Jisc and Taylor & Francis have signed a renewed and expanded agreement to support UK researchers in publishing open access articles and accessing licensed content. The renewed three-year agreement will support researchers at participating UK institutions to publish open access articles in more than 2,400 journals.
Alongside expanded reading and publishing access, the agreement introduces new features including provisions for artificial intelligence use, optional eBook offerings, open research services, and the conversion of selected journals to full open access.
The open access publishing component covers all research articles published in hybrid and fully open access Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals. Researchers also have the option to publish through F1000’s open research platforms, including F1000Research and Routledge Open Research.
The agreement supports the continued growth of open access in the UK and maintains a key route to open publishing for researchers in disciplines with limited open access funding. Taylor & Francis’s previous agreements with Jisc have contributed to an increase in open access articles within the humanities and social sciences.
The partnership also enables the expansion of Taylor & Francis’s diamond open access collective funding model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing. With sufficient support, several humanities and social sciences journals with a high proportion of UK authors may convert to open access for at least their 2026 volumes, including King’s Law Journal, which is published on behalf of King’s College London. If implemented, researchers worldwide would be able to publish open access in these journals without paying an article publishing charge, supported by the Jisc agreement.
The expanded agreement permits the use of licensed Taylor & Francis proprietary content in connection with artificial intelligence technologies for non-commercial research and educational purposes, with appropriate safeguards. Examples include using AI tools to summarize journal articles for teaching preparation or to generate discussion questions.
Jisc members are invited to review and opt into the agreement. Additional options for participating institutions include significantly discounted premium eBook content and bespoke open research consultation services, such as detailed mapping of researchers’ open research practices, including data sharing, pre-printing, and code sharing, as well as related development opportunities.
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