King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of the AIP transformative agreement by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost.

There are no funding requirements for an article to be eligible. If your paper is acknowledging funding, please ensure that all funders and associated grants codes are included in the paper, as this is required to comply with most funders’ Open Access policies.

Journals included in the agreement consist of 25 hybrid journals: fully Open Access (Gold) journals are not included.

If you have any queries regarding eligibility, contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of the APS transformative agreement by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost.

There are no funding requirements for an article to be eligible. If your paper is acknowledging funding, please ensure that all funders and associated grants codes are included in the paper, as this is required to comply with most funders’ Open Access policies.

Journals included in the agreement consist of APS’ 12 hybrid journals: fully Open Access (Gold) journals are not included.

If you have any queries regarding eligibility, contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

APC discount = 20%

Pre-payment discount applies only when the university can meet the cost of the article from the grants provided by UKRI, Wellcome, BHF or Cancer Research UK (apply here before submission to confirm funds could be used on your paper). Authors should apply prior to submission, and if successful will be given a code by the Library Research Support team to pass to BMC on submission.

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of BMJ’s Publish and Read (Jisc) agreement by publishing their funded* articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost.

Journals included in the agreement consist of BMJ’s Standard Collection, a collection of 28 hybrid journals, that does not include The BMJ itself. There are no fully Open Access (Gold) journals included.

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have the corresponding author affiliated to King’s
• Be focusing on primary research
• Have been accepted by the eligible journal from 1 January 2021 onwards
• *Be acknowledging financial support from one of the following funders: UKRI, Wellcome, British Heart Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinsons UK or Versus Arthritis; articles not acknowledging funding are not eligible

The Library’s Research Support team should be alerted to eligible articles for approval automatically. If you have any queries regarding the eligibility of an article please contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk or openaccess@bmj.com.

Corresponding authors affiliated to King’s can publish their paper Open Access in any of Brill’s journals for free via the Bridging Agreement. The usual Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived. Only Research articles and Review articles are eligible.

When submitting a paper to a Brill journal, authors must indicate that they wish to publish Open Access and identify themselves as affiliated to King’s. If the paper is accepted by the journal, it will be published Open Access automatically, free of charge.

Finally, the agreement applies also to authors not acknowledging funding. However, if acknowledging funding, then please ensure details of ALL funder(s) and grant reference number(s) are acknowledged in the paper, as this is a requirement of most funder(s).

Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk

King’s corresponding authors, regardless of funding, can take advantage of CUP’s Jisc Agreement by publishing Open Access in one of the journals contained in this list of hybrid and fully Open Access journals.

Eligible article types include Original research articles, Review articles, Rapid Communications, Brief reports and Case reports (see this page of article type definitions).

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. However, to ensure requests are approved swiftly, authors are responsible for making sure the following are in place:

• Corresponding author’s email address is the institutional email (@kcl.ac.uk) and ORCID ID is included. Use of personal email address may risk your article’s eligibility for the agreement.
• The CC BY Open Access licence is chosen – not CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND (CC BY is the creative Commons Attribution licence – the licence many funders insist is applied to work they fund). If you are not presented with the CC BY licence option, then please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and let us know!
• If article is in receipt of UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation author notifies Research Support of the funder’s name and grant number at openaccess@kcl.ac.uk

Approval and publication of your paper may be delayed if the above conditions are not met when your article reaches the Research Support team for processing.

Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and oaqueries@cambridge.org

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of the Elsevier Transformative ‘Read & Publish’ agreement by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost. There are no funding requirements for an article to be eligible.

If your paper is acknowledging funding, please ensure that all funders and associated grants codes are included in the paper, as this is required to comply with most funders’ Open Access policies.

This deal will retroactively apply to articles accepted from 1 January 2022.

Journals included in the agreement consist of hybrid journals. Fully Open Access (Gold) journals are not included. Please see Elsevier’s list of included journals.

If you have any queries regarding eligibility, contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

APC discount - 10%

For authors who are funded by UKRI, the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation or Cancer Research UK, we have an institutional arrangement with Frontiers that can provide a 10%discount on the open access costs. Authors should apply for open access block grant funding in the usual way, prior to acceptance, and the Research Support team will be alerted to eligible articles automatically. Following an article’s approval for the agreement, a discounted invoice will be sent to the Research Support team to process as normal.

If you receive an invoice from Frontiers for an article that you have completed an open access funding request for, please forward the invoice to openaccess@kcl.ac.uk, quoting your funding request form reference (FRM) number, and we will advise on next steps.

