Taylor and Francis has expanded its diamond open access model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), through agreements with Jisc in the United Kingdom and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) in Australasia.
That collective support has enabled six new journals to make their 2026 volumes open access, allowing researchers worldwide to publish open access without paying an article publishing charge (APC), with APC expanded here as article publishing charge.
Taylor and Francis created Collective Pathway to Open Publishing as an open access model for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals, with HSS expanded here as Humanities and Social Sciences. The model combines funding from open access agreements, support from subscribing institutions, and other read-access fees.
Journals are made open access one volume at a time when they receive sufficient support for that year, and authors do not pay an article publishing charge. The model also includes specialist and professional content, including book reviews, systematic reviews, and practitioner articles, which are important for Humanities and Social Sciences journals but are not included in typical open access agreements.
The new Collective Pathway to Open Publishing journals for 2026 are Australian Archaeology, Contemporary British History, Critical Studies in Education, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, King’s Law Journal, and Studies in Theatre & Performance.
These journals are based in either the United Kingdom or Australasia, and each has a high proportion of authors from those regions. The addition of these titles supports the open access transition in portfolios such as Arts & Humanities and Education, which are widely published in by researchers affiliated with Jisc and the Council of Australian University Librarians.
In 2025, 81 percent of open access research in Arts & Humanities journals and 73 percent in Education journals was funded by an agreement. In addition, Nordic Psychology and Nordic Social Work Research, which were converted to open access in the first year of Collective Pathway to Open Publishing, met the thresholds required to remain open access for 2026. Those journals published 71 open access articles in their 2025 volumes and recorded a combined readership of more than 43,500 downloads after conversion in April 2025.
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