Open Access publisher deals

Transformative Agreement.
All research articles and conference proceedings with a corresponding author from the participating institution are made OA upon publication.

Outputs classified as research articles and conference proceedings are eligible for inclusion.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2025.

The ACM agreement is uncapped, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during its duration.

Transformative Agreement.

There will be no direct charge to authors or Brunel for open access publishing for an eligible paper (e.g. original articles reporting on primary research), provided an eligible corresponding author is at Brunel. Choose a CC BY licence.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2024.

The BMJ agreement is uncapped, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during its duration.

BMJ outline the deal for authors here.

Transformative Agreement.

Eligible Brunel authors can publish eligible article types open access in the included journals, hybrid and fully open access, without further cost.

Eligible paper types include: research articles, review articles and rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2024.

The Cambridge agreement was uncapped in the first year, and operated with a rolling threshold that cannot be changed this close to the end of the agreement, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during the remaining duration.

Cambridge provide guidance for authors here.

Transformative Agreement.
Eligible Brunel "submitting corresponding authors" can publish eligible article types open access in the included journals without further cost. Hybrid titles and a few fully open access ones are included. Most fully open access journals still incur an article processing fee, albeit discounted as a result of the deal.

Eligible paper types include: case reports; data in Briefs; full-length articles; micro-articles; original software publication; practice guidelines; protocols; review articles; replication studies; short communications; short surveys; video articles.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2024.

The Elsevier agreement is uncapped, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during its duration.

Transformative Agreement.
The proposal allows for unlimited open access publication by researchers at participating institutions in eligible titles.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Brunel are currently eligible to publish research articles and reviews (letters, papers, reviews and special issue articles) open access in 55 hybrid titles and 21 fully OA titles.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2025.

The IOP agreement is uncapped, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during its duration.

Transformative Agreement.
There will be no direct charge for open access publishing of research or review articles submitted to many hybrid and fully open access journals, provided the corresponding author is eligible and based at Brunel.

To include your paper, follow the steps outlined in OUP's guidance.

Transformative Agreement
Papers accepted in 'Sage Choice' subscription journals with eligible Brunel corresponding authors are entitled to be published open access without incurring an additional charge. Fully open access Sage journals will still incur an open access fee, so when submitting to such journals authors should routinely be filling this form in prior to submission to confirm whether Brunel can cover this cost.

Outputs classified by Sage as 'articles' will be eligible.

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2024.

Transformative  Agreement.
Papers accepted in 'Open Choice' subscription journals with eligible Brunel corresponding authors are entitled to be published open access without incurring an additional charge. Most fully open access Springer and BMC journals will still incur an open access fee, so when submitting to such journals authors should routinely be filling this form in prior to submission to confirm whether Brunel can cover this cost.

Eligible paper types: original papers; review papers; brief communications; continuing education

The current deal expires on the 31st of December 2024.

The Springer agreement is uncapped, so there should be no possibility of it being paused during its duration. There is however a related agreement that covers Nature Portfolio titles that is capped across the sector with an alternative deposit option when the cap is exceeded.

To include your paper, follow the steps outlined in the "workflow for authors" section of their guidance.

Transformative Agreement.
Eligible Brunel "responsible corresponding authors" can publish eligible article types open access in the included journals, hybrid and fully open access, without further cost. 

Eligible paper types: primary research articles and a review articles.

The current deal expires on the 31st December 2025.

The agreement uncapped for subscription journals, but for fully open access journals it is capped across the sector, meaning that it is possible that the agreement will be paused if that cap of articles is reached.

Wiley provide guidance for including your paper in the deal, depending on whether it operates on a hybrid (subscription) or gold (fully open access) journal model, here.

APC discount =15%.
Papers for which Brunel has agreed to pay the open access publishing costs (through the completion of the eligibility form prior to the paper's submission) are entitled to a 15% discount on the cost of APCs by Elsevier.

APC discount =15%.
Papers for which Brunel has agreed to pay the open access publishing costs (through the completion of the eligibility form prior to the paper's submission) are entitled to a 15% discount on the cost of APCs by Frontiers.

APC discount = 25%
Papers for which Brunel has agreed to pay the open access publishing costs (through the completion of the eligibility form prior to the paper's submission) are entitled to a 25% discount on the cost of APCs by the Royal Society.

APC discount =15%.
Papers for which Brunel has agreed to pay the open access publishing costs (through the completion of the eligibility form prior to the paper's submission) are entitled to a 15% discount on the cost of APCs by Springer.