Read and Publish: Deals
Library and Learning Resources currently subscribes to several national ‘read and publish’ deals negotiated by Jisc, who is active in negotiating with publishers across HE.
These deals allow for BCU staff and students to not only have ‘read’ access to the material (in the normal way we access online resources), but also allow BCU researchers to 'publish' Gold Open Access articles in selected journals without incurring article processing charges.
All these deals have their own criteria and restrictions. A common requirement is that you are the corresponding author and affiliated with BCU and using the BCU email address during submission. Please check the individual deals and make sure that both your article and the journal are eligible before you submit a funding request to the publisher. Please note the specific journal types covered by the deals: e.g. hybrid only (Elsevier, Sage, Springer, and T& F) or fully OA (Wiley, CUP and ACM).
You can type in the title of the Journal that you are interested in and "Birmingham City University" in the search boxes on Sherpa Lookup Tool and run a search to have a quick idea. It tells you whether there is an existing agreement that BCU is covering the journal's APC for gold open access publishing. Nevertheless, please still check the libguide's individual deal's eligible journals list (often in the form of a spreadsheet) for sure.
Any questions, contact Research Support Librarian.