Publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that its Open Select programme will include the majority of journals featured in the Taylor & Francis and Routledge portfolios from January 2013. The number of journals included in the 'hybrid' open access (OA) programme, Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select, will more than double from 700 to over 1,600 titles, primarily due to the addition of the majority of the Routledge journals portfolio.
The company believes that adding social science, arts and humanities journals to the Open Select programme will provide important venues for scholars in these fields who wish to publish in highly-regarded journals on an OA basis. The publisher will offer authors the choice to pay to make their research OA upon payment of an Article Publishing Charge (APC), or to publish without the APC, whereby research is available for individuals and institutions to purchase.
Taylor & Francis is working with RCUK and the Wellcome Trust to ensure that the journals will be compliant with their mandates when they come into place from April 2013. It is also taking the same steps to be compliant with the European Commission's ruling around Horizon 2020 research.
In addition to Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select, the company currently publishes under 20 Open Access titles as part of the Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open programmes. All papers published in these journals are made OA upon publication, and an APC applies (waivers are available to authors in developing countries). For Taylor & Francis-owned Open titles, it will enable authors to sign a Creative Commons Attribution licence (known as CC-BY).
