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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.
Earth Evolution Sciences
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Earth Interactions
Earth Interactions is an electronic journal dealing with the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere in the context of global issues or global change. It exploits the capabilities of electronic communications technology and provides its authors the opportunity to use animations and other visualization techniques that traditional publications cannot accommodate.
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Earth Science Frontiers
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Earth Science Frontiers
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Earth Science Informatics
Aims and ScopeThe Earth Science Informatics [ESIN] journal aims at rapid publication of high-quality, current, cutting-edge, and provocative scientific work in the area of Earth Science Informatics as it relates to Earth systems science and space science. This includes articles on the application of formal and computational methods, computational Earth science, spatial and temporal analyses, and all aspects of computer applications to the acquisition, storage, processing, interchange, and visualization of data and information about the materials, properties, processes, features, and phenomena that occur at all scales and locations in the Earth system’s five components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere) and in space (see 'About this journal' for more detail). The quarterly journal publishes research, methodology, and software articles, as well as editorials, comments, and book and software reviews. Review articles of relevant findings, topics, and methodologies are also considered.
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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 a Read and Publish agreement (until 31 December 2025) which provides unlimited open access publishing for corresponding authors at Lancaster University for the following types of outputs: Original Paper; Review Paper; Brief Communication; and Continuing Education. A CC BY licence must be chosen.Earth Science Malaysia
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Science Research
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Science, Systems and Society
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Sciences History
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Sciences Pakistan
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Sciences Research Journal
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Surface Dynamics
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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 up to a membership agreement with Copernicus (until 31 December 2026) which gives 10% discount on APCs. The library can pay for APCs for UKRI funded papers only. A CC BY licence must be chosen.Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions
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Following acceptance, please deposit your author accepted manuscript in a repository without embargo.
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
The Journal of the British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) , formerly the British Geomorphological Research Group (BGRG), is a professional organisation that promotes the field of geomorphology, encouraging interests in: earth surface process, and the erosion, deposition and formation of landforms and sediments. Foci include the physical geography of our river, valley, glacier, mountain, hill, slope, coast, desert and estuary environments; alongside responses to Holocene, Pleistocene or Quaternary environmental change. The BSG webpages outline the societies activities, and includes details of: forthcoming meetings, conferences and field excursions; publications (the Geophemera newsletter and this journal); research funding; educational resources for schools; and membership details.
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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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Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed a Read and Publish agreement (until 31 December 2025) 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.Earth System Dynamics
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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
Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed up to a membership agreement with Copernicus (until 31 December 2026) which gives 10% discount on APCs. The library can pay for APCs for UKRI funded papers only. A CC BY licence must be chosen.Earth System Dynamics Discussions
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Select the open access publishing option with a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ license to ensure compliance.
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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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Earth System Governance
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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
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Institutional Agreement
Lancaster University has signed a Read and Publish agreement (up until 31 December 2025) and as part of this corresponding authors at Lancaster University can receive 15% discount on article processing charges for fully open access journals. Please contact the open access team openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk once your paper has been accepted to see if funding is available.Earth System Science Data
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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 up to a membership agreement with Copernicus (until 31 December 2026) which gives 10% discount on APCs. The library can pay for APCs for UKRI funded papers only. A CC BY licence must be chosen.Earth System Science Data Discussions
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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
Earth Systems and Environment
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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.