Institutional open access agreements

Included: All ACS Journals (includes ACS Omega, JACS Au, the ACS Au Collection and all ACS hybrid titles).

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: All ACM titles in the ACM digital library.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Original research articles reporting on primary research and funded by UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Blood Cancer UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Innovate UK, Parkinson’s or Versus Arthritis UK in BMJ’s hybrid journals. Page and colour charges (if charged).

Excluded: BMJ’s fully open access (Gold) journals.

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation. You must include acknowledgement of one of the BMJ recognised funders (see above under Included). For full author instructions please refer to the BMJ website before submission.

Included: All CUPs hybrid and full open access (Gold) journals.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: All Company of Biologists hybrid and fully open access (Gold) journals.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Elsevier's Core hybrid titles (including hybrid titles in the Cell Press and Lancet Collections). Find participating journals using the Elsevier checker tool.

Excluded: Elsevier's full open access (Gold) journals. Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Whilst they do not offer an institutional agreement to publish open access in their journals Emerald operates a zero-embargo period policy which means authors can self-archive their author accepted manuscript to an institutional repository immediately on publication. For more information about this see 'Self-Archiving' on Open access publishing.

Included: Primary research articles, including research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles in hybrid and fully open access (gold) titles (exclusions below).

For a list of titles LJMU authors are able to publish in (Lists A, B and D) go to IOP open access for the UK. Please note only primary research articles are covered by the publishing agreement in Reports on Progress in Physics.

Excluded: Fully open access (Gold) journals published on behalf of the American Astronomical Society.  Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

LJMU are members of the Open Book Publishers scheme which is an award-winning, non-profit publisher of Open Access monographs, run by academics in Cambridge and London and committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.

LJMU is a supporter of The Open Library of the Humanities (OLH). The OLH publishing platform and model ensures there are no article processing charges (APCs) for any researchers. OLH currently publishes and funds 27 journals.

Included: Research articles, review articles, brief reports and case reports in most OUP hybrid and fully open access (Gold) journals (exclusions below).

Excluded: European Heart Journal Supplements; JNCI Monographs; Journal of Computational Design and Engineering; Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. Article-commentary types. Titles that don't include an open access option. Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: All PLOS titles.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: All 7 Portland Press Research and Review journals.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: All Royal Society’s hybrid and fully open access journals.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Peer reviewed articles (full papers, communications and reviews) in RSCs hybrid journals.

Excluded: RSC's fully open access (Gold) journals and types of output not in the included section above. Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation both on the manuscript and in the online submission system.

Included: Sage's eligible hybrid journals. Check the Sage website for details of eligible titles. In addition a 20% discount for fully open access (Gold) journals where you are the corresponding author.

Excluded: Sage's fully open access (Gold) journals (20% discount of APCs see above). Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Springer, Nature and Palgrave hybrid journals. Page and colour charges (if charged). Please see the eligible journal lists for the Springer portfolio and Nature portfolio on the Springer website.

In addition a 15% discount for fully open access (Gold) journals where you are the corresponding author.

Excluded: Springer and Nature fully open access (Gold) journals.

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Original research articles in Taylor and Francis hybrid and full open access journals (exclusions below). Publishing in F1000 Research and Routledge Open Research (including but not limited to Research Articles, Method Articles, Antibody Validation Articles, Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Clinical Practice Articles, Case Reports, Opinion Articles).

Excluded: Dove Medical Press Titles. Titles that don’t include an open access option. Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation.

Included: Original research and review articles in Wiley hybrid OnlineOpen and Wiley and Hindawi fully open access (Gold) journals.

Excluded: Page and colour charges (if charged).

Instructions for authors: You must be the article's responsible corresponding author, use your university email address and ensure you list Liverpool John Moores University as your affiliation. Please be aware that this fund is limited nationally, so the terms of eligibility may change during the course of the year.