Open access agreements

We’re partnering with institutions and funders around the world to help researchers publish gold open access in their chosen journals. These agreements can mean that individual authors benefit from much reduced article publishing charges (APCs) or that they are able to publish open access at no cost to themselves.

Find out below if you’re eligible for this open access support.

Austria
Under this agreement corresponding authors at participating Austrian institutions, including those with Austrian Science Fund (FWF) support, can request funding towards the cost of publishing open access in Taylor & Francis Open Select (hybrid) journals.

China: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Corresponding authors affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) can now publish open access in Taylor & Francis journals at a discounted rate. This agreement includes articles published in full open access journals, including Cogent OA, as well as authors who wish to make their articles OA in Open Select (hybrid) titles. The offer is also available to researchers who would like to retrospectively convert previously published articles to open access. Further details about this agreement is available on the CAMS website.

Germany: Friedrich-Althoff-Konsortium
FAK, the regional consortium for Berlin and Brandenburg, offers participating institutions an allocation of discounted APCs for all Taylor & Francis Open Select (hybrid) journals. The Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Potsdam are already part of this agreement, so please speak to your librarian if you’re based at one of those institutions.

Germany: Leibniz Association
Corresponding authors based in one of the participating Leibniz Association institutions can choose to publish open access in a Taylor & Francis or Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journal without paying an article publishing charge. Please contact your librarian to find out whether your article will qualify.

Germany: Max Planck Digital Library
Corresponding authors based in Max Planck institutes are now eligible to have their article published open access without having to pay an article publishing charge. This applies to peer-reviewed papers in full open access and Open Select (hybrid) Taylor & Francis Group journals, including Routledge and Cogent OA titles. More information for Max Planck researchers is available on the MPDL website.

Hungary: Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ)
This agreement enables authors at affiliated Hungarian institutions to publish their work open access, without any direct cost to them, in fully open and hybrid Taylor & Francis journals, including Routledge and Cogent OA titles. Visit the EISZ website for more details.

Netherlands: VSNU (Association of universities in the Netherlands)
Articles with corresponding authors based at Dutch universities and university medical centers are now published gold OA, at no cost to the researchers, in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals. Researchers will automatically receive more details when their peer-reviewed article is accepted for publication.

Norway: UNIT
Taylor & Francis has signed a new 3-year partnership with UNIT, the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research. This ensures researchers from UNIT’s 23 institutions can publish their research open access and have continued read access to the Taylor & Francis and Routledge portfolio of journals.

Qatar: Qatar National Library
Under this ‘read & publish’ agreement all articles published in 2019 and 2020, with a corresponding author based at an institution in Qatar, will be eligible for open access publishing. This includes papers published in fully open access journals as well as those published in one of the 2,300 Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals.

Sweden: Bibsam
Corresponding authors at institutions participating in the Bibsam consortium can now publish open access in Taylor & Francis Open Select (hybrid) journals without having to pay an APC. Please contact your librarian for more details about how you can benefit from this agreement.

UK: JISC Collections
This agreement offers participating UK institutions an allocation of discounted APCs for most Taylor & Francis Open Select (hybrid) journals. Please note that Medical titles are not currently included in this scheme. Speak to your librarian to find out if your institution is part of the agreement.

USA: California Digital Library
Corresponding authors affiliated with any University of California campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab are eligible for a discount on the standard APC to make their paper open access in any Taylor & Francis, Routledge, or Cogent OA journal. Please visit the CDL website for more details.

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) network countries

Corresponding authors with primary affiliations based in one of the EIFL network countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia may be eligible for a 100% or 50% discount on the normal APC. For more information, including the list of countries and participating journals, please visit our EIFL page.

Open access member organizations

A number of individual institutions partner with Taylor & Francis to make funds available to authors wishing to publish open access. For more details visit the open access members page on Taylor & Francis Online.

Want to find out more about making your research open access? Read everything you need to know about publishing open access with Taylor & Francis.