(1 Apr 2026) Taylor & Francis has announced an expansion of its innovative diamond open access (OA) model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), through its agreements with Jisc in the UK and CAUL in Australasia. Collective support has enabled six new journals to open up their 2026 volumes, ensuring researchers worldwide can publish OA without paying an article publishing charge (APC).
Taylor & Francis has created CPOP as a new OA model for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals. It combines funding from OA agreements, support from subscribing institutions, and other read-access fees. Journals are made OA one volume at a time if they receive sufficient support for that year, and authors do not have to pay an APC. It also includes specialist and professional content, such as book reviews, systematic reviews, and practitioner articles, which are important for HSS journals but not included in typical OA agreements.
The new CPOP journals for 2026 are: Australian Archaeology, Contemporary British History, Critical Studies in Education, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, King’s Law Journal and Studies in Theatre & Performance. These journals are all based in either the UK or Australasia, each with a high proportion of authors from those regions.
The announcement in full is here.
