This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All research staff, teaching staff, and students affiliated to KCL at the point of submission.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: Any ACS journal
- Eligible article types: Research articles and all other article types that are eligible for open access publication under the policy of a given journal. This does vary between journals so please check with the relevant editorial team if in doubt. Chapters or portions of e-books are not included, nor are additions, corrections, or editorials.
To publish under this agreement, corresponding authors should ensure during submission that they select King’s College London as their institution from the drop-down menu in ACS Paragon Plus (the online submission system) and use their institutional email address. Please check your affiliation is clearly stated on the manuscript too. On acceptance, please follow the steps under ‘How to publish open access under an institutional agreement’ on this ACS website. KCL’s Research Support Team will then review your request.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: All AIP hybrid journals, excluding Physics Today and the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. No fully open access journals are included.
- Eligible article types: Research articles only.
Only a limited number of articles can be published under this agreement in any given year, so priority may be given to current staff and research students.
To publish under this agreement, please follow the guidance contained in AIP’s guide for authors at the point of submission to ensure that your paper is recognised as eligible.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review E, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review Fluids, Physical Review Materials. The agreement does not include fully open access journals.
- Eligible article types: Regular articles, letters, rapid communications, reviews, perspectives, and short papers.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: The 12 APS peer-reviewed hybrid journals. Comprehensive Physiology and APS’s three fully open access journals (Function, Advances in Physiology Education, Physiological Reports), are excluded.
- Eligible article types: Primary research and review articles.
If you wish to publish under this agreement, please follow the instructions under ‘What do I need to do during the submission process to qualify?’ AND ‘How do I inform APS that my institution will pay for my article to be published OA?’ on this APS webpage. You must include your ORCID ID with your paper on submission. APS will then identify your article as eligible and publish it Open Access.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license without incurring an article processing charge (APC) in ACM journals and proceedings. This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL-affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: The list of eligible journals and conference proceedings is available on ACM webpages.
- Eligible article types: Research articles, short papers, review and survey articles, technical notes, tutorials, interviews and notes.
If you wish to publish under this agreement, please ensure that you submit your output using King’s email address, so that the submission system can recognise your output as eligible for inclusion in the deal.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to receive a 15% discount on their article processing charges if their paper acknowledges funding from a UKRI research council, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, or Cancer Research UK. The agreement covers BioMed Central, Springer Open and Nature fully open access journals.
Authors acknowledging funding from one of these organisations must apply for block grant funds to cover for the remaining of the APC using this funding request form, preferably before submission.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding required? Yes, the research must be wholly or partially funded by a UKRI research council, the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Blood Cancer UK, Innovate UK, Research England, Parkinson’s UK, or Versus Arthritis.
- Eligible journals:
- Eligible article types: Articles reporting on original research including, but not limited to, research articles, protocols, and systematic reviews. For authors funded by a UKRI research council, a wide range of other review articles are also covered, including clinical reviews and narrative reviews.
To publish under this agreement, please ensure at submission that your KCL affiliation is clear on your manuscript, that all relevant grants and grant codes are acknowledged, and that you are using your kcl.ac.uk email address as your paper’s correspondence address. You will also need to use this address and enter your grants in BMJ’s submission system. Upon acceptance, your paper will be referred to the Open Research Team for approval.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding Required: No
- Eligible journals: Bioscientifica’s hybrid and fully open access journals are included.
- Eligible article types: All article types.
To publish under this agreement, please ensure that your institutional affiliation is clear on the manuscript and in Bioscientifica’s submission system. Please also include your ORCID ID and ensure that you use your institutional email as the paper’s correspondence address. On acceptance, follow the payment workflow to request funding from King’s College London. This request will be referred to the Open Research Team for approval. For further information see Open Access Policy | Bioscientifica.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: All of Brill’s hybrid and fully open access journals.
- Eligible article types: Research articles, review articles, and conference papers.
