Open access
Open access (OA) is a key part of how Oxford University Press (OUP) supports our mission to achieve the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. We work closely with our publishing partners to ensure that we offer open access in a sustainable way that supports research publications for their communities and OUP offers authors an array of publishing options for authors to make their research available to all and comply with funder mandates.
Open access for Journals
OUP’s open access publishing options include:
Hybrid open access
Hybrid journals include a mix of open access articles and articles available to those with a journal subscription.
Hybrid journals offer gold open access publishing to authors as an option. With gold open access, authors usually pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to make their research articles available upon publication, under a Creative Commons licence with re-use rights for readers.
For articles published under a Creative Commons licence, readers can re-use the work under the terms of the applicable licence.
Fully open access
All articles published in fully OA journals are available to all under open licenses. OUP uses Creative Commons licenses and there is usually an APC for OA publication.
‘Read and Publish’ transformative agreements
OUP has agreements with many institutions to provide access to OUP journals for faculty and students and provide funding for open access publishing for affiliated researchers. Find out which institutions are participating, and how to take advantage of available funding.
Green open access and self-archiving
OUP has self-archiving policies that permit authors to take advantage of green open access, by depositing their accepted manuscript (i.e., the post-acceptance version, before copyediting) into a non-commercial repository, where it can become freely available after the proscribed embargo period. Find out more about OUP green OA for journals.
Inclusive publishing
OUP believes that the move to open access and open research needs to be equitable and inclusive for all. We want to ensure that authors can publish in their journal of choice. As part of our Developing Countries Initiative, corresponding authors based in qualifying countries publishing in any of OUP’s fully open access journals are eligible for a full waiver of their open access charge.
Open access for Books
OUP has supported OA for books since 2012 as part of our mission to publish high-quality academic and research publications and ensure they are accessible and discoverable.
Publishing your book on an OA basis makes your work freely available online, with no barriers to access. OUP applies the same peer review and editorial development processes to all books whether published open access or under a customer sales model.
If you are considering publishing a book on an OA basis with OUP, please discuss the idea with your Editor. In most instances, the open access fee for books is met by a research funder under their funding and open access policy. All prospective authors are encouraged to provide information on any funding which directly supports the research for a proposed book so that we can plan the publishing route accordingly. You can also consult our information on funders and funder policies.
When a book is published OA it is:
- available to read on the Oxford Academic platform both in a browser and as a downloadable PDF
- available on Google books as a full preview
- indexed in, and available from, the OAPEN online library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) as a PDF
- sold in print and as an eBook
Your editor will be able to provide a quote for open access based on your proposal. Our open access fee excludes any element for costs associated with print manufacture, stock, warehousing, and fulfilment. Our fee is based on the average costs associated with developing and producing a monograph adjusted in the case of longer works or works which involve additional features.
As well as publishing new books on an open access basis we are also able to convert backlist titles to OA and if you are the author of a published work and a funder has made funds available to help accelerate OA by converting existing published works please contact your Editor.
Find out more about licences, charges and self-archiving for your open access book.
