Open access
Open access
At Edinburgh University Press, our mission is to connect people and ideas. Open Access (OA) plays an essential role in this mission, as it allows readers all over the world to access the scholarship that we publish without paying a fee. We offer four routes to OA: diamond, gold, transformative agreements and green.
Diamond Open Access
Diamond OA means that neither authors nor readers are charged a fee. Edinburgh University Press provides diamond funding from our own cash reserves for a number of publishing projects that are central to our publishing mission, and are proud to acknowledge our other diamond funding partners.
Books Diamond OA initiatives
Edinburgh University Press Open Access Fund
Edinburgh University Press has launched a £250,000 project to publish OA editions of 50 research publications by University of Edinburgh staff, funded from EUP’s own cash reserves. These books are publishing 2023–28 in both print and digital formats.
Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy series
This monograph series reassesses the urban political economy from transdisciplinary and marginalised perspectives. Diamond OA funding is provided by Edinburgh University Press.
- Visit the Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy series homepage to download the ebooks or find out more about submitting your proposal
Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers series
The Visionaries book series explores the visual style of women filmmakers through a Film-Philosophy approach. Diamond OA funding is provided by Edinburgh University Press.
- Visit the Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers series homepage to download the ebooks or find out more about submitting your proposal
Journals Diamond OA initiatives
Research4Life: low- and-middle-income countries
Edinburgh University Press waives the APC for journal articles written by first authors based in Research4Life Group A Countries. In addition, Edinburgh University Press subsidises the APC for articles written by a first author based in a Research4Life Group B Country to offer a substantial discount for Gold OA.
- See the list of Research4Life Group A and B Countries on the Research4Life website
- Find out more about publishing your journal article with Edinburgh University Press
- Find out more about our low- and middle-income countries initiative
Studies in World Christianity – Walls–Bediako Memorial Article
In 2024, Studies in World Christianity journal launched the Walls-Bediako Memorial Article to publish an article written by an author from the majority world offering original research on any subject within the broad discourse of World Christianity. The article will be published Open Access with the APC being covered by Edinburgh University Press.
Film-Philosophy journal
The Film-Philosophy journal published diamond OA 1997–2024 thanks to funding from the University of Edinburgh. This funding expires at the end of 2024 and the journal will be moving to a Subscribe to Open model from 2025, but all previously funded volumes will remain OA in perpetuity.
Gold Open Access
Where departments have funding to support OA, or where a funding body requires, authors can pay a fee to have their book, chapter or article published OA.
- Find out more about OA for book and chapter authors
- Find out more about OA for journal article authors
Transformative agreements
Subscribe to Open (S2O)
A growing number of our journals are published on the S2O model, where libraries subscribe in the usual way and, if a set subscriptions revenue threshold is reached, that year’s journal volume is flipped to Open Access.
OpenUP
OpenUP is a collaborative project between 6 UK university presses to secure OA funding for first monographs by UK-based early career researchers. Libraries subscribe on a banded basis and their participation funds open access for the selected books.
Two Edinburgh University Press books have been funded through OpenUP:
- Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot by Holly Langstaff
- Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850 by Corrina Readioff
OpenUP is part of the JISC Open Access Community Framework (OACF).
Green Open Access
Books Green OA
Monograph authors and authors of chapters published in edited collections can take part in our green open access policy. This allows you to place the accepted manuscript of your book or chapter into specified repositories after an embargo period.
Journals Green OA
All Edinburgh University Press journals are published on a green open access basis. This permits authors to deposit the 'accepted manuscript' version of their article in their institutional repository with no embargo. Authors may also deposit the accepted manuscript version in a non-commercial disciplinary repository after an embargo period. This policy complies with all current funding body mandates on green OA publishing/self-archiving.