Research & Scholarly Publications Team: Open Access Funding

What is included?

A number of BMJ’s fully open access and hybrid journal titles are covered by our agreement with BMJ, including ‘The BMJ’.

Scope

Only original research articles are covered under the agreement.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must use their Coventry University email address during the submission process.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible. However, some BMJ journals only offer a CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Non-Commercial) licence, unless the research acknowledges specific research funding.

More information about the agreement, including a full list of the journals covered (select “Coventry University” from the drop-down list at the bottom of the page), is available here

What is included?

There are many Open Access and Hybrid journal titles covered by the agreement.

Scope

Only research articles, review articles, brief reports and case reports are covered under the agreement.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must use their Coventry University email address during the submission process.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible.

More information about the agreement, including a full list of the journals covered is available here

What is included?

The vast majority of Elsevier's hybrid journals, including Lancet and some Cell Press titles, are covered under the agreement, although their Open Access journals are not.

For Cell Press journals review articles and short survey articles are NOT covered. For publications in The Lancet, ONLY full length articles are covered by the agreement.

Scope

The following types of article are covered in most journals: Case report, Data in Brief, Full-length article, Mico-article, Original software publication, Practice guidelines, Protocols, Review articles, Replication study, Short communication, Short survey and Video article.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Coventry University. At acceptance, the corresponding author should select the option to publish the research Open Access free of charge. If an author mistakenly selects the 'subscription' access option, then this can be changed by logging into the Elsevier author system and amending the 'Publishing Options' field.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible.

Further Information

A small number of Elsevier journals operating in the Business and Finance disciplines charge authors 'submission fees' for each article submitted. These costs are not covered under the agreement.

A full list of the journals covered, is available here

What is included?

A number of Sage's hybrid journals are covered under the agreement, although their Open Access journals are not.

Articles published in Sage's fully open access journals will still incur an Article Processing Charge, on which we are eligible to receive a 20% discount on the full price rate.

Scope

Some article types, such as book reviews and commercially sponsored articles, fall outside the scope of this agreement.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Coventry University. The corresponding author will be emailed directly with a link to make the article open access, with a set time limit of 2 weeks for a response. After this time a £400 charge (+ VAT) is levied that we will not cover. If authors miss this opportunity, the article can be published on a subscription model, and OA requirements can be met through the Green OA Route.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible.

More information about the agreement is available here and here

What is included?

All of Taylor & Francis's 'Open Select' hybrid journals are covered by the agreement. Their fully open access journals and titles in the Cogent OA or Dove Medical Press portfolios are not covered.

Scope

Only certain types of article are eligible, broadly speaking these would fall under the definitions of a primary research or review article. Other types of article such as editorials, announcements and book reviews are not covered under the agreement.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Coventry University.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible.

Further Information

There is a finite open access fund shared by participating members of the consortia, which means there is a possibility that further restrictions around eligibility may be introduced toward the end of the calendar year if the fund is close to getting fully spent.

More information about the agreement, including a full list of the journals covered, is available here and here.

What is included?

The Wiley agreement covers Wiley's fully open access and 'hybrid' journals as well as Hindawi's fully open access journals; this includes the 40 journals published by the The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Scope

Only primary research and review articles qualify for approval under the agreement.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Coventry University. For publications in Hybrid journals, the corresponding author should select the ‘online open’ option on submission.

Licences

If provided with the option, we would ask that authors select a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence where possible. Some journals published on behalf of academic societies may not permit this license, at which point we recommend the Creative Commons licence which permits the greatest extent of re-use.

Further Information

A small number of Wiley journals operating in the Business and Finance disciplines charge authors 'submission fees' for each article submitted. These costs are not covered under the agreement.

There is a finite open access fund shared by participating members of the consortia, which means there is a possibility that further restrictions around eligibility may be introduced toward the end of the calendar year if the fund is close to getting fully spent.

More information about the agreement, is available here

Read and Publish Agreements - FAQs

How is eligibility assessed where there is more than one corresponding author? 

Publishers will be assigning one ‘responsible corresponding author’ (terminology used by Wiley) to each paper, this will normally be the author on the paper who serves as the point of contact with the journal for any administrative queries. The organisational affiliation of the ‘responsible corresponding author’ will determines whether the article is covered under an institution’s Read & Publish agreements. 

Will these agreements impact on who gets chosen as corresponding author? 

It is expected that authors will apply the norms and conventions within their discipline when selecting a corresponding author, and will largely base this decision upon the author’s academic contribution to the work. 

JISC’s guidance around Read & Publish agreements does acknowledge that the selection of corresponding authors based on institutional affiliation is likely to be a consideration. This does bring with it the small risk of authors ‘assuming the role of CA either duplicitously or as a result of coercion’, or undeservedly based on the advantages of their institutional affiliation rather than their contribution to the research.  

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) offers some useful guidance and resources in this area. 

Can I amend the Creative Commons licence after publication? 

It is generally possible for authors to go from a more restrictive licence, such as a CC BY-NC-ND licence, to a less restrictive licence, such as a CC BY licence. Both Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have mechanisms in place to facilitate this. 

However, it is not possible to go from a less restrictive licence to a more restrictive licence. Creative Commons licences are irrevocable, so if the article has been published under a CC BY licence then users can still re-use and share the content in accordance with this licence. 

I accidentally selected the non-Open Access / subscription access route. Is there a way to change my publication choice? 

Please contact our team at: oa.lib@coventry.ac.uk and we will seek to advise you. Under some of the agreements it may be possible for this to be changed but this will need to be looked at one a case-by-case basis.

I am looking to publish in a Wiley or Taylor & Francis journal and am concerned about the deal being ‘capped’ – how will I know if my article can be made Open Access under the agreement? 

For authors publishing in a Wiley or IET fully open access journal, the associated Open Access costs get ring-fenced at point of submission - so the author can be assured that the Open Access costs have been accounted for in advance. If the article does not end up proceeding to publication then the costs get released back to the consortia to be assigned to another article. This arrangement should help ensure that authors are not met with unexpected costs once their article has been accepted. 

If an author is publishing in a ‘hybrid’ journal (a journal which publishes a mixture of open access and subscription access article content) then it is not possible to confirm whether the article can be covered under the agreement until the stage it has been accepted for publication. 

If the consortia ‘cap’ has been reached, or is close to being reached, and as a result an article cannot be approved for Open Access under the agreement, then the author will still be able to publish under the ‘subscription access’ route. Open Access to the work can then be provided by the 'Green' Open Access route by the accepted manuscript being archived on Pure.   

If restrictions are introduced, then articles that acknowledge financial support from a UK Research Council, Wellcome Trust and a handful of medical funders which were members of the COAF scheme, should still be eligible to be approved for Open Access under the terms of the agreement.

Do I still need to add my article to Pure? 

Yes. We would ask that authors still remember to add a record for the publication on to the Pure system.