Publish Open Access with Taylor and Francis Journals

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Taylor & Francis Open Select journals at no further charge to the author. Open Select gives you the option to make your paper open access in one of 2,300+ subscription journals. These span across subject areas and include both Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals.

To be eligible:

You must be the corresponding author who is affiliated with the University of Westminster at the point of acceptance.
Your paper must an original research article. Other types of paper, such as Editorials, Announcements, and Book Reviews, are not covered by this agreement.
Be accepted for publication after the 1st January 2021.

Please note:

If you are no longer affiliated with either Westminster, or another eligible institution, at the point of acceptance of your paper, you do not qualify.
Fully gold journals (those that only charge open access publishing fees, and not subscriptions) are not included in this agreement.
You are advised to use your institutional email address instead of your private email address, to enable Taylor & Francis to better identify you as eligible under the agreement, also and give the organisation name, University of Westminster, on submission.
This agreement covers the period 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025.

To find out if a journal is Open Select, look out for this indicator at the top of the journal homepage on Taylor & Francis Online:

You do not need to contact us to gain permission. Just follow the instructions and see your article fully open.

Further information:

Please see Taylor & Francis’ Open access publishing for researchers in the UK information.

Other publishers with similar agreements:

American Chemical Society (ACS): We have a similar agreements for ACS journals, which covers articles in both hybrid (subscription) and Gold open access (fully open) journals. Please see the ACS post for more detail.
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.
Wiley: We have a similar agreement for Wiley journals. Please see the Wiley post for more detail.