The Cambridge University Press (CUP) Read & Publish/Transformative Agreement combines two valuable components:
(1) uncapped open access publishing for participating members’ researchers in all hybrid and gold OA journals within the CUP Full Journals Package,and
(2) expanded access to the full CUP journals list (over 430 titles). This includes leading titles across the Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Technology and Medicine. It also unlocks complementary access to a shallow backfile, comprised of more than one million articles.
Articles that comply with the following criteria will be automatically eligible:
-Corresponding author affiliated to WPI
-Article accepted for publication in CUP hybrid or gold open access journal within the full CUP Journals Package
-Article accepted for publication within the term of the agreement
-Article is one of five research article types, as defined by CUP (research, reviews, rapid communications,brief reports, case reports)
* When submitting their article, an author is asked to enter affiliation details into a submission system. Once an article is accepted for publication, metadata is fed to the production system, when the article is assigned a GRID ID based on the reported affiliation. This is an important detail in the context of assessing eligibility for OA publishing under a transformative agreement. If an article has a transformative agreement eligible GRID ID, CUP will assess the article under additional criteria relevant to the agreement (such as acceptance date, article type, in addition to other criteria noted above). If the article is eligible for inclusion under a live agreement the author’s APC will automatically be waived once they select to publish their article OA.
CUP utilizes Creative Commons (CC) licences. Creative Commons (CC) licences play an important role in facilitating Gold Open Access publishing. They provide a legal framework for giving users the ability to freely view, download and distribute content.
Step-by-step guide to Publishing Open Access in Cambridge journals
Publishing OA information for authors
Open access resources for authors