Please take these agreements into consideration when deciding where to publish.

If your publisher offers free APCs: follow the instructions for your publisher below. You don't need to complete a separate application.

If your publisher offers discounted APCs: you still need to apply to use APC funding.

Caution - be aware that if you are asked to provide a billing address for an open access charge, your article is not being recognised by the publisher as eligible under our agreement. Please liaise with your publisher about this. There are no library or institutional funds to pay for APCs outside of agreements, unless you are UKRI funded.

Article types

Articles, review articles, conference proceedings and case reports are usually covered by these agreements. Book reviews, letters and obituaries are not. The terms used to define publication types differ from publisher to publisher, so check the terms of the agreement outlined by your intended publisher or journal on their sites.  

Jisc's Read and Publish agreement with ACS has expired. Negotiations are ongoing as of March 2025. 

Free APCs

We're participating in JISC’s American Institute of Physics (AIP) Read and Publish agreement 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. 

Journals covered by the agreement

All of AIP’s hybrid journal titles

Journals not covered by the agreement

Gold Open Access journals:

• AIP Advances
• APL Bioengineering
• APL Energy
• APL Electronic Devices
• APL Machine Learning
• APL Materials
• APL Photonics
• APL Quantum
• JASA Express Letters
• Structural Dynamics

What you need to do:

• Follow the instructions on AIP’s author guidelines webpage where you can also view a demonstration of the submission process
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We’re participating in JISC’s American Physical Society Read and Publish agreement from 2023-2025.

More information can be found on the American Physical Society webpage.

This provides unlimited publishing in all 9 hybrid Physical Review journals:

• Physical Review Letters (PRL)
• Physical Review A (PRA)
• Physical Review B (PRB)
• Physical Review C (PRC)
• Physical Review D (PRD)
• Physical Review E (PRE)
• Physical Review Applied (PRApplied)
• Physical Review Fluids (PRFluids)
• Physical Review Materials (PRMaterials)

Gold Open Access journals are not included in the agreement. They are listed on this  Americal Physical Society webpage as ‘non-participating journals’   

What you need to do:

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CCBY licence

 You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in JISC’s American Physiological Society Read and Publish agreement 1st January - 31st December 2025.

This provides unlimited open access for University of Kent corresponding authors publishing in the Society’s hybrid titles. 

Journals covered by the agreement

American Journal of Physiology:

• Cell Physiology
• Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
• Heart and Circulatory Physiology
• Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
• Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology
• Renal Physiology

Also covered:

• Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Genomics, Physiological Reviews, and Physiology

Journals not covered by the agreement

Gold Open Access journals.

  What you need to do:

• Follow the steps outlined in the American Physiological Society’s Submission Information for Authors at Participating Read, Publish & Join Institutions
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible
• use a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in the JISC negotiated ACM Open Journals 2023-2025 agreement.

This provides unlimited open access for University of Kent corresponding authors publishing in all ACM’s journals, magazines and conferences proceedings. 

Journals covered by the agreement

ACM journals, magazines and conference proceedings series. 

The conference proceedings titles are not included in our Read and Publish journal search. 

What you need to do:

From the submission stage onwards

• ensure that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• publish under a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.    

Free APCs

We're participating in JISC’s BUP Journals Collection Read and Publish Agreement 1st January 2025 - 31st December 2026.

Journals covered by the agreement

All Bristol University Press/Policy Press hybrid journal titles. These are detailed in the "Which journals can I publish in?" section at the bottom of BUP read and publish FAQ page.

What you need to do:

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in Jisc’s read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press, for articles accepted for publication between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2025.

Journals covered by the agreement

Hybrid and fully Gold Open Access journal titles. See our Read and Publish Journal Search.

What you need to do:

• Use the How to publish Open Access under this agreement section on CUP’s webpage:
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement.
• use a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free and discounted APCs

We're participating in JISC’s Read and Publish agreement with Elsevier. This provides unlimited open access for University of Kent corresponding authors publishing in most hybrid journals. The deal is in place for articles accepted from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2025. In addition, University of Kent corresponding authors publishing in Elsevier's fully gold open access journals will receive a 15% discount on an APC.

Journals covered by the agreement

Participating hybrid journals, including Cell Press and the Lancet. You can use Elsevier’s checking tool to see which titles are covered. The titles are also listed in our Read and Publish journal search.

• Cell Press: When publishing in eligible hybrid Cell Press journals, review articles and short survey article types are not eligible
• The Lancet: When publishing in eligible journals from The Lancet, full length articles are the only eligible article type.

Journals not covered by the agreement

APCs for articles in Elsevier’s Gold Open Access journals aren't covered, but a 15% discount is available. If you want to publish in these journals you'll need to apply for APC funding.

What you need to do:

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement.
• use a CCBY licence
• Follow the instructions on Elsevier’s page

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Emerald does not operate under a Read and Publish agreement model.

