Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026
Update September 2024 - This fund is closed for 2024. Articles accepted for publication in 2024 will not be able to refer OA fees to UL. Articles can still be published as subscription articles.
The agreement covers over 2000 Open Select Journals
Only original research papers are covered by the agreement.
The eligible article types are:
Some articles which are not original research papers, such as Editorials, Announcements, and Book Reviews, are not covered by this open access publishing agreement. If you have a question about eligible article types, please contact Taylor & Francis.
Upon acceptance the author will be offered the option to publish Open Access based on the agreement. Once the author has selected open Access it will then be sent to the library for approval. If the Open Access allowance has been used for the year, the author will then be given the option of either paying the APC with their own research funds or publishing the article an a normal subscription article.
The author submission workflow text may give the impression that authors will be billed for the APC if they choose OA and are rejected by the library for APC funding. We can confirm that this will not happen, if rejected, authors will be offered a choice (OA and paying the APC from their own funds, or subscription access at no cost). From later in 2021 the acceptance emails sent to authors will also make this clear.
The slides below describe the author workflow for this agreement.
Corresponding authors must be a current staff member or student of UL.
In the article submission process you must correctly identify your institution.
You should use your UL email address when submitting your article.
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, the publisher will give you the opportunity to make your article Open Access and apply a Creative Commons license. The publisher will then contact the participating institution to confirm your eligibility under the agreement.