Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and Taylor & Francis, a leading academic publisher, have signed a new three-year read-and-publish agreement that expands the breadth of journals available to Vanderbilt researchers and enhances the potential reach and impact of their published work. Under the agreement, corresponding authors based at the university can publish open access (OA) in 2,500 journals—both hybrid and fully OA—from Taylor & Francis and its Routledge imprint.
As Vanderbilt researchers have increased their publishing activities with Taylor & Francis over the past five years, demand for OA has grown most rapidly among its humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals, where authors typically struggle to find funder support for article publishing charges, or APCs. Through this new agreement, Vanderbilt researchers will benefit from significantly increased access to Taylor & Francis’ leading HSS collection of more than 1,400 titles published by Routledge, as well as journals dedicated to science, engineering, healthcare, and other disciplines.
Vanderbilt joins more than 700 global institutions partnering with Taylor & Francis through a transformative agreement, including 11 others in the Americas. Researchers in need of assistance should direct questions to Vanderbilt’s subject librarians.
Taylor & Francis is a leading OA publisher, with a program that includes over 300 fully OA journals, including 25 diamond OA titles, more than 2,490 Open Select (hybrid) journals, 1,700+ OA books, and a range of F1000 open research platforms in partnership with organizations that include Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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