Queen Mary University of London has signed up to a number of agreements with publishers to pay costs and streamline the process of open access publishing. Publishing under some of these agreements is dependent on your research funder while others will cover the costs for any Queen Mary authors.
To qualify for the publisher agreements you must be the corresponding author and identify yourself as being affiliated with Queen Mary University of London, failure to do so could mean your article is not eligible for publication with the agreement.
Details below provide more information on the agreements we have and how to access them. We have not signed up to every publisher agreement and in some cases publishers have not offered a publishing agreement. Where this is the case we have provided information on other publishing options for the more prominent academic publishers.
You can also find on this page some alternative routes to open access publishing.
If you would like us to add information about a publisher or you would like to recommend a publisher agreement not listed, please contact Open Research Services.
Not all publisher policies will be in line with your research funder's policy on open access, please see our information on Open access and your funder.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the American Chemical Society that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
When submitting a paper to the American Chemical Society you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement.
If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
If you are looking to publish with this publisher and want to make your paper open access please fill in our Open Access Request Form prior to submitting your paper to ensure you are eligible for support with the open access fees.
For more information about applying for funding please see our Apply for funding to pay Open Access Fees page.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the American Physical Society (APS) that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
The agreement covers the following titles: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)
When submitting a paper to any of these titles you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
The American Physical Society's fully Open Access titles are not covered by this agreement:
PRX QuantumPhysical Review XPhysical Review Physics Education ResearchPhysical Review ResearchPhysical Review Accelerators and BeamsPhysical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and BeamsPhysical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Support to cover open access fees in APS publications is currently only available for research acknowledging the following research funding organisations:
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEconomic and Social Research CouncilInnovate UKMedical Research CouncilNatural Environment Research CouncilResearch EnglandScience and Technology Facilities Council
British Heart FoundationCancer Research UKWellcome Trust
It you have any questions about publishing please contact Open Research Services
Queen Mary University does not currently have a publishing agreement with ACM.
ACM does offer a paid open access route and a self archiving route that is compliant with most research funder policies.More details can be found on the ACM open access pages. ACM titles are considered to be Transformative Journals.
The Library is able to support payment of open access fees for accepted articles acknowledging funding from:
If you are looking to publish with this publisher and want to make your paper open access please contact Open Research Services prior to submitting your paper to ensure you are eligible for support with the open access fees.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Bioscientifica that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
Participating Bioscientifica journals are: Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine-Related Cancer, European Journal of Endocrinology, Reproduction.
When submitting a paper to Bioscientifica you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with BMJ Publishing.
This agreement covers accepted papers in hybrid journal and fully open access titles that are funded by the following research funding organisations:
When submitting a paper to BMJ Publishing you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
A full list of journals included in the deal can be found here (scroll down to 'Find out if you are entitled to institutional funding' and select Queen Mary University of London from the list of institutions. On the right you will see 'The journals that you can publish in' - use the down arrow to see the list of included journals).
Please also see the list of eligible article types for the agreement.
If you are looking to publish with this publisher and want to make your paper open access please fill in our Open Access Fees Request Form prior to submitting your paper to ensure you are eligible for support with the open access fees.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Cambridge University Press that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
You should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement.
If eligible the publisher will approve the request.
Check eligible title list.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Elsevier Publishing.
This agreement covers eligible article types in hybrid journal titles. To check if your chosen journal is part of the agreement follow this link to the Elsevier Participating Journals page.
When submitting a paper to Elsevier Publishing you must use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
If you are publishing in a fully open access Elsevier Journal you can apply to have the open access fees paid if funded by the following research funding organisations:
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the European Respiratory Society that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
European Respiratory Society journals are: ERJ Open Research, European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review.
When submitting a paper to the European Respiratory Society you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
Frontiers is an open access publisher. Publishing fees are required for all accepted articles.
The Library's current agreement with this publisher extends only to accepted articles acknowledging funding from:
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) do not currently offer a publishing agreement that is compliant with the majority of UK Research Funding organisations.
Support to cover open access fees in IEEE publications is currently only available for fully open access IEEE titles (see list below) and if funded by the following research funding organisations:
List of fully open access IEEE titles in the Directory of Open Access Journals(list updated 1/4/2022).
