Introduction to publisher Open Access agreements

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As part of our long-term commitment to Open Access publishing, the Library has signed up to a large number of Open Access agreements with academic publishers. These agreements allow papers to be published Gold Open Access at no cost to the author.

Publishers may refer to Open Access agreements in several ways, for example, ‘transformative agreement’, ‘transitional agreement’, ‘read and publish deal’, or ‘Jisc agreement’.

Please note that the corresponding author on your paper must have a University of Manchester affiliation to access any of our agreements. The author submitting the paper should also use their university email address.

Gold Open Access funding is no longer available for hybrid (subscription-based) journals outside of these agreements.

Find information about all of our active Open Access agreements below. You can also search for individual journals using the new Open Access Journals Guide. We're trialling the guide until the end of July 2025, during which time we’ll assess its utility and benefits for Manchester researchers to determine if we can provide this resource long-term. This means we need to hear from you – please let us know if you find it helpful by completing this one-minute feedback form.