Gold Open Access – Research Office

Publish Open Access in the American Psychological Association (APA) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch August 19, 2022March 19, 20245 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in 88 hybrid journals in the PsycArticles portfolio, excluding the Hogefe collection of journals. This agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author who is …

Publish Open Access with American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 13, 2022October 26, 20238 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of American Chemical Society (ACS)’s hybrid or fully Open Access (gold) journals. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author …

Publish Open Access with Elsevier Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications March 30, 2022October 26, 20233 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no further charge to the author. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles in a wide variety of participating Elsevier journals across disciplines through gold open access. To be eligible: You must be …

Publish Open Access with Taylor and Francis Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications April 22, 2021October 26, 20238 comments

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 …

Publish Without Charge in select Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications April 19, 2021October 26, 20237 comments

Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in select PLOS journals, without having to pay open access, or APC fees. This is because, as a university, we have entered into an agreement with PLOS, covering the cost of publishing in PLOS ONE and any of the community …

Publish Open Access with Cambridge University Press

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications January 27, 2021October 26, 20237 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their research articles, review articles and rapid communications Open Access (OA) at no further charge to the author in Cambridge University Press gold and hybrid journals. To be eligible, articles must: Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications – click here …

How to Make Your Research Articles Open at Westminster

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications October 19, 2020January 11, 20244 comments

*** This Blog Post has been updated in March 2023, to include the increased number of open access options available *** The last couple of years have seen many changes in open access possibilities at the University, for Open Access week, I will give you a round up of the options that may be open …

Publish Open Access with Sage (including IMechE and RSM)

by Nina WattsScholarly Communications June 24, 2020October 26, 20234 comments

Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in 900+ subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package, the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection PLEASE NOTE, THIS ONLY COVERS THE HYBRID JOURNALS IN THESE LISTS, NOT THE FULLY GOLD OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS. Original research papers, review papers, brief …

Publish Open Access with Springer Nature

by Nina WattsScholarly Communications March 25, 2020January 11, 202412 comments

UPDATED IN OCTOBER 2023: the previously limited Springer Compact list of journals has been expanded to include 2051 Springer, Academic, Nature and Palgrave Macmillan journals. Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish articles in in more than 2000 of Springer Nature’s hybrid journals at no further charge to the author. This covers original …

Scholarly Communications Team

by Nina WattsOpen Access, REF, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications March 24, 20200 comments

The Scholarly Communications Team provides support to enable our researchers and doctoral researchers to publish and share their outputs. This includes: Advice relating to Open Access including funding and REF2021 Management of the Repository section of the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and Westminster Research, the University’s open access repository of research outputs of our academic community University of Westminster Press Advice and training relating to Research …