IEEE AccessIEEE Journal of MicrowavesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingIEEE Journal of the Electron Devices SocietyIEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineIEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and CircuitsIEEE JTEHMIEEE OJIESIEEE Open Access Journal of Power and EnergyIEEE Open Journal of Antennas and PropagationIEEE Open Journal of Circuits and SystemsIEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and BiologyIEEE Open Journal of Industry ApplicationsIEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsIEEE Open Journal of NanotechnologyIEEE Open Journal of Power ElectronicsIEEE Open Journal of Signal ProcessingIEEE Open Journal of the Communications SocietyIEEE Open Journal of the Computer SocietyIEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics SocietyIEEE Open Journal of Vehicular TechnologyIEEE Photonics JournalIEEE Transactions on Quantum EngineeringJournal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
If you are looking to publish with IEEE and want to make your paper open access please contact Open Research Services prior to submitting your paper to ensure you are eligible for support with the open access fees.
IEEE Update 20/5/2022IEEE have updated their policy for authors following the self-archiving route to open access publishing to meet the requirements of research funders. Full details can be found on IEEE's website.
The advice given for authors who are required to comply with their research funders open access policy is as follows:
Route 2 Option: Publishing via a subscription based journal or conference
UKRI-funded authors are now also able to publish articles via Open Access in any of the subscription based IEEE journals, magazines, or conferences published in compliance with the UKRI “Route 2” option. Under this option:
To make the CC BY licence available as quickly as possible under the Route 2 option, IEEE has implemented a manual fulfillment process for researchers with UKRI funding or from funders with similar mandates. To begin the process, authors who need a CC BY licence for an accepted manuscript should send a request to IEEE’s Intellectual Property Rights group at copyrights@ieee.org as soon as they submit their article. To further meet the Route 2 requirements and ensure compliance, the submissions should include the following text in the funding acknowledgement section of the manuscript and any cover note accompanying the submission:
“For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to any Accepted Manuscript version arising.”
If you have any questions relating to publishing with IEEE please contact Open Research Services prior to submitting your paper to ensure you are eligible for support with the open access fees or can achieve compliance with your research funder.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Hindawi Publishing.
Only original research and review articles are eligible under this agreement.
Our Hindawi Publishing agreement is managed by Wiley, please see the Wiley Publishing (Transitional Agreement) tab for more details.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with IOP.
This agreement covers any accepted papers published in eligible IOP titles (see below to check if your title is listed):
Title List A: Hybrid Titles
2D MaterialsBioinspiration & BiomimeticsBiofabricationBiomedical MaterialsBiomedical Physics & Engineering ExpressClassical and Quantum GravityEuropean Journal of PhysicsEngineering Research ExpressElectronic StructureFlexible and Printed ElectronicsInverse ProblemsJournal of Breath ResearchJournal of Micromechanics and MicroengineeringJournal of Neural EngineeringJournal of OpticsJournal of Physics: Condensed MatterJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and TheoreticalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical PhysicsJournal of Physics D: Applied PhysicsJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle PhysicsJournal of Radiological ProtectionMethods and Applications in FluorescenceMetrologiaMultifunctional MaterialsModelling and Simulation in Materials Science and EngineeringMeasurement Science and TechnologyNanotechnologyNano FuturesNonlinearityPhysical BiologyPhysics EducationPhysics in Medicine & BiologyPhysiological MeasurementPlasma Physics and Controlled FusionPlasma Research ExpressProgress in Biomedical EngineeringProgress in EnergyPhysica ScriptaPlasma Sources Science and TechnologyQuantum Science & TechnologySmart Materials and StructuresSemiconductor Science and TechnologySurface Topography: Metrology and PropertiesSuperconductor Science and Technology
Title List B: Society journals
Applied Physics Express*EPLFluid Dynamics ResearchFunctional Composites and StructuresJapanese Journal of Applied Physics*Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsJournal of InstrumentationJournal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and ExperimentLaser PhysicsLaser Physics LettersNuclear Fusion*Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
*these titles may also apply additional page and other publishing charges that cannot be covered by the library’s open access funding.
Title List D: Open access journals
Environmental Research CommunicationsEnvironmental Research: ClimateEnvironmental Research: EcologyEnvironmental Research: HealthEnvironmental Research: Infrastructure and SustainabilityEnvironmental Research LettersIOP SciNotesJournal of Physics CommunicationsJournal of Physics: ComplexityJournal of Physics: EnergyJournal of Physics: MaterialsJournal of Physics: PhotonicsMachine Learning: Science and TechnologyMaterials for Quantum TechnologyMaterials Research ExpressNano ExpressNeuromorphic Computing and EngineeringNew Journal of Physics
When submitting a paper to IOP you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Microbiology Society.
