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Welcome to the Journal Guide
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.
AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering
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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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AIMS Energy
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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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AIMS Environmental Science
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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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AIMS Geosciences
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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
AIMS Journal
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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
AIMS Materials Science
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Mathematics
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Medical Science
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Microbiology
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Molecular Science
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Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Neuroscience
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIMS Public Health
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIP Advances
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
There is an agreement between Lancaster University and AIP that covers all their hybrid and fully open access journals. This means that you do not have to pay any Open Access fees for any articles that you get accepted in AIP's journals. A CC BY licence must be chosen.AIP Conference Proceedings
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
There is an agreement between Lancaster University and AIP that covers all their hybrid and fully open access journals. This means that you do not have to pay any Open Access fees for any articles that you get accepted in AIP's journals. A CC BY licence must be chosen.AIS Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AIS Transactions on Replication Research
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology
AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology will publish content that spans the breadth of the field and provide an inclusive and trustworthy open access venue for the global community, with editorial decisions based on the validity of the research and its value to the scientific record. It will provide specific sections for emerging branches of research, such as social epidemiology, and be inclusive of earlier career researchers within the authorship, editorship, and reviewer pools.
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AJIL Unbound
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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 Library has entered into a Jisc/CUP Open Access Read and Publish agreement (until 31 December 2026) which includes open access publication charges (whether your paper is UKRI funded or not). Articles must be original research - eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications. A CC BY licence must be chosen.AJIS: Academic Journal of Islamic Studies
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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
AJO International
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Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance.
Select the open access publishing option with a CC BY license to ensure compliance.
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.