IOP Publishing’s Read & Publish Agreement is available to King’s corresponding authors submitting to eligible journals, as follows:

• King’s corresponding authors can publish their papers Open Access at no cost.
• 44 hybrid (subscription) journals are included, as well as selected journals which are published by IOP on behalf of society partners. IOP’s fully Open Access journals are not included.
• Primary research articles and reviews (letters, papers, reviews and special issue articles) are eligible.
• CC BY 4.0 is offered as the standard license.

The agreement applies to King’s authors regardless of whether their papers acknowledge funding. However, if acknowledging funding, please ensure details of ALL funder(s) and grant reference number(s) are acknowledged in the paper, as this is a requirement of most funder(s).

IOP will automatically identify qualifying articles and inform authors of their inclusion; the Library’s Research Support team will also be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically.

Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

Karger’s Publish and Read Agreement for Jisc Members is available to King’s corresponding authors submitting to all Karger journals (about 80 hybrid and about 30 fully Open Access), as follows:

• King’s corresponding authors can publish their papers Open Access at no cost.
• Most Karger Open Access articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). When required by funding bodies such as the Wellcome Trust, Karger applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The agreement applies to King’s authors regardless of whether their papers acknowledge funding. However, if acknowledging funding, please ensure details of ALL funder(s) and grant reference number(s) are acknowledged in the paper, as this is a requirement of most funder(s).

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors, regardless of funding, can take advantage of OUP’s Jisc Agreement by publishing Open Access in a journal contained in this list of over 400 hybrid subscription and fully Open Access journals. Eligible article types include Original research and Review articles.

To ensure that requests are approved swiftly, authors are responsible for making sure the below are in place:

• When your article is accepted for publication contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk to confirm that your article is eligible for the agreement
• Follow the instructions of the OUP Open Access Account User Guide to refer the open access charges of the article to our agreement by signing to OUP’s online licensing and payment system
• Corresponding author’s email address is the institutional email (@kcl.ac.uk) and ORCID ID is included. OUP will not accept personal email addresses.
• The CC BY Open Access licence is chosen – not CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND (CC BY is the creative Commons Attribution licence – the licence many funders insist is applied to work they fund). If you are not presented with the CC BY licence option, then please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and let us know!
• If article is in receipt of UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation the research funder’s name and grant number is provided
• If page or colour charges apply for your article, you will need to arrange payment for those separately (or decline them if possible)– check the journal Instructions to Authors page for details of charges.

Approval and publication of your paper may be delayed if the above conditions are not met when your article reaches the Library’s Research Support team for processing. Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and prepayments@oup.com.

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of PLOS’s agreement by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost.

This agreement covers the following five PLOS journals:

• PLOS One
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Pathogens
• PLOS Genetics
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have the corresponding author affiliated to King’s
• Focused on primary research
• Accepted by 1st April 2022 onwards

This deal covers both funded and unfunded authors providing an opportunity for King’s authors to publish in an Open Access journal with a CC BY licence at no extra cost. To ensure that your paper is covered, in the Editorial Manager under Additional Information, scroll down to Publication Fees and select King’s College London under the section “My institution will fully...”. The Library’s Research Support team should be alerted to eligible articles for approval automatically. If you have any queries regarding the eligibility of an article, please contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

Portland Press’s Jisc Collections Transitional Agreement is available to King’s corresponding authors submitting to Portland Press’s all seven journals (all five hybrid plus two fully Open Access journals) as follows:

• King’s corresponding authors can publish their papers Open Access unlimitedly at no cost.
• Articles published under this Agreement are covered by a Creative Commons license (CC BY NC-ND for hybrid journals, CC BY for fully Open Access journals). If required by funders, a CC BY license applies.

The agreement applies to King’s authors regardless of whether their papers acknowledge funding. However, if acknowledging funding, please ensure details of ALL funder(s) and grant reference number(s) are acknowledged in the paper, as this is a requirement of most funder(s).

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors, regardless of funding, can take advantage of RSC’s Jisc Agreement by publishing open access in hybrid subscription journals at no additional cost. Please note that RSC gold OA journals and the Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP) are not included in the agreement.

The Library’s Research Support team, within the Library, will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. However, to ensure requests are approved swiftly, authors are responsible for making sure the following are in place:

• Corresponding author’s email address is the institutional email (@kcl.ac.uk) and ORCID ID is included. Use of personal email address may risk your article’s eligibility for the agreement.
• Author’s institutional affiliation and email address is included in the manuscript and remains the same, even after submission
• If the article is in receipt of funding, funder’s full name and grant code is entered the submission system
• The CC BY Open Access licence is chosen – not CC BY-NC (CC BY is the creative Commons Attribution licence – the licence many funders insist is applied to work they fund). If you are not presented with the CC BY licence option, then please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and let us know!

