Important information regarding this agreement for 2025
The CAUL open access publishing agreement with OUP has been renegotiated for 2025-2027. The agreement only covers hybrid open access journals. Journals that 'flipped' to be fully open access between 2022-2024 are no longer included in this agreement. The affected journals are:
- Briefings In Bioinformatics
- FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- FEMS Microbiology Reviews
- FEMS Yeast Research
- Health Policy And Planning
- Briefings in Functional Genomics
- European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters*
- Geophysical Journal International*
Authors with articles currently under review in these journals may be required to pay APCs if their articles are accepted. Please email openaccess@oup.com if you have questions.
*Some institutions will have OA publishing rights for RAS titles.
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. OUP publishes and develops titles in partnerships with many prestigious learned societies and prides itself on being a highly selective publisher. OUP has a new three-year R&P agreement with CAUL 2025-2027, allowing authors unlimited publishing in hybrid journals and read access to the full Oxford Journal Collection.
Members also have the choice to opt-in to unlimited publishing in the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) fully open access titles for an additional cost.
Further information on this agreement is available from Oxford University Press.
This page was last updated on 7 February 2025.
The following institutions participate in this agreement:
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in all of OUP's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published OA under this agreement.
Journals that 'flipped' to be fully open access between 2022-2024 are no longer included in this agreement. The affected journals are:
Briefings In Bioinformatics
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
FEMS Microbiology Reviews
FEMS Yeast Research
Health Policy And Planning
Briefings in Functional Genomics
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters*
Geophysical Journal International*Authors with articles currently under review in these journals may be required to pay APCs if their articles are accepted.
Members that have opted to take the add-on offer of unlimited publishing in the RAS journals will be able to publishing in the following fully OA titles as part of the agreement
Geophysical Journal International
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
RAS Techniques and Instruments
Articles accepted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
Corresponding author (as set in the submission system at time of acceptance)
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
The corresponding author's affiliation must be provided in the submission system in order to be identified as elligible. The affiliation must be selected from the auto-completing drop-down list and not entered as free text in order for the author to be identified as elligible. Any problems with entering the affiliation information during submission should be raised pre-acceptance.
A 10% discount applies to Fully Open Access journals that are not covered by this agreement.
The agreement allows for publishing in all journals. The complete title list is available online. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.
Under our CC BY license, authors grant OUP/the journal owner (if a society journal) a non-exclusive license to publish the work under CC BY terms.
Under our current CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND licenses, authors grant OUP/the journal owner the exclusive right to publish the work, while retaining significant rights (https://academic.oup.com/pages/authoring/journals/production_and_publication/online_licensing), and can also then re-use their work under the terms of the CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licenses.
We are currently reviewing our CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND licenses with the aim that the rights granted to OUP/the journal owner are primarily non-exclusive, with only specific exclusive commercial rights granted to OUP/the journal owner.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Article approvals are managed by CAUL via SciPris.
OUP does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
1. During peer-review/pre-acceptance, you should ensure that your affiliation is up-to-date and correct in your Submission System profile and on your article.
2. Once your article has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, you will receive an email which contains a link to the Online Licensing and Payments System, SciPris. SciPris will check your institutional affiliation and article type to determine if you are eligible to use the funds.
3.Proceed to request use of the Read and Publish Agreement funds.
4.Sign in and create an account if you don’t have one. (This is not the same system you used to submit your article to the journal.)
5.The license options are displayed. You won’t see any prices because you aren’t required to make a payment.
6.Send the request for review.
7.View your dashboard or sign out.
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Please email openaccess@oup.com for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
Please contact library staff at your institution for questions related to this agreement. They can provide advice on using the CAUL Open Access Agreements.
