Library Help: Office For Open Research

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:

Open Access agreements (A-Z)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

American Meteorological Society

American Physical Society

Annual Reviews

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Berghahn

BMJ (no agreement in place - please read)

Brill

Bristol University Press and Policy Press

Cambridge University Press

Company of Biologists

De Gruyter

Elsevier

Frontiers (no agreement in place – please read) 

Geological Society of London

IEEE (no agreement in place – please read)

Institute of Physics

Karger

MDPI (no agreement in place - please read)

Microbiology Society

Optica

Oxford University Press

Portland Press

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Rockefeller University Press

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Sage

Springer Nature

Taylor & Francis

The Royal Society

Wiley

Wolters Kluwer (no agreement in place - please read)

Further support

Need any help? You can find more articles about other Open Access-related topics or get in touch with the team.