If you are looking for Aston University's general open access and open research guidance, it is now located at the Library Service webpages: https://www.aston.ac.uk/library/open-research.
As part of our transformative/ read and publish deals with a range of publishers, Aston corresponding authors with current employment contracts or who are current students have access to a range of free or reduced Article Processing Charges (APCs) for original research and review articles (invited reviews, editorials, book reviews etc. are not included). Emeritus, honorary and visiting academics are not eligible for these deals.
You must select a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY licence when offered a choice by the publishers (not CC BY-NC-ND or any other CC license) or your request will not be approved. You should use your Aston affiliation and email address and check that the journal is eligible for the publisher's free gold open access deal.
Contact openaccess@aston.ac.uk for further details on any of these schemes or author/article type/journal eligibility.
Discounts:
Aston authors who wish to use either of these discounts when paying for gold open access themselves should contact openaccess@aston.ac.uk
Publisher | Hybrid Journals Included | Pure Gold Journals Included? | New UKRI OA Policy Compliant Deal? | Publisher Website | Notes | ||
ACM | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACM Publications List | Incl. conference proceedings | ||
ACS | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACS Deal Information | |||
AIP | Yes | No | Yes | AIP Journal Deal Info | Consortium cap. Overlength JASA articles are charged $80 pp | ||
APA | Yes | No | Yes | APA Journal List | Excl. Hogrefe journals, consortium cap | ||
CUP | Yes | Yes | Yes | CUP Journal List | |||
De Gruyter | Yes | Yes | Yes | De Gruyter Journal List | Includes gold journals from Jan 2024 | ||
Elsevier (incl. Cell & Lancet titles) | Yes | No, 15% Discount | Yes | Elsevier Deal Information | |||
IoP | Yes | Yes | Yes | IoP Journal List | Excl. The Planetary Science Journal | ||
John Benjamins | Yes | Yes | Yes | JB Journal List | |||
Karger | Yes | Yes | Yes | Karger Deal Information | |||
OUP | Yes | Yes | Yes | OUP Deal Info | |||
PLOS Complex Systems | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS Computational Biology | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS Digital Health | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS Genetics | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS One | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
PLOS Pathogens | N/A | Yes | Yes | Journal Info | |||
Microbiology Society | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microbiology Society Journal List | |||
Portland Press | Yes | Yes | Yes | Portland Press Deal Information | |||
RSC | Yes | No, 15% Discount | Yes | RSC Journal List | Consortium cap | ||
Sage | Yes | No, 20% Discount | Yes | SAGE Deal Information | |||
Society for Neuroscience | Yes | No | Yes | J Neurosci Info | Journal of Neuroscience (only) | ||
SPIE | Yes | Yes | No | SPIE Journal List | |||
Springer | Yes | No | Yes | Springer Journal Lists | |||
Springer: Nature portfolio |
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No | Yes | Springer Journal Lists | Consortium cap (Nature portfolio) | ||
Taylor & Francis | Yes | No | Yes | T & F Deal Info | Consortium cap, articles with APCs over £3000 capped | ||
Wiley (incl. Hindawi & IET journals) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Wiley Deal Info |
The Excel Spreadsheet below contains a searchable list of the 11,000+ journals that Aston corresponding authors are entitled to free gold open access with from 1 January 2024. Note that some Read & Publish deals have yearly caps, and the allocation may run out before the end of the calendar year. Publishers may also add or remove titles without prior notice. Please email openaccess@aston.ac.uk if you are unsure if your article is eligible or not.