Healey Library Statement on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The Healey Library is committed to taking action and making changes as we identify them in order to improve the working and studying environment.
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If you choose to make your publication open access, some journals may require the author to pay an article processing charge (APC), or publication fee. This fee can cost up to several thousand dollars, depending on the journal. Publishers justify the charge as necessary to cover their publishing costs. Some publishers provide a waiver or discount request for authors. A great place to review Article Processing Charge information is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. |
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Author charges waived or discounted to publish Open Access The Healey Library's transformative (read-and-publish) agreements and support of subscribe-to-open (S2O) initiatives allow UMB corresponding authors to publish their articles open access at no cost (or, in select cases, at a reduced cost) with the following publishers: ACM Journals (Association for Computing Machinery) UMB corresponding/lead authors can publish open access in all ACM conference proceedings and journals (not books or book chapters) with no APC fees. Authors retain their copyright. After acceptance, authors will receive a link to the ACM Open Author eRights platform where they can choose "Institutionally Paid Open Access / Permissions Release." More information about their journals and their open access publishing process can be found on their website https://dl.acm.org/journals Cambridge University Press Any UMB faculty, staff or student who is the corresponding author can publish open access in Cambridge University Press journals without paying an APC. More information about their journals and their open access publishing process can be found on their website:https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/publishing-open-access . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Any UMB faculty, staff or student who is the corresponding author can publish open access in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press journals without paying an APC. More information about their journals and their open access publishing process can be found on their website: https://www.cshl.edu/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-press/journals/transformative-agreements/. Company of Biologists Any UMB faculty, staff or student who is the corresponding author can publish open access in Company of Biologists journals Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology without paying an APC. More information about their journals and their open access publishing process can be found on their website: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/guide-for-authors/ IOP (Institute of Physics) A two-year transformative agreement allows UMB corresponding authors to publish open access with no fee. More information about their journals and their open access publishing process can be found on their website: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/researchers-from-the-united-states/ The Royal Society A one-year agreement between UMB and the Royal Society grants a 25% discount on the standard Article Processing Charge. This is available for all current UMB faculty and students who want to publish their articles Open Access in any Royal Society journals. More information about their journals and their open access process can be found on their website: https://royalsociety.org/journals/open-access/ Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) UMB has a Subscribe to Open (S20) agreement with SCOAP3 that allows UMB authors to publish journal articles Open Access at no cost. More information about the specific journals and submission process can be found on their website: https://scoap3.org/phase3-journals/#costperarticle University of Toronto Press UMB has a Subscribe to Open (S20) agreement with University of Toronto Press that allows UMB lead authors to publish open access articles in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy at no cost. More information about the journal and submission process can be found on their website: https://jccpe.utpjournals.press/. Wiley UMB has a Read and Publish Agreement with Wiley starting January 1, 2024 that allows UMB corresponding authors to publish open access articles in Wiley's Gold or Hybrid Journals, including Hindawi Journals. The agreement includes a set number of author APC payment waivers for the year. Please contact Christine Moynihan with questions. More information about the journals and submission process can be found on their website: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/institutional-funder-payments.html.
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The Subscribe to Open (S2O) publishing model makes publishing free to all authors. There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) for publishing in S2O journals regardless of whether the Healey Library supports a particular APC initiative.
More info about S2O journals, including a list of Open Access journals using the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model can be found on the Simmons Library Open Access Wiki: https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Subscribe_to_Open_(S2O)_journals
Questions? Contact Christine Moynihan, Scholarly Communications, Data, & Affordable Learning Librarian.
