Open access
Open access helps widen the reach of knowledge and raise the visibility of your institution’s work. At Taylor & Francis, we understand the important role librarians and research managers play in shaping open access strategies. We work in partnership with institutions around the world to provide flexible, sustainable solutions that support your researchers throughout the publishing process.
How we support you as an open access partner
Access to trusted knowledge
Our open access tools and resources help you support researchers across all disciplines. They can find trusted content, share data and code, and publish their work open access within a transparent and reliable research environment.
Boost research visibility
Open access increases the discoverability and visibility of your institution’s research outputs. Making work openly available helps more readers find and use it, creating opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and wider academic impact.
Research integrity
Taylor & Francis combines human expertise with technology to promote transparency and ensure that published research is reliable. Open research supports responsible research practices, and librarians play an essential role in embedding these across their institutions.
Real-world impact
Open research makes trusted knowledge freely available to the people who can use it in real-world settings. This helps research inform policy, practice, and public understanding, enabling meaningful change within and beyond academia.
Open access in action
We work with institutions worldwide to ensure open access delivers meaningful real-world impact. Recent examples show how open research is shaping policy, practice, and visibility across regions.
Open access publishing options in journals
Read & Publish agreements
Read & Publish agreements help institutions shift from paying for subscription access to supporting open access publishing. They cover the publishing costs for eligible authors, which helps more researchers at your institution publish their work open access without paying individual APCs.
Collective pathway to open publishing
A collective model where institutions share the cost of open access publishing. When participation thresholds are met, journals can transition to open access.
Subscribe to open
Libraries support the transition of subscription journals to open access by maintaining subscriptions. When enough institutions participate, content is made freely available to all readers.
Support for APCs
We provide clear guidance on article processing charges so that you can support researchers to publish open access. Many institutions combine APC support with transformative agreements to manage costs more effectively.
Open access publishing options in books
Open access books offer a powerful way to expand the reach and impact of long-form scholarship. Taylor & Francis has published over 3,000 OA books and our expert editorial team can help guide researchers on their next book project.
Pledge to Open
This is a collaborative funding model where libraries work together to support the publication of new OA books in key subject collections.
Open access book funds
Offer simple, flexible support for open access book publishing at your institution. A book fund allows you to budget a certain amount of funds towards OA books and gives you discounts on Book Publishing Charges (BPCs).
Open research practices at Taylor & Francis
Open research, sometimes called open science, aims to make all parts of the research process easier to access and reuse. This includes sharing data, methods, code, preprints and other research outputs. Open research supports transparency and helps build trust in scholarly work.
We work with institutions, funders and societies to help them adopt open research practices. We provide these services through F1000, which offers tailored open access routes for a range of research needs.
Working in partnership
We work closely with universities, funders, and library consortia around the world to support their open access goals. Our partnerships focus on practical collaboration and clear communication, helping you choose the approach that works best for your institution.
Whether you’re developing your open access policy, considering a transformative agreement, or supporting researchers with open access publishing, we’ll help you find the most effective route.
F1000 is an innovative open research publisher and service provider, which joined Taylor & Francis in 2020. Its technology is used to support the following open research partnerships.
Contact our open access team
We’re here to help you choose the right open access solutions for your institution.
Frequently asked questions
What does open access mean?
Open access makes research outputs, including journal articles, books, chapters, data and code, freely available online for anyone to read and reuse. Removing paywalls supports global access to scholarship and wider knowledge exchange.
Open access also supports more transparent research practices, enabling others to scrutinise, verify and build on published work.
Is open access free?
Open access is always free for readers. Publishing open access can involve costs for authors or institutions, typically through article or book processing charges (APCs or BPCs).
Many institutions cover these costs through transformative agreements or dedicated open access funds, helping remove financial barriers for researchers.