access agreement page for further details.

You can browse through titles in your subject area by visiting the publisher's open access cost finder page: simply select a subject category and click on 'Search'. You can also browse by individual title. 

Until 31 December 2025, a full APC waiver applies to articles accepted in Wiley's hybrid (Wiley Online Open) journals. A full waiver may also be claimed in Wiley and Hindawi fully open access (gold) journals, subject to a cap. 

Corresponding author should be affiliated to the University of Nottingham in the UK (UNUK). 

Wiley's author workflow enables the designation of the Responsible Corresponding Author (RCA) in cases where there is more than one corresponding author. The RCA role will identify the sole author who will be responsible for key post-acceptance actions and whose institutional affiliations will be used to determine eligibility for APC coverage.

The waiver applies to original research and review articles only. 

Please read the Wiley page on the OA agreement with Jisc institutions for full terms and conditions. 

Wiley's Journal Finder tool allows you to search Wiley’s journals by keyword and filter results by topic, subject area, and/or open access status. It also lets you compare up to four journals at a time and view statistics on acceptance rates, etc. 

Until 31 December 2025, a full APC waiver applies to articles accepted in LWW hybrid journals, under the terms of the Wolters Kluwer-Jisc open access agreement. 

The waiver applies to peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews and conference papers. 

The corresponding author should use their institutional affiliation and email address during submission, and agree to the journal’s open access submission question.

Please read Wolters Kluwer's instructions on how to have the APC covered in eligible LWW journals. 

Until 31 December 2025, a full APC waiver applies to research and review articles accepted in World Scientific hybrid journals, under the terms of a direct agreement between the publisher and the University. 

Please note that some journals may impose submission fees, page charges or colour charges for which the authors will be liable.

The corresponding author should use their University of Nottingham affiliation and email address during submission.

Note: UoN corresponding authors can also receive a partial discount on APCs in fully open access World Scientific titles. Please see our APC discounts page for further information.