Publisher Agreements and Memberships

Type of deal: Read and Publish uncapped– articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: All ACS journals, including both hybrid and fully open access journals

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address, list University of Liverpool as your affiliation, and select the open access option.

Type of deal: Read and Publish capped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: All AIP subscriptions journals (AIP’s fully gold open access journals still require individual payment - please fill in a request form before submitting to a fully open access AIP journal)

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address,  list University of Liverpool as your affiliation, and select the open access option.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: All AMS journals, including the Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS).

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation. More information at the AMS Author Information hub.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: All APS journals

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included 87 APA journals and 15 Hogrefe journals): .

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish uncapped: articles and conference proceedings with a Liverpool corresponding author can be published Open Access at no additional cost to authors.

Journals included: The full portfolio of ACM journals and conference proceedings.

Instructions for authors: Ensure you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation. When given the choice of Creative Commons licence, you must select “Creative Commons – Attribution”.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: To check if a specific journal is covered by this agreement, search for it in our database of read and publish journals.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: Bioscientifica’s four hybrid journals: Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrine-Related Cancer, and Reproduction.

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish for funded articles; funded articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost (see "Instructions for authors" on what constitutes a "funded article).

Journals included: Covers hybrid journal and only for those "funded" authors (see below).

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation. Only research articles that acknowledge funding from the UKRI Research Councils, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Parkinson’s UK, Cancer Research UK, Innovate UK and Versus Arthritis are eligible. 

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped - articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: All hybrid and fully gold journals published by Brill.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: Most CUP journals are included. A full list is available on the CUP website.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, Learning and Memory

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access.

Journals included: All Company of Biologists journals are included.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made open access at no further cost.

Journals include: most Elsevier hybrid journals, including those published by the Lancet and Cell Press (note however, that review articles are exempt from the deal in some Lancet and Cell Press titles) This agreement covers hybrid journals only. It does not include fully open access journals. For fully open access journals, you need to complete a request form before you submit to the journal. To check if a specific journal is covered by this agreement, search for it in our database of publisher agreements.

Instructions for authors: ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and enter University of Liverpool as your affiliation. You are also required to enter the name of your funder(s) or specifically note there was no external funding.

When presented with the choice of licence, you must select “CC-BY”; if you select any other licence we will not be able to approve the publication and you will become liable for paying for open access.

Note that this deal also provides authors with a 15% discount on articles in Elsevier’s fully gold open access journals. For these journals you must complete a Gold open access payment request before submitting to the journal.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access.

Journals included: European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review, ERJ Open Research.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Check our database of publisher agreements to see if your journal is covered.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped: articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: All current Geological Society journals.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: All IOP hybrid journals and most IOP fully open access journals are included. Check if a specific journal is covered by this agreement, search for it in our database of read and publish journals. If the journal is open access and not included in the database you must complete a gold open access request form before submission.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped: articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: The full portfolio of John Benjamins journals.

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: All Microbiology Society journals are included.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Capped; Research articles and review articles with an eligible Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: 400+ Hybrid and Fully Open Access journals.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation. You must choose the option “UK Institution (JISC Affiliated)” when completing the payment process.

Full details of the agreement can be found on the OUP webpages.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology and PLOS Sustainability and Transformations, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, PLOS Digital Health, and PLOS Complex Systems:.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Instructions for authors: Unfortunately, the publisher has not extended this agreement beyond 2023. If you are planning on publishing with this journal contact openaccess@liverpool.ac.uk prior to submitting to the journal to discuss your options.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: All Portland Press journals are included.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Radiology is the sole journal covered by this agreement.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Royal Society's full journal package, which includes 8 hybrid journals and 2 open access journals.

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish capped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: hybrid journals only (RSC's fully gold open access journals still require individual payment - please fill in a request form before submitting to a fully open access RSC journal). To check if a specific journal is included in the agreement, check our database of publisher agreeements. 

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address,  list University of Liverpool as your affiliation, and select the open access option.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Uncapped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Includes SAGE hybrid journals only, it does not include fully open access journals.  To check if a specific journal is included in this agreeement, search our database of publisher agreements. For fully open access journals, you must complete a request form before you submit to the journal. We receive a 20% discount on fully open access publication costs. 

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation. If prompted, please ensure you select the CC-BY licence. We cannot fund more restrictive licences such as CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-ND.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Biomed Central journals are not included. Most Springer Nature hybrid journals are included, including those in the Springer, Nature, and Palgrave Macmillan portfolios.

Fully open access journals are not included. Check our database of publisher agreements to check if your journal is covered. Please complete a request form before submission to a fully open access journal.

Certain journals, such as Nature Communications and Scientific Reports and others, are not included in the agreement. The agreement does not include Biomed Central titles, for which you must complete a request form before submitting to your journal.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Capped; research and review articles with a Liverpool corresponding author will be published Open Access at no additional cost.

Journals included: Open Select journals; more information about eligible journals can be found on the Taylor and Francis website.

Instructions for authors: Ensure that you use your University of Liverpool email address and list University of Liverpool as your affiliation. If offered a choice of creative commons licence you must choose CC-BY not CC-BY-NC-ND.

Type of deal: Read and Publish Capped; articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Journals included: Most Wiley published hybrid and fully gold journals. A full list is available on Wiley’s website.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation. You must be the Responsible Corresponding Author in Wiley's system for your article to be eligible. If prompted, please ensure you select the CC-BY licence. We cannot fund more restrictive licences such as CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-ND. A video explaining how to do this is available. Please note that a small number of journals still carry page and colour charges for publishing.

Type of deal: Articles with a Liverpool corresponding author can be made Open Access.

Instructions for authors: Use your University of Liverpool email address and ensure the University of Liverpool is your institutional affiliation.