Publishing agreements and open access
Publishing agreement
After your manuscript is accepted, you will be asked to sign either a copyright transfer agreement or an open access (Creative Commons) licence through our licencing and payment portal, SciPris. There is a charge to publish under an open access licence, which allows your paper to be freely accessible to all readers immediately upon online publication. Editorial decisions occur prior to this step and are not influenced by payment or ability to pay. The Copyright Transfer Agreement makes your paper available only to Journal subscribers and there is no charge associated with the agreement. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please check with your funder or institution before selecting your licence.
Papers can be published under the following:
- Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY)
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence (CC BY-NC)
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND)
- United States Government Licence
- Crown Copyright Licence
Please see the OUP guidance on Licences, copyright, and re-use rights for more information regarding these publishing agreement options.
Complying with funder mandates
Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution before selecting your licence.
Further information on funder mandates and direct links to a range of funder policies.
Open access charges
Please see the details of open access licences and charges. If you select an open access licence, you must pay the open access charge or request to use an institutional agreement to pay the open access charge through our licencing and payment portal, SciPris.
OUP has a growing number of open access agreements with institutions and consortia, which provide funding for open access publishing (also known as Read and Publish agreements). This means corresponding authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution has an open access agreement.
To be eligible for one of OUP’s Read and Publish agreements, the corresponding author must provide their qualifying institution as their primary affiliation when they submit their manuscript. After submission, changing the corresponding author in order to access Read and Publish funding is not permissible.
