Read and Publish: Contacts

This guide covers the deals the library has with various journal publishers, and how to use those deals to read or publish articles without paying fees.

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What if my APC is not funded by a Read and Publish deal?

If the journal you want to publish with is not covered by our Read & Publish deals, you can check with your departmental Directors of Research to see whether School funding is available.

Neither the Library nor the Research Office has a central fund for APCs outside these deals. Please contact the Research Engagement Librarian if you have any questions about this.

Further Help

Library Research Support

Looking for more information to support your research at BCU and beyond? Check Guidance for Researchers or contact the Research Engagement Librarian, Guojin Liu.

Technical Questions about the Deals

If you have a question about how the deals work, or whether your article is eligible, please check the individual deal pages or email the Content & Open Research Team.

Article Licensing

Publishing Gold open access usually requires some variation of the Creative Commons licence. You can find a guide to this here. If you have any further questions, please contact the Digital Library.

BCU Open Access Repository

This guide is about publishing Gold Open Access. However, there is also the Green route, which is when you place the Author's Accepted Manuscript in the BCU Open Access Repository. This might be required by your research funder or by the BCU Open Access Policy. If you have further questions about the repository, please contact the Open Access mailbox.

Open Access Resources

Looking for Open Access resources you can use for for learning, teaching and research? Check the Open Access Resources guide.