Approval and publication of your paper may be delayed if the above conditions are not met when your article reaches the Research Support team for processing.

SAGE’s UK JISC agreement is available to King’s corresponding authors submitting to either subscription (hybrid) or Gold (fully) Open Access journals, as follows:

• For Subscription (hybrid) journals – King’s authors submitting to a hybrid journal will be able to publish their paper Open Access for free.
• For Gold (fully) Open Access journals – King’s authors are entitled to a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) levied by the journal for Open Access publishing. The remaining cost of the APC will need to be covered using existing funding sources – e.g. if you are acknowledging funding from UKRI, the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, or Cancer Research UK, then please do so by applying for block grant funding which we shall check and approve (wherever possible and funds allow).
• Please note that when signing SAGE’s Contributor’s Agreement through SAGE’s Open Access Portal, you should select the CC BY Open Access license (not CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND). CC BY is the creative Commons Attribution license – the license many funders insist is applied to work they fund.

Finally, the agreement applies also to authors not acknowledging funding. However, if acknowledging funding, then please ensure details of ALL funder(s) and grant reference number(s) are acknowledged in the paper, as this is a requirement of most funder(s).

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of Springer Nature’s Read & Publish agreement (also known as Springer Compact) by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost.

There are no funding requirements for an article to be eligible. If your paper is acknowledging funding, please ensure that all funders and associated grants codes are included in the paper, as this is required to comply with most funders’ Open Access policies.

Journals included in the agreement consist of 2000 hybrid journals (see the available list). No fully Open Access (Gold) journals are included.

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. You can expedite the approval process by ensuring that you use your King’s email address (@kcl.ac.uk) as the correspondence email on the paper.

If you have any queries regarding eligibility, contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors can take advantage of the Taylor and Francis transformative agreement by publishing their articles Open Access, with a CC BY license, at no additional cost. There are no funding requirements for an article to be eligible. If your paper is acknowledging funding, please ensure that all funders and associated grants codes are included in the paper, as this is required to comply with most funders’ Open Access policies.

Journals included in the agreement consist of hybrid journals: fully Open Access (Gold) journals are not included. A number of Taylor & Francis journals are excluded – notably those that charge an Article Processing Charge of over £3000 (known as Premium journals).

If you have any queries regarding eligibility, contact openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.

King’s corresponding authors, regardless of funding, can take advantage of De Gruyter’s Jisc Agreement by publishing primary research and review articles Open Access in 260 hybrid subscription journals at no additional cost.

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. However, to ensure requests are approved swiftly, authors are responsible for making sure the following are in place:

• Corresponding author’s email address is the institutional email (@kcl.ac.uk) and ORCID ID is included. Use of personal email address may risk your article’s eligibility for the agreement.
• The CC BY Open Access licence is chosen. If you are not presented with the CC BY licence option, then please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and let us know!
• If article is in receipt of UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation author notifies Research Support of the funder’s name and grant number at openaccess@kcl.ac.uk

Approval and publication of your paper may be delayed if the above conditions are not met when your article reaches the Research Support team for processing.

King’s authors can take advantage of Wiley’s JISC Agreement by publishing Open Access in both hybrid subscription (Online Open) and fully Open Access journals. Only eligible article types (Original research articles and Review articles) can be published Open Access through this agreement.

Please note that this agreement depends on a limited funding pot shared across all participating institutions. If the pot is depleted faster than expected, Wiley reserve the right to restrict the agreement to certain articles – such as those acknowledging funding.

The Library’s Research Support team will be alerted to new eligible articles for approval automatically. However, to ensure requests are approved swiftly, authors are responsible for ensuring the following are in place:

• If publishing in a hybrid (subscription) journal, you must order OnlineOpen (Open Access) at the point of acceptance. Not doing so means the Research Support team at King’s won’t receive your article to review for possible inclusion in the deal, and your article may be published behind a subscription paywall. Once your article is published it’s possible your article can no longer be included in the agreement.
• Corresponding author is currently affiliated to King’s – if not, but UKRI, the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK funding held at King’s and acknowledged on research paper, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk for guidance.
• Corresponding author’s email address is the institutional email (@kcl.ac.uk) and ORCID ID is included (please check/reset via the Wiley Author Services dashboard, if necessary).
• The CC BY Open Access license must be chosen – not CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND (CC BY is the creative Commons Attribution license – the license many funders insist is applied to work they fund). If author not presented with the CC BY license option, then please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk and let us know!

Approval and publication of your paper may be delayed if the above conditions are not met when your article reaches the Research Support team for processing. Any queries, please email openaccess@kcl.ac.uk.