Oxford Brookes Library has signed an agreement with Sage that provides unlimited Open Access publishing in any subscription journal (that publishes a mix of Open Access and non-Open Access articles, sometimes called ‘hybrid’ journals) for Oxford Brookes researchers. For an article to qualify for this Open Access, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Oxford Brookes or another institution that has signed the relevant agreement.
The agreement does not include unlimited Open Access publishing in Sage’s Gold Open Access journals (i.e. journals that only publish Open Access articles). Instead the agreement provides a 20% reduction in the Open Access Fee that must be paid to publish in these journals, although again there are some journals that are excluded from this discount.
There are also some publication types (e.g. book reviews) and journals (e.g. those that join Sage mid-way through this agreement) that are excluded from this agreement.
This agreement expires on 31st December 2022.