Instead, Emerald’s Green Open Access policy allows you to make your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) openly and immediately available in KAR with no embargo from the date of first online publication.

Journals not covered by the agreement 

Gold Open Access journals require payment of an APC. If you wish to publish in these journals you will need to apply for APC funding.

What you need to do: 

• Insert this text into your AAM:
  “This author accepted manuscript is deposited under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) licence. This means that anyone may distribute, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, subject to full attribution. If you wish to use this manuscript for commercial purposes, please contact permissions@emerald.com."
• Use the REF Assisted Deposit Service to send us your AAM
• Keep the AAM under embargo with access restricted until first official online publication on Emerald’s site 
• Use a CC BY NC licence

A full Read and Publish agreement with IEEE does not exist. Instead there is a IEEE IEL Read - only plus green open access arrangement 2025-2027.

Authors can immediately self archive in KAR their Author Accepted Manuscripts (not Version of Record) submitted to any subscription-based IEEE journal, magazine, or conference proceeding.

A CC BY licence can be applied. 

Free APCs

We're participating in the IoP agreement 2024-2025 under which you can publish Open Access in 55 IOP hybrid journals and 21 fully open access journals without needing to acquire separate funding.

Journals covered by the agreement 

Journals in List A, B, C and D on IoP’s list of eligible journals webpage.

What you need to do: 

• follow IOP's Guide to submitting under a transformative agreement
• confirm that you're the corresponding author 
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent 
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement 
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in JISC’s Optica Publishing Group Read and Publish agreement 1 January 2025-31 December 2026.

Journals covered by the agreement

This agreement applies to the following journals: 

• Advances in Optics and Photonics
• Applied Optics
• Biomedical Optics Express
• Journal of the Optical Society of America A
• Journal of the Optical Society of America B
• Optica
• Optical Materials Express
• Optics Continuum
• Optics Express
• Optics Letters
• Optica Quantum

What you need to do

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in Jisc’s read and publish agreement with Oxford University Press for 2024-2025.

Journals covered by the agreement

See our Read and Publish Journal Search.

What you need to do:

• follow the instructions in OUP’s Step by Step Guide
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement.
• use a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're participating in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Read and Publish scheme 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2025.

Journals covered by the agreement

All RSC's hybrid journals

Journals not covered by the agreement

RSC's Gold journals  journals will receive a 15% discount on an APC.

What you need to do:

• follow the “When you are ready to publish "How to publish open access at RSC"
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CCBY licence
  

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free and discounted APCs

We're participating in JISC’s Read and Publish agreement with Sage 2023-25.

Journals covered by the agreement

If you're a Kent corresponding author and your article is accepted by a journal in one of the collections below, it will be Open Access without you needing to acquire separate funding:

• current SAGE Premier package
• IMechE Journal Collection 
• Royal Society of Medicine Collection

Journals not covered by the agreement

APCs for articles in Sages’ Pure Gold Open Access journals aren't covered, but a 20% discount is available. If you wish to publish in these journals you'll need to apply for APC funding.

What you need to do:

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible
• use a CCBY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We are participating in the Springer Nature Read and Publish agreement 2023-2025. This brings together Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Nature Research journals into one Read and Publish agreement.

Journals covered by the agreement

If you're a University of Kent corresponding author publishing in one of the Springer hybrid journals, your article will be published Open Access by default.

Journals not covered by the agreement

APCs for articles in any Springer, Nature or BioMed Central Gold Open Access journals. If you wish to publish in these journals you will need to apply for APC funding.

What you need to do:

• see this information for authors and FAQs
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're taking part in the Taylor & Francis JISC Read and Publish Agreement 2024-2025.
A UK-wide cap of 7,700 articles in Taylor & Francis journals has been set for the sector per year.

Journals covered by the agreement

All hybrid journals, all fully OA journals, F1000 and Routledge Open Research.

The following link shows which titles you can publish in, just use the filter to exclude Dove Medical titles (which aren't technically "T&F," hence they are excluded):

Open access cost finder - Author Services (taylorandfrancis.com)

Or use our Read and Publish journal search.

Journals not covered by the agreement

Dove Medical titles.

What you need to do:

• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Free APCs

We're taking part in Wiley’s JISC agreement 2024-2025. 

Journals covered by the agreement

• Wiley’s fully Gold Open Access journals (xlsx)
• Wiley’s hybrid journals

What you need to do

• Follow the instructions from Wiley for:
• publishing your article in a fully Gold Open Access journal (pdf)
• or making your article Open Access in a Hybrid journal
• confirm that you're the corresponding author
• Please note: Wiley now require you to allocate one Responsible Corresponding Author (RCA) at submission stage. This role will be used to determine eligibility for the Read and Publication agreement and cannot be altered
• confirm that you're affiliated with the University of Kent
• use your Kent email address (not your private email address) to be identified as eligible under the agreement
• use a CC-BY licence

You don't need to make a separate application to use APC funds.

Need research support or advice? Email researchsupport@kent.ac.uk

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