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 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). This policy has been amended to include staff on all current Aston contracts effective from 1st April 2025.
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 OA Journals Included? | New UKRI OA Policy Compliant Deal? | Publisher Website | Notes | ||
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACM Publications List | Incl. conference proceedings | ||
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACS Deal Information | |||
| American Institute of Physics (AIP) | Yes | No | Yes | AIP Journal Deal Info | Consortium cap. Overlength JASA articles are charged $80 pp | ||
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American Psychological Association (APA) |
Yes | No | Yes | APA Journal list | Excl. Hogrefe journals, consortium cap | ||
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | CUP / Cambridge Core Journal Eligibility Checker | |||
| 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 | Select CC BY license even though Elsevier labels it 'commercial' | ||
| Institute of Physics (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 | |||
| Microbiology Society | Yes | Yes | Yes | Microbiology Society Journal List | |||
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | OUP Deal Info | |||
| Public Library of Science (PLOS) | N/A | Yes | Yes | PLOS Deal Info | |||
| Portland Press | Yes | Yes | Yes | Portland Press Deal Information | |||
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Royal Society of Chemistry (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 | Society for Neurosci Info | Journal of Neuroscience (only) | ||
| SPIE (formerly Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) | Yes | Yes | No | SPIE Journal List | |||
| Springer | Yes | No, 15% Discount | Yes | Springer Journal Lists | |||
| Springer: Nature portfolio |
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No, 15% Discount | Yes | Springer Journal Lists | Consortium cap (Nature portfolio) | ||
| Taylor & Francis | Yes | Yes | Yes | T & F Deal Info | F1000 Research incl.; Consortium cap; APC cap over £3000 | ||
| Wiley (incl. 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 2025. 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.