To publish under this agreement, please state your KCL affiliation on your manuscript and make sure that you use your institutional email as your paper’s correspondence address. If submitting directly to a journal contact, please state that you wish to publish Open Access and are eligible for the agreement in your covering letter. If submitting through Brill’s Editorial Manager system, please confirm that you are eligible for the agreement and wish to publish Open Access when prompted. Brill should then automatically waive the APC for your paper.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All current KCL-affiliated staff and students.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: There are 380 hybrid and fully open access journals covered by the agreement. To see a complete list of these, use CUP’s tool here. Select ‘United Kingdom’ and then ‘King’s College London’ before clicking ‘View your publishing agreement’. Scroll down to see the complete list of eligible journals.
- Eligible article types: Research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports as defined on CUP’s website here.
To ensure that your paper is identified as eligible for the agreement by CUP, please state your KCL affiliation clearly on your manuscript and any cover letter at submission and use your kcl.ac.uk email address as the paper’s correspondence address. Please also include your ORCID ID, if you have one. Once accepted, your paper should be referred to the Open Research Team for approval.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and research students. You do not need to be in receipt of funding to take advantage of this agreement.
- Funding required? Funding is not required to publish Open Access in a hybrid journal included in the deal. Fully Open Access journals will receive a 15% discount. The remaining 85% of the APC must be covered. Authors acknowledging UKRI research council, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, or Cancer Research UK funding can apply for open access funds using the funding request form.
- Eligible journals:
- Many of Elsevier’s hybrid journals are included in this agreement. If your journal appears in Elsevier’s search tool here, it is covered.
- Fully open access journals are excluded but KCL-affiliated authors will receive a 15% discount on the APC when publishing in these.
- Eligible article types: Case Reports, Data in Briefs, Full-Length Articles, Mirco-Articles, Original Software Publications, Practice Guidelines, Protocols, Review Articles, Replication Studies, Short Communications, Short Surveys, and Video Articles. For the Cell Press journals that are covered by the agreement, Review Articles and Short Surveys are excluded. For the journals from The Lancet that are covered, ONLY Full-Length Articles are eligible.
To ensure that your paper is processed under the agreement by Elsevier, follow the steps under ‘Process’ on this Elsevier webpage once your paper has been accepted.
This agreement allows KCL authors to receive a 10% discount on their article processing charges if their paper acknowledges funding from a UKRI research council, the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, or Cancer Research UK.
Authors acknowledging funding from one of these organisations must apply for block grant funds to cover for the remaining 90% of the APC using the funding request form. The Open Research Team will be alerted to articles eligible for the discount automatically and, once a paper is accepted, a discounted invoice will be sent to the Team for processing.
If you receive an invoice from Frontiers for an article after you have completed the funding request form, please forward the invoice to openaccess@kcl.ac.uk, quoting your funding request form reference number (FRM123456), and we will advise you on next steps.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding Required: No
- Eligible journals: The journals included in lists A, B, C, and D on this IOP webpage.
- Eligible article types: Research paper, review, special issue, and letter article types
To take advantage of this agreement, please follow the IoP’s guidance for submitting for publication under a transformative agreement.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) licence by default without incurring an article processing charge (APC) or any other publication charges. This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement. If required by your funding body (e.g. the Wellcome Trust), Karger will apply a CC BY licence to your paper instead.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: All Karger hybrid and fully open access journals.
- Eligible article types: A wide range of article types including research articles, review articles, commentaries, case reports, and editorials.
Authors should follow the instructions on Karger’s manuscript submission form to indicate your eligibility. Karger will then verify the details you have provided and publish your paper under the terms of the agreement. To have a CC BY licence applied to the paper where funding requires, please ensure that details of your funders, where applicable, are clearly stated on your submission form and in the ‘funding sources’ section of your manuscript.
For further information, please see this Karger website.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All research staff, teaching staff, and students affiliated to KCL at the point of submission.
- Funding required? No
- Eligible journals: All 33 journals that King's subscribes to
- Eligible article types: original research and review articles submitted on or after 1st January 2024
If you wish to publish under this agreement, please ensure that you submit your output using King’s email address, and provide King's as your affiliation, so that the submission system can recognise your output as eligible for inclusion in the deal. At acceptance, the Research Support team will be notified about your article, and confirm your eligibility.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: All 6 Microbiology Society journals.
- Eligible article types: All peer-reviewed articles.
