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If you are a researcher from Lancaster University you can search for your favourite journals or filter to get to a selection of journals that match your research topic. Select a funder to see whether the journals are compliant. Check the filter ‘Journals with Agreements’ to limit the list to journals for which the APCs are fully waived (i.e. included in our Read and Publish agreements) or discounted. If a cost is shown then click ‘Check & Apply’ to see if the Open Access team can cover costs.
Applied research
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Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed a Read and Publish agreement with Wiley which provides unlimited open access publishing for corresponding authors at Lancaster University. A CC BY licence must be chosen. Your article must be primary research or a review article. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded from this agreement.AppliedChem
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed an agreement where corresponding authors at Lancaster University can receive 20% discount on article processing charges for MDPI's fully open access journals. Only one discount through an IOAP scheme is permitted per paper and any discount offered by the editorial office is inclusive of the IOAP discount (e.g., discount vouchers, or waivers). The IOAP discount can be combined with reviewer vouchers, but cannot be stacked with a society membership discount. Currently the library can approve UKRI funded papers only (where 30% discount should be applied).AppliedMath
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed an agreement where corresponding authors at Lancaster University can receive 20% discount on article processing charges for MDPI's fully open access journals. Only one discount through an IOAP scheme is permitted per paper and any discount offered by the editorial office is inclusive of the IOAP discount (e.g., discount vouchers, or waivers). The IOAP discount can be combined with reviewer vouchers, but cannot be stacked with a society membership discount. Currently the library can approve UKRI funded papers only (where 30% discount should be applied).AppliedPhys
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
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Approaches to Translation Studies
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music Education
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Approaching Religion
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Approximation Theory and its Applications
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
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Appunti Romani di Filologia: Studi e comunicazioni di filologia, linguistica e letteratura greca e latina
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apskaitos ir finansų mokslas ir studijos: problemos ir perspektyvos
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apuntes Contables: Revista Científica de Contabilidad
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apuntes Universitarios
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
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Apuntes de Bioética
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apuntes de Economía y Sociedad
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apuntes de Investigación del CECYP
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Apuntes: Journal of Cultural Heritage Studies
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
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Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Apunts Sports Medicine
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Apunts: Educación Física y Deportes
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
Your funder’s grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.