Publishing open access at LSE
Open up research for the world
We support multiple routes to open access for all publications types, allowing you to maximise the impact of your research and meet any funder requirements.
Making your journal articles open access at LSE is simple and supported by LSE Library. This flowchart outlines the routes available to authors.
- First, check if your journal is included in a transformative agreement, if it is, confirm your eligibility with the publisher so the article is published Gold OA.
- If not, check if the journal is fully open access and included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. If it is, you can apply to us for Gold OA funding.
- Otherwise, deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript and we will make it open access with a CC BY licence in accordance with LSE Open Access Policy.
Deposit publications in LSE Research Online
Depositing your work in LSE Research Online is known as Green open access.
- Deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript at the point of acceptance and no later than the date of first online publication.
- 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.
- Otherwise, deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript 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.
Publish Gold open access
We support LSE researchers to publish their work Gold open access in a number of ways.
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:
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
- The fund is prioritised for research staff and staff eligible to submit their publications to REF.
- 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.
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