The Jisc-Approved Transformative Journal List

Transformative journals (TJs) are subscription/hybrid journals that commit to transitioning to full open access. The requirements for TJs have been set by UK higher education (HE) and research institutions and endorsed by the UUK Jisc content negotiation strategy group.

Requirements for Jisc-approved Transformative Journals

  • To be a Jisc-approved TJ, a journal must first meet the Plan S Criteria for Transformative Journals and have been approved for Plan S TJ status.
  • In addition, the journal must be included within a Jisc Transitional Agreement (TA) and/or allow authors to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in a repository without embargo and under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
  • This latter requirement should be extended to all authors where possible, though Jisc-approved TJ status may still be attainable for publishers providing this to a subset of authors only (such as those whose funders require it).
  • Further details on requirements for Jisc-approved TJs can be found on our open research pages.

[Download the Jisc-approved TJ list]
List generated 2023-05-25

The Jisc-approved TJs list is compiled weekly and the exact date on which the most recent version of the list was created can be found beneath the download link.

If you have concerns that a journal/publisher on this list is failing to meet its obligations as a Jisc-approved TJ, for example through hidden charges, convoluted workflows, and/or unclear author-facing communications, please contact help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk.

If you wish to check whether a particular title is a Jisc-approved TJ, you can now do this by consulting the Sherpa record for the individual title rather than scanning the entire list. We have added a new 'TJ Status' field within the 'Publication Information' section of the record, which clearly states whether a journal is a Jisc and/or Plan S approved TJ. If the TJ Status field is absent from the record, then the journal is not a TJ.

Journal information showing TJ Status field
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