Read and Publish Agreement
Author eligibility: Corresponding authors, including all undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff, who are affiliated with Manchester Met at the point of article submission.
Journals included: Publish open access in hybrid Core, Cell Press and the Lancet journals. To check if a journal is included in the agreement, please use Elsevier’s participating journal search.
Note:It also provides a 15% discount on APCs for open access publishing in fully Open Access Elsevier journals.
Eligible article types: Case reports, data in briefs, full-length articles, micro-articles, original software publication, practice guidelines, protocols, review articles, replication studies, short communications, short surveys, video articles. When publishing in eligible journals from The Lancet, full length articles are the only eligible article type.
How to apply:
- For hybrid Core, Cell Press and the Lancet journals via publisher website - no need to apply to APC fund
- For fully Open Access Elsevier journals via publisher website, if you need funding for the remaining APC, use the APC application form
Ends December 2024