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 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 should use your Aston affiliation and email address and check that the journal is eligible for the publisher's free gold open access deal. You must select a CC BY licence when offered a choice by the publishers. 

• Eligibility is determined by corresponding author only- be sure to use your Aston email and affiliation! This is checked against the current HR staff list and student records.
• If a publisher is not included on the list below, it means that we do not have a deal with them and any open access costs incurred will need to be met through your PASA or another funding source. If you are a UKRI grant holder, please email openaccess@aston.ac.uk to discuss APC payment options. 
• Additional charges such as submission fees, excess page and colour charges are not included in these deals or by UKRI OA funding and will need to be covered by the author(s).

Contact openaccess@aston.ac.uk for further details on any of these schemes or author/article type/journal eligibility.

Wiley offers a 25% discount to Aston University corresponding authors after the yearly consortium cap has been reached. Aston authors who wish to use this discount when paying for gold open access themselves should contact openaccess@aston.ac.uk