Become an Open Access Champion
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Taylor & Francis is working towards a future where trusted knowledge is available to all. Open research offers the most effective way to advance knowledge, maximize the impact of research, and drive forward human progress.
A diversity of approaches is fundamental to achieving this goal. By actively working with research communities, we provide realistic and relevant options for all researchers to publish and share their research outputs openly, regardless of their funding sources.
Discover how our services, policies, and initiatives can help your
institution achieve its open access goals!
Our suite of resources is organized around Four Pillars of Open Access Publishing:
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Ensuring Research Integrity
Learn more about how Taylor & Francis supports research and data transparency through open access publishing solutions.
Our Open Research Position
Explore our commitment to enabling sustainable open research initiatives, and learn how this can benefit your researchers.
Publishing Ethics
Learn more about our commitment to publishing ethics and research integrity.
Our Public Policies
We are devoted to research excellence, transparency, openness and accountability.
Editorial Policies
Find out about our universal journal policies, including authorship, appeals, plagiarism, funding, and peer review.
Editor Guidelines
Review our full list of policies and guidelines relevant to journal editors and authors.
“We commit to working collaboratively and creatively with funders, institutions, researchers and policymakers to drive a sustainable shift towards open research.”
Working in Partnership
We partner with over 745 academic and scholarly societies to help them realize their publishing aspirations. Additionally, our open access partnerships benefit over 950 institutions worldwide.
F1000’s technology is used to support the following Open Research partnerships:
Open Research in EMENA
Taylor & Francis works with top universities and institutions in UK, Europe and the Middle East to help them succeed in open access publishing. We work with individual institutions, funders, and consortia to design the right agreement to meet their open access goals. Find out more about these academic partners on our Open Access Funding site.
Supporting Equity
Learn how Taylor & Francis champions accessibility of essential research to support progress toward a better future.
Our Equity Position
We are committed to supporting all researchers wherever they are based and whatever their circumstances, to develop a broad range of options that best suit their unique contexts.
Pledge to Open
This program aimed to engage a broad community in a collaborative funding approach to allow 70 books to be published Open Access.
Social Justice Hub
Knowledge drives progress. Discover how Taylor & Francis is sharing validated scholarly readings and resources on racial identities, ethnicities, class, and gender topics.
Accessible Features
We are dedicated to ensuring the research that we publish is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. We are always improving the quality and accessibility of our content.
DEI @ T&F
We believe that diversity is a strength. Bringing together a diverse range of people, communities, and opinions is beneficial to everyone – including our customers and the communities we serve.
Pledge to Open – Part II
Taylor & Francis has launched the second year of Pledge to Open, its collaborative funding initiative for open access (OA) books, with additional benefits for pledging institutions. Following the success of the pilot phase, organizations are invited to support seven new book collections on key contemporary themes, including children’s health, AI, and migration.
Subscribe to Open Pilot
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is a burgeoning non-APC open access model that helps convert journals to OA via steady subscriptions from willing, altruistic institutions.
We are proud to pilot S2O with three of our popular publications:
Delivering Impact
Discover how Taylor & Francis open access content has created real-world impact, from global news to policy and patents.
Discover how Taylor & Francis open access content has created real-world impact, from global news to policy and patents.
The Research Impact Hub
Peruse our free resources, commentary, and analysis dedicated to the role of research in policy and public engagement
Measuring Your Research Impact
Researchers, funders, and institutions are increasingly interested in the impact of their work. Use these resources to help you understand what they are and how to use them.
Taylor & Francis’ Open Access Opportunities for Libraries
Taylor & Francis Journals
Open Select & Gold OA
Our open options are designed to inspire researchers to choose open research and to give them credit for doing so.
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F1000
Resources to support open research practices
F1000 is an open research publisher and services provider that enables researchers, funders, research institutions, societies, and associations to accelerate the reach of knowledge.
