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SCELC's OUP Read and Publish Agreement

Kathi Carlisle Fountain Head of Business Development

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Laura Arbogast

Regional Sales Manager, West

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Alex Marchbank

Manager, OA Strategy

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10 March 2025

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About the Agreement

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  • Hybrid and Fully Open Access Journals Included
  • 60+ institutions across the CSU, UC, and SCELC consortia
  • Will cover 1,250 articles
  • Custom – and complex! - pricing and licensing
  • Will expand, retain, and realign library spend on Oxford Journals for the future
  • Library Spend, $3.8m

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  • 1st Oxford multi-payer agreement

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  • Hybrid Journals
    • APCs eligible for $1000 “subvention” for funded authors
    • Agreement covers APCs in entirety if authors have no funding

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  • Fully Open Access Journals
    • All APCs eligible for $750 "subvention"
    • Authors pay any remaining fees

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  • Author Spend, $1.6m in hybrid and fully OA

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California Read and Publish Agreement, 2025-2028

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Workflow

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Deal overview

  • Authors publishing in hybrid journals are eligible for either:
    • a $1000 subsidy payment towards the cost of their article’s APC
    • or full funding to cover the entire APC, if no funding is available
  • All authors publishing in fully OA journals will receive a $750 subsidy payment towards the cost of their APC

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Author emailed link to SciPris portal

Author directed to choose a license

Author agrees license to publish their article and follows one of two routes:

Author submits request for full payment via agreement (hybrid only)

Request reviewed and approved. Payment finalised.

Author receives subsidy from institution and arranges payment for the remainder of the charge (hybrid and fully OA journals)

Preparation

Submission

Peer Review

Acceptance

Production

Publication

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Hybrid workflow

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Acceptance

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Welcome

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Sign In

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Choose your License

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Arrange Payment: subsidy only

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Arrange Payment: full funding requested

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Author Workflow – Verification of Eligibility (full funding request only)

If the request for funding is accepted, the Author receives a confirmation email

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If the request is rejected the Author receives an email with an explanation

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Fully OA workflow

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Acceptance, welcome and log in

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Choose your License

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Arrange payment for the residual amount

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Where can I find more information?

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FAQ’s

  • An author at my institution is a society member and is eligible for a discount on the APC. How does this affect the subsidy payment?
  • The membership discount will be applied in addition to the subsidy payment so the author should therefore see two reductions against the total APC
  • An author publishing in a hybrid journal made a mistake when selecting their payment route. Can they change this?
  • If payment hasn’t been made then we can help. Please contact jnls.author.support@oup.com for further assistance
  • An author at my institution is being presented with a different workflow. Who should we contact?
  • Please get in touch with us at jnls.author.support@oup.com

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SCELC Resources

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https://scelc.libguides.com/oupRPOAA

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Communications

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California R&P Agreement: In The News

  • Press Release has been shared across multiple media outlets and has been picked up by:

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        • Charleston Hub
        • STM Publishing News
        • KnowledgeSpeak

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        • Social Media: announcements posted to Facebook, LinkedIn, and X

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        • SCELC announcement on SCELC News

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        • OUP promotional email outlining the features of the deal: sent to librarians at participating CDL, CSU, and SCELC member institutions on February 25th

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        • OUP Outreach to Authors: HUM Communications inform potential authors of opportunities to publish under the R&P agreement

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        • Additional communications coming soon:

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        • OUP and CDL, CSU and SCELC are collaborating on blog post on OUPblog

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        • OUP and CDL are planning a joint LIBLICENSE listserv post

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HUM Communications: How They Work

  • To encourage article submissions as part of OUP Read and Publish deals, we display prompts to readers at institutions covered by the agreements when they visit the Oxford Academic site
  • Identification happens through cookies and IP address information
    • Prompts only display to users who have opted in to cookies
    • Prompts only display when users visit relevant journal pages, and are not displayed on ineligible titles

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HUM Communications: Examples

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Fully OA journals

Hybrid journals

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Thank you !

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