About the SCELC Cambridge Agreement

This open access agreement enables authors at 39 participating institutions across 32 SCELC licensees to publish articles using an open access license no cost across 412 journals. The APC (OA article processing charge) is fully covered for both hybrid journals and fully open access journals.

Overview

Journal Type	Author's Cost	Count of Journals	Details
Hybrid	$0	179	APC list price varies from $1715 to $5070
Fully Open Access	$0	233	APC list price varies from $2000 to $4390
Sponsored	$0	4	These journals do not charge APCs

Eligible Authors	Corresponding authors that indicate a participating institution as their primary affiliation when they submit the article for publishing. See the Cambridge Corresponding Author page for more detail.
Eligible article types	All original research articles qualify, including research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports. Book reviews, discussions, editorials, introductions, letters, meeting reports and proceedings are not covered under transformative agreements. See the Cambridge article type definitions for more detail.
Creative Commons reuse licenses available	Varies by journal as indicated in the Publish Title List. The most common set of available licenses is CC-BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND.

Choose the eligible Cambridge journal that best fits your work
Follow the instructions on your journal’s homepage to submit your manuscript
Upon acceptance, choose Open Access and select a Creative Commons license
'Request' funding of your APC transaction through Rightslink. All affiliated corresponding authors of eligible article types will have their APC fully covered. Your institution has pre-paid for OA publishing as part of this agreement so no further approval or library payment is necessary.

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