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SCELC Oxford 2025-28 Read & Publish Open Access Agreement

About the SCELC Oxford Agreement

This open access agreement enables authors at the participating institutions to publish articles using an open access license at reduced or no cost in more than 500 hybrid and fully open access OUP journals.

Authors with grant funds available will pay a discounted open access publishing fee across OUP’s hybrid and fully open access journals. Authors who do not have grant funds available will be able to publish open access in hybrid journals at no cost to them.

Overview

What is the authors's cost to publish open access?

Hybrid Journals

Grant Funding Costs to authors Details
Yes Free Authors without available grant funding do not pay an APC (it is covered by your library’s subscription)
No $0-$6,619  Authors with available grant funding pay the APC minus a $1000 subsidy (covered by your library’s subscription)

Fully OA Journals

Grant Funding Costs to authors Details
Yes or No $0-$3,900 All authors pay the APC minus a $750 subsidy (covered by your library’s subscription) 

Which journals are included?

Which institutions are participating?

Effective Dates: February 4, 2025 to December 31, 2028