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PeerJ
Annual Institutional Memberships
Providing guaranteed value, significant cost savings and a reduction in administration, PeerJ Annual Institutional Memberships (AIMs) simplify OA and are an important step towards globally equitable open science
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Dove Medical Press
Open access to scientific and medical research
Dove Medical Press specializes in the publication of open access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and medicine. All papers published with Dove receive rapid, thorough peer review and show article statistics on the article page itself to maximize the impact and discoverability of research.
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Taylor & Francis Open Access Books
Increase the visibility and impact of your institution’s research
Our open access membership program offers you a bespoke solution to support your researchers. They simplify the process for authors and give you: Discounts on book publishing charges (BPCs); more visibility of open access books and chapters from your institution; and tools to raise the profile of your open access research.
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Pledge to Open 2024-2025
Pledge to Open is a collective funding open access model that helps bring libraries together to cooperatively fund their open access pathway without requiring the payment of a Book Processing Charge. This year’s Pledge to Open aims to publish 70 frontlist research titles centered on seven key issue-based collections including Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnological Solutions, Sustainability in Practice, and Migration & Asylum.
By committing to Pledge to Open, your institution will be funding authors and editors from around the globe, including from lower-middle income countries as defined by the World Bank, enabling new books to maximize their reach and impact without requiring authors to have funding to cover OA publishing charges.
Participation in more than one collection is possible and preferential pricing given for those supporting all seven collections.
Pledging institutions receive perpetual multi-user access for the titles of the collections you pledge to support, irrespective of any funding thresholds being met.
Plus, pledging libraries can choose to get complimentary access to 50 backlist titles per collection on a perpetual basis. Your researchers receive more for your budget with access to the collections pledged to and additional titles from Taylor & Francis backlist, broadening the range of titles available for their researchers needs.
The pledging period will run between Sept 2024 and end of June 2025
Retrospective Open Access
Retro OA is flexible arrangement to strategically convert older articles to Open Access, to increase and better showcase their impact and reach.
Benefits of Retro OA
Impact: Retro conversions in T&F journals show an increase in global reach, usage and citations.
Subject specific: Retro conversions can showcase your institution and researchers’ excellency in specific areas. T&F journals are particularly renown in HSS subjects.
Transparency and re-usability: Retro conversions offer you free choice of Creative Commons License and ownership of copyright goes to authors or organizations.
Instant ROI: articles are converted to Open Access immediately.
Meet potential requirements for OA policies and research assessment, such as proportion of OA publications, transparency & research integrity.
Integrates with your T&F OA Fund or Read & Publish Agreement
Optional services available to further boost your Retro article impact.
Resources for OA Champions
We are committed to providing librarians and researchers with the tools and resources they need to champion open access for their university or institution. Feel free to peruse our collection of free resources below:
Knowing me, Knowing UKSG:
An interview with Dr. Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at T&F
Sabina discusses her route from research into publishing, the complexity and challenges of research integrity and the advantages of working together to combat fraudulent publishing.
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The Value of Curated Information
Free white paper available for download
Learn more about how curated information answers researchers’ needs in the Biomedical Sciences as well as the publishers’ role in delivering this crucial service in our new white paper.
Download here
Our Commitment to Open Access
Video & Transcript
In this video, hear from our Head of Open Research, Matthew Cannon and our Director of Open Access, Emma Greenwood, about Taylor & Francis’ Commitment to Open Access
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Open Access: One Goal, Many Pathways
by Rachel E. Scott (Illinois State University) & Michael Fernandez (Yale University)
Despite two decades of growth, open access publishing remains fraught with misconceptions, unrealized benefits, and logistical challenges. In library settings, open access poses opportunity and uncertainty in equal measure and brings to light competing demands for resources.
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Additional Resources
In the fifth episode of our new video series, learn about the work Dr. Sabina Alam does on publishing ethics and integrity. You’ll also find out what “paper mills” are, and how Taylor & Francis is tackling them.