This agreement covers any accepted papers published in eligible Microbiology Society titles (see below to check if your title is listed):
Journal TitleInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary MicrobiologyJournal of General VirologyJournal of Medical Microbiology Microbiology Microbial Genomics Access Microbiology
When submitting a paper to the Microbiology Society you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
Queen Mary University does not currently have a publishing agreement with Nature Publishing.
Nature Publishing does offer a paid open access route and a self archiving route that is compliant with most research funder policies. Nature Publishing Research Journals are now considered to be Transformative Journals. Please check the list of Transformative Journals to ensure your journal is listed.
If your journal is listed the Library is able to support payment of open access fees for accepted articles acknowledging funding from:
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Oxford University Press that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
When submitting a paper to Oxford University Press your article should be listed as either:
List of eligible titles.
The Library currently has a open access publishing agreement with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
The agreement covers the following titles:PLOS ONE PLOS GeneticsPLOS PathogensPLOS Computational BiologyPLOS Neglected Tropical DiseasesPLOS Digital HealthPLOS Complex
When submitting a paper to PLoS you must use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Royal College of General Practitioners that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
Journal titles covered by the agreement:
When submitting a paper to the Royal College of General Practitioners you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry.
This agreement covers all accepted papers in hybrid journal titles.
When submitting a paper to Royal Society of Chemistry you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
If you are publishing in a fully open access Royal Society of Chemistry Journal you can apply to have the open access fees paid if funded by the following research funding organisations:
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with the Royal Society that entitles articles submitted by all Queen Mary correspondence authors, irrespective of funding, to be published open access.
When submitting a paper to the Royal Society you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Sage Publishing.
When submitting a paper to Sage Publishing you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
If you are publishing in a fully open access Sage Journal you can apply to have the open access fees paid if funded by the following research funding organisations:
The Library currently has an open access publishing agreement with SCOAP3 that automatically makes articles on high energy physics submitted to the journals listed below, open access; irrespective of research funding.
There are two routes to publishing under the SCOAP3 agreement:
Acta Physica Polonica BAdvances in High Energy PhysicsChinese Physics CPhysical Review C Physical Review D Physical Review LettersProgress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
For journals only partially covered, authors are required to submit their articles to arXiv.org with a primary category in high-energy physics, Experiment (hep-ex), Lattice (hep-lat), Phenomenology (hep-ph), or Theory (hep-th) ahead of the journal publication to be considered eligible for SCOAP3.
The European Physical Journal C The Journal of High Energy PhysicsNuclear Physics BPhysics Letters B
For these journals, all articles are automatically published Open Access independent of the scientific field. The library is not required to approve articles for publication.
Articles published open access via the SCOAP3 agreement are considered to have met the open access policy requirements of the UKRI, Wellcome, NIHR, Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation.
For more information about publishing via the SCOAP3 agreement please contact Open Research Services
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Springer Nature Publishing.
This agreement covers the following eligible article types: Original paper, Review paper, Brief communication or Continuing education in hybrid journal titles across Springer and Nature titles. Here is a link to the list of Springer titles covered by the agreement Here is a link to the list of Nature titles covered by the agreement
When submitting a paper to Springer Nature you must use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
If you are publishing in a fully open access Springer Nature Journal you can apply to have the open access fees paid if funded by the following research funding organisations:
Here is a link to the list of fully open access Springer Nature titles.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Taylor & Francis Publishing.
Your article will need to be an original research article. Other types of paper, such as Editorials, Announcements, and Book Reviews, are not covered by the agreement.
A full list of the titles covered by this agreement can be seen on the Taylor & Francis Open Select page.
When submitting a paper to Taylor & Francis you must use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
Taylor & Francis also publish a number of Society publications. These societies often charge additional publication fees that the library cannot pay for and will need to be met by you even if the open access fees are covered by our agreement.
The Library currently has a Transitional open access publishing agreement with Wiley Publishing.
When submitting a paper to Wiley Publishing you should use your university email address and list Queen Mary University of London as your affiliated institution. The corresponding author on the paper must be currently affiliated to Queen Mary University of London to publish with this agreement. If eligible the publisher will contact the Library for open access approval.
Wiley also publish a number of Society publications. These societies often charge additional publication fees that the library cannot pay for and will need to be met by you even if the open access fees are covered by our agreement.