Open Publishing Program under the OUP Consortium License (Oxford University Press)
Update January 13, 2026: the open publishing program has been closed. List of journals that were included in OUP’s open access publishing program in 2025.
The program will be relaunched in 2026 after the Ministry of Science and Higher Education grants funding for 2026 and after the current agreement is amended. The pool of articles in the program will be unlimited, and the publisher anticipates that articles published under the subscription model during the program suspension period will be able to be converted to the open model.
The program in 2025 included 361 hybrid journals, see list:
https://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2025/OUP/OUP_OA_2025.xlsx
Note: only hybrid journals marked with “yes” in column D of the list were covered by the program.
The program allows publication without charge for authors of OA articles accepted for publication in the current year. The OUP program does not cover fully open access journals, but correspondence authors from covered institutions can enjoy a 10% discount to the APC fee of these journals.
In 2020, the pool of articles was 204, of which 30 were used; in 2021, the pool was 100 articles, of which 62 were used; in 2022, the program included a pool of 70 articles, which was fully used. As of 2023, the program pool is unlimited.
Information about the consortium is also available on the publisher’s website:
Rules of the program operation are available on the website of the Virtual Science Library:
Article submission for the program
Once the article is accepted for publication, the correspondent author completes the online form according to the instructions on the publisher’s website, see also the guide for authors:
https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/online/r&p_author_guide.pdf
The corresponding author should use an email address from the domain of the institution participating in the program, which guarantees that the system will automatically send a request for verification of the article to the consortium administrator.
Contact
Information about the publishing program for the consortium on the publisher’s website:
https://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/read-and-publish-agreements/polish-institutions-icm-consortiumand the publisher’s contact address for publishing matters: jnls.author.support@oup.com.
Contact at SGGW:
Open Science Department Main Library
PhD Agnieszka Adamiec, MSc Dominika Semeniuk, tel. 22 59 35 720; e-mail – otwartanauka@sggw.edu.pl