Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in all five of Cogitatio’s open-access journals without having to pay open access (or APC) fees. This is because, as a university, we have entered into an agreement with Cogitatio, covering the cost of publishing in:
- Media and Communication
- Politics and Governance
- Social Inclusion
- Urban Planning
- Ocean and Society
We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this agreement.
Please note:
- You must be the corresponding author who is affiliated with the University of Westminster at the point of acceptance.
- You are advised to use your institutional email address instead of your private email address, and to state your Westminster affiliation.
You do not need to contact us to gain permission.
Further Information:
More information on this institutional membership is available.
Any questions, email: repository@westminster.ac.uk
A quick note on other publishers:
- American Psychological Association (APA): We have a similar agreement for APA journals. Please see the APA post for more detail.
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): We have an agreement covering journal articles and conference papers published by the ACM. Please see the ACM post for more detail.
- Cambridge University Press: We have a similar agreement for CUP journals. Please see the CUP post for more detail.
- Elsevier: We have a similar agreement for Elsevier journals. Please see the Elsevier post for more detail.
- Public Library of Science (PLOS): an agreement is now in place, allowing Westminster authors to publish in the gold open access journals: PLOS ONE, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLOS Pathogens, without having to pay individual APCs. More details in the PLOS post.
- Sage: We have a similar agreement for Sage journals. Please see the Sage post for more detail.
- Springer Nature: We already have a similar agreement for some Springer journals. Please see the Springer post for more detail, and a link to a list of eligible titles.
- Taylor & Francis: Taylor & Francis Open Select journals (including Routledge) now also has a ‘read and publish’ agreement. See the T&F post for more details.
- Wiley: We have a similar agreement for Wiley journals. Please see the Wiley post for more detail.
A very limited fund is available to pay individual APC charges for some articles in fully gold open access journals that we do not have specific agreements with. Please see the blog post.