To publish under this agreement, please ensure that your KCL email address has been used as the paper’s correspondence address. If this is in place, the publisher should automatically waive the APC for your paper. For further information, please see this Microbiology Society website under ‘How it works’.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement. If you are not offered a CC BY licence by OUP, please contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: Please see the lists of hybrid and fully open access journals covered by this agreement for UK Institutions (Jisc affiliated) under the heading ‘How can authors affiliated with participating institutions make use of the OA funds?’ on this OUP website.
- Eligible article types: Original research and review articles only.
Authors must submit using their King's College London affiliation as the primary affiliation in the submission system in order to correctly be routed to the agreement. For more information on the agreement please visit this OUP website, and see further instructions under ‘I’m an eligible author, what do I need to do?’ (scroll halfway down to see this) to publish your article under the agreement.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY ) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: The following journals ONLY:
- PLOS Complex Systems
- PLOS Computational Biology
- PLOS Digital Health
- PLOS Genetics
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS ONE
- PLOS Pathogens
- PLOS Climate
- PLOS Global Public Health
- PLOS Water
- Eligible article types: All article types.
If these criteria are all met, please ensure that you list your institutional affiliation in PLOS’s submission system, the ‘Editorial Manager’. In the ‘Additional Information’ section of this system, you must also scroll down to ‘Publication Fees’ and select ‘King’s College London’ under the section ‘My institution will fully...’. PLOS will then automatically publish your article under the terms of the agreement.
For further information, refer to PLOS’s FAQs for authors and the section entitled ‘PLOS Flat Fee Agreements’.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement. If you are presented with a different licence than CC BY, please inform openaccess@kcl.ac.uk
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff. Corresponding authors MUST have an ORCID ID and include it on their paper.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: All 7 Portland Press journals, hybrid and fully open access.
- Eligible article types: All article types.
If these criteria are all met, please follow the guidance available from Portland Press here on submission to make sure that your article is identified as eligible for the agreement and referred to the Research Support Team for approval.
For more information please see this Portland Press webpage.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. This also includes retired (emeritus) staff. Corresponding authors MUST have an ORCID ID and include it on their paper.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: All RSC hybrid journals. Full (‘Gold’) and ‘diamond’ open access journals, along with Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP) are NOT included. See the list of journals categorised according to their open access status on this webpage.
- Eligible article types: All article types.
If you meet these criteria, please follow the instructions under ‘When you are ready to publish’ near the bottom of this RSC webpage to ensure that your paper is covered by the agreement and referred to the Research Support Team for approval.
This agreement allows the following:
- For SAGE hybrid journals: KCL affiliated corresponding authors can publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC).
- For SAGE Fully Open Access journals: KCL affiliated corresponding authors can publish under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence with a 20% discount on the APC. Authors will need to find funding for the remaining 80% of the APC. Those acknowledging UKRI research council, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, or Cancer Research UK funding can apply for block grant funds to cover this using this form.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding Requires? No, you do not need to be in receipt of funding to publish Open Access in a hybrid journal. If you are publishing in a Fully Open Access journal you must find a source of funding for the discounted APC.
- Eligible journals: All hybrid journals that offer the ‘SAGE Choice’ open access option. For a complete list, see this webpage. For a list of the Fully Open Access journals that offer the 20% discount to KCL authors, see the link under ‘Gold open access journals’ on this webpage. From January 2025 the agreement also includes IOS Press hybrid journals.
- Eligible article types: This agreement covers but is not limited to original research papers, review papers, brief communications, short reports, and case reports. Please note that articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, calls for papers, and news items or similar are excluded from the agreement.
If you meet the eligibility criteria below, please make sure that your KCL affiliation is clear on your manuscript, in SAGE’s submission system, and that you have taken note of the guidance on this webpage.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC) in The Journal of Neuroscience. This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing in this journal.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and research students.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: The Journal of Neuroscience
- Eligible article types: Research and review articles
If you meet these criteria, ensure that you submit your article using your King’s email address and provide King’s College London as your affiliation. Upon acceptance, SfN will identify your article as eligible and publish it Open Access.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The agreement includes Springer, Nature, and Palgrave hybrid journals. If you are publishing in a fully Open Access journal, there will be an APC charged, which we may be able to cover if you receive funding from UKRI, Wellcome Trust, British Heart foundation, and/or Cancer Research UK. To apply, please fill out our Funding Request Form.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: King's affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students. The paper must have an affiliated KCL staff member or student as the corresponding author.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: Hybrid journals that offer CC BY licence published by Springer, Nature Academic, Nature Research, and Palgrave Macmillan are included in the deal. You can see the full list on the publisher's website.
