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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 Author Publication Charge (APC) Details
Yes Free Library's subscription pays the APC when authors are without available grant funding.
No $0-$6,619 The authors grant funidng pays the APC minus a $1000 subsidy paid by the library’s subscription.
Fully OA Journals
Grant Funding Author Publication Charge (APC) Details
Either Yes or No $0-$3,900 The library's subscription pays a $750 subsidy toward the APC. Authors must cover the remainder through their grant or other funding source.

Which journals are included?

Which institutions are participating?

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

Diagram: Agreement Workflow

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Agreement detail for Authors

Eligible Authors Corresponding authors that indicate an eligible institution as their primary affiliation when they submit the article for publishing
Eligible article types research article, review article, case report or brief report
Creative Commons reuse licenses available CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND (varies by journal)

Multi-payer OA Publishing Workflow

  1. Corresponding author indicates primary affiliation with an eligible institution at submission
  2. Author receives email with link to online licensing and payment system SciPris when the Article is peer reviewed & accepted for publication
  3. Author creates/logs in to SciPris account (separate from submission system)
  4. Hybrid Journal Article Process | Hybrid infographic (pdf)
    1. Author chooses an open access license (or opts out of Open Access)
    2. For OA articles, the $1000 subsidy covered by the library subscription is applied automatically 
    3. Author specifies whether funding is available to pay the APC
      1. When no grant funding is available, the library subscription covers the full cost
      2. When funding is available, author specifies payment details to pay the remainder of the APC
  5. Fully OA Journal Article Process | Fully Open infographic (pdf)
    1. Author chooses an open access license
    2. The $750 subsidy covered by the library subscription is applied automatically
    3. Author specifies payment details to pay the remainder of the APC

Publisher Documentation

Agreement Terms

Model

Multipayer Read & Publish Agreement

 
Fees 33% lower annual increase than standard agreement
Publisher Description See selected details on Oxford's Open Access Agreements website

SCELC Agreement

Growth Includes transfer titles (up to 5% new titles/year)
Retroactive Conversion Not typically offered or included in this agreement. If author of eligible article was not offered agreement benefits, contact openaccess@oup.com with cc: oa@scelc.org  
Publishing History [Forthcoming] Institutional Publishing History
Read Benefits Access to closed articles (1996 to present)  
Journals Included 

Full Collection (Subject collection subscribers must upgrade to participate)

(See "2025 Current Collection" on the OUP title list page for KBART list)

375 Titles
Post Cancellation 
Access Rights
Included for All Volumes published during the term of the Subscription Agreement   
Workflow Manual: Author-driven  
Identification at Acceptance: when received into production [Ringgold-based]
Approval SCELC approves hybrid journal article funding requests for full coverage
Reporting Full data inlcludes:
name of the Eligible Author, with its email address and ORCID;
name of the Customer based on information provided by the Eligible Author;
article title;
article type;
Received Into Production date;
OA Licence selected by the Eligible Author;
Eligible journal title;
Eligible journal ISSN;
DOI;
OA journal model (hybrid/fully OA);
OA licence (yes/no);
APC multipayer choice (e.g. fully paid by Consortium, partially paid by Eligible Author);
APC list price;
APC list price currency;
Funder name; and
Grant ID
Partial data available on demand, Full data semi-annually and on request
License 2025 - 2028 License Consortia Manager 
Agreement link
Marketing Resources    
Article Publication Reports