Cambridge University Press publishes an array of academic journals across the humanities, social sciences and sciences, technology and medicine.
As part of a groundbreaking agreement with Cambridge, GW authors can now enjoy waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) when publishing in certain hybrid and gold open access journals. Discover more about this groundbreaking arrangement by exploring this link.
CUP Archive
The CUP Archive is an unparalleled, high-quality online resource which contains 171 Cambridge journals dating back to 1827. It can be accessed in its entirety or as either a humanities and social sciences package or science, technology and medicine package.
Cambridge University Press made a significant investment in their archive, which houses over 230 journals they publish themselves and for learned societies. Over two years, they were scanned and then digitalised – creating an extensive library of searchable PDFs with digital object identifiers (DOIs) attached to each article.
This archive is the first of its kind and has been celebrated as a major milestone in journal publishing. It consists of three million scanned pages from 350,000 articles across 20,000 journals, all searchable and indexed. It provides an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers and librarians alike; furthermore it serves as evidence that digital technologies are revolutionizing how information is shared, accessed and preserved.
CUP Full Journals Package
With an illustrious 425 year legacy of publishing success, CUP stands as a beacon for excellence within academia.
CUP has been striving to create a comprehensive digital archive of all journals it publishes, with articles dating back to 1827. This project took two years and involved collaboration with partner societies and institutions in order to guarantee accurate scanning at high quality across all journals.
Authors authorized to utilize CUP’s’read and publish’ agreement will be able to publish open access articles in most journals under this arrangement without paying any transactional article processing charges (APCs). The agreement aligns with future federal funding requirements for open access publications, which require taxpayer-funded research be accessible immediately regardless of publisher. Moreover, open access publishing has been cited three times more frequently than subscription publications within their first year of publication.
Read & Publish
Read & Publish provides academic researchers with access to over 400 journals published by Cambridge University Press, including esteemed titles like American Political Science Review, Journal of Global History and British Journal of Nutrition.
Cambridge University Press offers read and publish deals for original research articles (eligible types include research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case studies), which must then be accepted for publication in one of their covered journals.
Researchers can use the Open Access Waivers & Discounts tool to determine if their articles qualify for a Read and Publish deal from Cambridge. This will assist them in determining if they have sufficient resources to cover Cambridge’s article processing fees.
In addition to the journals covered under this agreement, the Libraries have also reached agreement on several Read and Publish deals with publishers across a range of disciplines. These arrangements are an integral part of their mission to promote open access.
Open Access
Open access ensures research outputs such as journal articles can be freely read and used by everyone, eliminating subscription prices or paywalls. It also gives researchers a larger audience for their work, encouraging more readers, potential collaborators and citations that in turn increase recognition and career prospects.
Open Access is the practice of making published research online, either immediately or after a specific period. This usually occurs through a license that permits reuse by others, such as Creative Commons license.
Open access has many advantages, and funders increasingly demand it. They recognize the positive effect free access to research has on society, and want their funding to have maximum effect.
