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Welcome to the University of Exeter Journal Guide
The Journal Guide helps you as a researcher at University of Exeter to identify open access options when publishing in different journals. Search by journal title, keywords or ISSN to discover journals in your research area. Check if journals are included in publisher agreements (discounts, or no APCs).
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BMC Biology
BMC Biology is the flagship biology journal of the BMC series, now incorporating Journal of Biology, the premier biology journal of BioMed Central, and publishes peer-reviewed research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest in any area of biology and biomedical sciences, as well as full reviews, opinion pieces, commentary and Q&As on topics of special or topical interest.
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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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Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Biomedical 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.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Biophysics
BMC Biophysics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in experimental and theoretical aspects of biological processes from the microscopic to macroscopic level, including thermodynamics, structural stability and dynamics, molecular biophysics, signalling, novel biophysical methods and computational biophysics.BMC Biophysics incorporates all content previously published in PMC Biophysics.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Biotechnology
BMC Biotechnology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the manipulation of biological macromolecules or organisms for use in experimental procedures, cellular and tissue engineering or in the pharmaceutical, agricultural biotechnology and allied industries.
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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
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Blood Disorders
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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.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Cancer
BMC Cancer is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cancer research, including the pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancers. The journal welcomes submissions concerning molecular and cellular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and clinical trials.
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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
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the heart and circulatory system, as well as related molecular and cell biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and controlled trials.
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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
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Chemical Engineering
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Chemistry
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Chemistry
Chemistry Central Journal covers research in all areas of chemistry, including analytical, biological, environmental, industrial, inorganic, organic, physical and theoretical chemistry as well as materials science, and is divided into over fifty subject areas.
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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
Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Clinical Pathology
BMC Clinical Pathology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of histopathology, haematology, clinical biochemistry, and medical microbiology (including virology, parasitology, and infection control).
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Clinical Pharmacology
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
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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.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies, with a specific emphasis on research that explores the biological mechanisms of action, as well as their efficacy, safety, costs, patterns of use and/or implementation.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Dermatology
BMC Dermatology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of skin disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Developmental Biology
BMC Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the development, growth, differentiation and regeneration of multicellular organisms, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Digital Health
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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.
Unfortunately, this journal has no Plan-S compliant options - Provided by Journal Checker Tool
Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.
BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders
BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of ear, nose and throat disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Ecology
BMC Ecology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in environmental, behavioral and population ecology as well as biodiversity of plants, animals, and microbes.
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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
There is no agreement between University of Exeter and this journal.
If this is a hybrid journal, select the subscription publishing option and upload your accepted manuscript to ORE. If this is an open access journal, contact the Open Research team before submitting if you need to apply for funding to pay the publishing fees.
BMC Ecology and Evolution
BMC Ecology and Evolution is an open access, peer-reviewed journal interested in all aspects of ecological and evolutionary biology. The journal considers articles on a broad range of topics, including population genetics, conservation genetics, phylogenetics, behavioural ecology, population ecology, macroecology, palaeontology, biodiversity (e.g. environmental DNA approaches), theoretical research (e.g. terraforming) and ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
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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
Institutional Agreement
This journal is eligible for 15% discount to the APC in Springer Nature fully open access journals, when the APC is paid through the institutional prepayment account.Primary corresponding author must have an eligible University of Exeter affiliation.
Eligible article types: original research paper; review paper; brief communication; continuing education. Other article types e.g. protocol papers are not eligible for the discount and incur full price APC.
Contact the Open Research team before you submit, if you need to apply to the central open access funds to pay the discounted APC. Contact us at acceptance if you have funds in a research grant to pay but would like us to facilitate payment through the institutional account, to get the discount.
Check your options for each journal in Exeter's Journal Guide before submitting, to verify whether publishing fees apply. Caution - do not rely on the information provided on the Springer Nature website, which is misleading and does not accurately represent show when publishing fees apply.