Hong Kong Institutions - Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC)

OUP and JULAC are pleased to announce that they have agreed a new three-year, read-and-publish agreement, running from 2025 to the end of 2027.

Authors at participating JULAC member institutions will benefit from open access publishing in more than 350 OUP hybrid journals at no cost to the author.

Director of Institutional Sales for EMEA & APAC at OUP, Steph Gittins, says “OUP is delighted to have reached this Read and Publish agreement with JULAC.  We are excited to collaborate with JULAC and its member institutions to advance our mutual objectives of fostering a more open and equitable research community”

“JULAC is committed to enabling open access (OA) to research publications. This agreement with OUP is an example of the tangible support that libraries can provide to their institution’s researchers in making their work OA,” said Shirley Wong, JULAC Chair and University Librarian, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Eligible authors from the institution can request use of this account to pay the Open Access charge when arranging payment in OUP’s online licensing and payment system.

How do I know if I am eligible?

To be eligible to publish Open Access and use funding from participating JULAC institutions you must be:

• the corresponding author of the article
• affiliated to one of the Hong Kong Institutions (JULAC affiliated) listed below.
  • You must indicate this as your primary affiliation when submitting the article in order to be recognized as eligible.
• publishing a research article, review article, case report or brief report which is received into OUP production on or after 1 January 2025
• publishing in an eligible hybrid journal
• If you are publishing your article in a Supplement, then you are not eligible to use Read and Publish funds to cover the open access charge.
• If you have any concerns about whether you are eligible for this Read and Publish agreement (e.g. if you have emeritus or visiting professor status), please contact your institution to confirm.

Your institution will verify your eligibility before paying your Open Access charge.

I’m an eligible author, what do I need to do?

To request use of Open Access funds from Hong Kong Institutions (JULAC affiliated) please follow the steps outlined in this step-by-step guide.

List of Institutions

• City University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Lingnan University
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The Education University of Hong Kong
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• The University of Hong Kong