Cambridge University Press

Convert your article to Open Access

If your institution has entered into an open access (OA) publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press, you may be eligible for funding to make your article OA.

If your article has already been published and you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please fill out the form below to submit a retroactive OA request. As the corresponding author, you must have full authority to execute this form on behalf of any co-authors.

If your article has not yet been published, do not submit this form. Please be in touch with your Cambridge production contact for further instructions on publishing your article OA.

Should you have any questions, please visit our FAQs page or email oaqueries@cambridge.org.
Article Details


Please provide your article DOI. This can be found in the information box near the bottom of your article's landing page on Cambridge Core, it is also normally printed in the footer of your manuscript pages.



Your Details


Please use your institutional e-mail address, if possible. This helps us to more easily verify your affiliation with your institution.

Please provide your institutional affiliation as printed on your manuscript.



License Information

All retroactive amendments to your publishing agreement must be facilitated through Ironclad. After submitting this form, you will receive an Information Request Form via e-mail to complete so that an appropriate amendment contract can be generated for your signature. Click here for further guidance on what happens next.

When completing your Information Request Form, please select Open Access publishing and an appropriate Creative Commons License.

CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution License): Allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. This is often the license that is required for journal articles by some funders, including cOAlition S or UKRI.


Click here for more information on Creative Commons licenses.

CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike): Allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform and build upon the material for any non-commercial purpose, but the material may not be used for any commercial purpose. If the material is remixed, transformed or built upon, it must be distributed under the same license as the original.


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CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License): Allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. However, the material may not be used for commercial purposes and if you remix, transform or build upon the material these modifications cannot be distributed.


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Your license choice will function as an addendum to the original author publishing agreement for your article, to the extent of updating the publishing format referenced. All other terms of your original author publishing agreement, including warranties, will remain unchanged.
Our OA Queries team will get in touch with you to help identify the method you used to complete your publishing agreement and will provide further instructions.
Eligibility Declaration
To be eligible for funding through our agreements, we require that: 
  • You are the corresponding author of the manuscript.
  • Your manuscript is original research. Eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports or case reports.
  • Your manuscript has been published in a journal included in your institution's chosen collection. Please see our Eligibility Checker Tool for a complete list.
  • Your manuscript was accepted for publication during the terms of your institution's agreement.
  • Your request must be submitted no later than the 31st March of the year after your article's online publication. 

By clicking ‘Accept and Submit’ below, you confirm that you are the corresponding author for the above article, and that you agree to the contractual changes set out in this form on behalf of yourself and any co-authors.