Read and Publish: Cambridge University Press

This guide covers how academics can access journals the library subscribes to, and we support our researchers to publish gold open access papers in these journals.

BCU has subscription to Cambridge University Press (CUP) Jisc Transformative agreement for the period of 2021-2024.

This Read and Publish Deal covers the access to read the contents of Cambridge Core and the access to publish your article Gold OA at no cost to you.

Use the CUP eligible checker to find out if you are eligible and follow the submission procedure below.

Criteria and restrictions

Author eligibility

The corresponding author must be affiliated with Birmingham City University.

 

Article eligibility

Research articles, review articles and rapid communications –see definitions at Cambridge Core Article type definitions.

 

Journals covered

Over 370 journals listed:  Download list from Cambridge.org ( Excel).

 

How to access

You will need to submit your article using your BCU details (ideally your ORCID iD) and then fill in the journal’s Open Access publishing agreement and select a Creative Commons Licence. The library will then receive the funding request via the Rightslink platform.

 

More information

 Cambridge Core: OA agreement - JISC, UK