Publishing open access at LSE

Depositing your work in LSE Research Online is known as Green open access.

• Email us your Author Accepted Manuscript immediately and no later than 3 months after acceptance.
• We’ll make your research open access on publication, under a CC BY licence in accordance with LSE Open Access policy.

What is an "Author Accepted Manuscript"?

It is your own final version, after peer-review and any subsequent edits, but without any copyediting or formatting by the publisher. It is also referred to as a post-print or AAM.

• If the book or chapter is UKRI funded, contact us during the contracting stage via our form.
• Otherwise, email your Author Accepted Manuscript to us and we'll check publisher policies to find out how we can make your research open access.
• From 1 January 2026, monographs, chapters and edited collections will fall under LSE Open Access Policy and can be made open access from LSERO with a Creative Commons licence.

• Send us the details of your publications and we'll add bibliographic records to LSE Research Online.
• If you have the full text, send this to us and we'll make it open access if permitted by the publisher.

We have transformative publishing agreements that allow LSE staff and students to publish open access without paying. Check the list to see if your journal is eligible.

The corresponding author will need to be LSE affiliated (honorary or visiting positions are not eligible) and use their LSE email. Please ensure you select the CC BY licence.

Check these links for information about how to check your eligibility and take advantage of these agreements:

• American Psychological Association
• Association of Computing Machinery
• Brill
• Bristol University Press
• Cambridge University Press
• De Gruyter
• Elsevier
• Oxford University Press
• PLOS (Public Library of Science)
• Sage
• Springer
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley

If you are funded by a UK Research Council you can apply to use the UKRI block grant to cover open access publishing costs.

LSE has an institutional fund to support non-funded researchers to publish their work open access. The fund is limited and requests will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Eligibility criteria may be stricter when the fund is low.

Eligibility criteria

• Only available to staff on research contracts.
• The maximum APC we will pay is £3000 (inc. VAT).
• We will only provide funding to papers submitted to fully open access journals, indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
• CC BY licence must be chosen.

Use this form to apply for open access funding.

• Apply for open access funding