Journals that are not included in the agreement: SpringerOpen journals, BMC Journals, any Nature journal starting with ‘Communications’, NPJ partner journals, Nature Reviews, Scientific American, Scientific Data.
Eligible article types: Original research papers*, review papers, brief communications, and continuing education pieces. See the FAQs section for definitions.
To publish under the agreement, please claim KCL affiliation and use your KCL email address, so you can be easily identified. After acceptance Springer Nature will send a link to ‘My Publication’ form. You will need to confirm your KCL affiliation and email address and agree to the terms. Your paper will then be referred to the Open Research team for approval for publication under the agreement.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding Required? No. However, please note, the number of articles that can be published Open Access in a year is capped; therefore, if we get near the cap priority may be given to funded (UKRI, Wellcome Trust, BHF, CRUK) staff and research students.
- Eligible journals: Taylor & Francis hybrid journals in the ‘Open Select’ collection and fully open access journals. You can check whether your chosen journal is included in the agreement using this search tool.
- Eligible article types: Core journal content is eligible for this deal including full-length research articles, reviews, protocols, case reports, and other papers that report original research. Ineligible content includes book reviews, editorial content, and front matter.
If your paper meets these eligibility criteria, you will be presented with the option to publish your article Open Access under our agreement in the T&F author portal once your paper has been accepted. Please select this option and a request will be forwarded to the Research Support Team for approval.
For more information refer to Taylor and Francis.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Ccommons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students enrolled at KCL at the time that their paper is accepted.
- Funding Required? No
- Eligible journals: All De Gruyter hybrid journals. Fully open access journals are not covered by the agreement.
- Eligible article types: Original papers, review papers, brief communication, continuing education, and case reports.
Please follow the instructions on this webpage under ‘How to publish your article in open access’ (near the bottom) to make sure that your article is recognised by De Gruyter as eligible for the agreement. De Gruyter will then refer your article to the Open Research Team for approval for publication under the deal.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding Required? No, you do not need to be in receipt of funding to take advantage of this agreement. However, only a limited number of articles can be published under this agreement in any given year so, if this limit is approached quicker than expected, the agreement may be restricted to funded (UKRI, Wellcome Trust, BHF, CRUK) research staff and students.
- Eligible journals: All Wiley hybrid and fully open access journals. See the lists on this page under ‘Publish open access with Wiley’.
- Eligible article types: Primary research or review articles.
If publishing in a fully open access journal, please follow these instructions to ensure that your article is covered by the agreement. If publishing in a hybrid journal, follow these instructions instead – in such cases you must order ‘open access’ at the point of acceptance or risk your article being made ineligible for open access and published behind a paywall.
For more information, please see this Wiley webpage.
This agreement allows KCL affiliated corresponding authors to publish Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence without incurring an article processing charge (APC). This is because the library has paid a one-time fee to facilitate open access publishing as part of the agreement.
The following eligibility criteria must be met to publish under the agreement:
- Eligible corresponding authors: All KCL affiliated research staff, teaching staff, and students.
- Funding Required? No, you do not need to be in receipt of funding to take advantage of this agreement. However, only a limited number of articles can be published under this agreement in any given year so funded (UKRI, Wellcome Trust, BHF, CRUK) staff and research students may be prioritised.
- Eligible journals: Select Wolters Kluwer hybrid journals – see this list. No fully open access journals are included.
- Eligible article types: Peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews, case reports, and conference papers. Editorials, commentaries, correspondence, and similar content are ineligible.
You must ensure that you enter your institutional email address and affiliation in the journal’s submission system to be included under the agreement. On acceptance, you will be asked to place an open access order in the publisher’s payment portal where you will be able to request that the APC be covered by this agreement. Wolters Kluwer will then refer this request to the Research Support Team for approval.
For more information, please see this Wolters Kluwer page and the information relevant to this agreement under the ‘Wolters Kluwer/Jisc Agreement’ heading (near the bottom).