Support for Open Access Article Fees
University Libraries partners with the following publishers and OhioLINK to offer coverage of some types of open access (OA) fees and article processing costs (APC) through our or OhioLINK’s subscription agreements. Each publisher noted below has variations to their OA agreements, so please review their linked author information pages or reach out to your subject librarian.
Tips for OhioLINK APC Waiver Success:
- Not all publishers’ journals are covered in the transformative agreement. Be sure you are submitting to a covered journal. Check all OhioLINK’s OA publishers at their author information page or see below.
- The OhioLINK affiliated author (including Ohio University) needs to be the corresponding author on the manuscript. That is the author who handles the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process.
- For most of the transformative agreement publishers, you will be asked to verify your APC coverage by verifying your OhioLINK affiliation after manuscript acceptance, during the editing process. Use your Ohio University email to submit.
- For some publishers, they will only support APC coverage for so many OhioLINK articles per year. This means there is a cap on how many APC-waived articles from OhioLINK institutions can be published per year. So, if you can submit earlier in the calendar year, the better.
- You do not have to be a faculty member to receive this benefit.
Learn more about choosing a journal or publisher, open access journals, and open access article funding on our Scholarly Research Impact guide.
BioMed Central
Ohio University Libraries OA membership with BioMed Central means researchers affiliated with our institution will receive a 15% discount on all article-processing costs (APC) when publishing in any BioMed Central. Review the submission guidelines for how to request the discount when you submit your manuscript.
Springer & SpringerOpen
Ohio University researchers have two OA APC discounts/waiver options.
- Option 1: Ohio University Libraries OA membership with SpringerOpen journals means researchers affiliated with our institution will receive a 15% discount on all APCs when publishing in any SpringerOpen journal. Review the submission guidelines for how to request the discount when you submit your manuscript.
- Option 2: The OhioLINK transformative agreement allows corresponding authors at OhioLINK member institutions to publish OA journal articles in 2,000 hybrid journals published by Springer at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. To be eligible to publish open access at no cost in a Springer journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution. Read more about the program and who qualifies as a corresponding author on OhioLINK’s Springer OA Information for Authors page.
View the list of hybrid open access journals from Springer.
Cambridge University Press
Authors at OhioLINK member institutions may publish OA journal articles in Cambridge University Press journals at no additional charge to either the author or the institution. To be eligible to publish open access at no cost in a Cambridge journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution. Read more about the program and who qualifies as a corresponding author on OhioLINK’s Cambridge Journals OA Information for Authors page.
Elsevier
Corresponding authors at OhioLINK member institutions may publish OA journal articles in 1,800+ hybrid journals published by Elsevier at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. To be eligible to publish open access at no cost in an Elsevier journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution. Read more about the program and who qualifies as a corresponding author on OhioLINK’s Elsevier OA Information for Authors page.
You can search for eligible journals using Elsevier's journal finder tool for the OhioLINK agreement.
IOP (Institute of Physics)
Corresponding authors from OhioLINK institutions are eligible to publish original research and review articles open access at no cost to either the author or the institution in all journals that participate in IOP's transformative agreements, including most of its fully open access and hybrid open access journals. Read more about the program on OhioLINK’s Information for Authors site.
Wiley
Authors at OhioLINK member institutions may publish in all of Wiley’s hybrid or fully open access journal from Wiley, including Hindawi-owned journals, at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. To be eligible to publish open access at no cost in a Wiley journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution. Read more about the program and who qualifies as a corresponding author on OhioLINK’s Wiley OA Information for Authors page.
View the list of hybrid open access journals from Wiley.
Company of Biologists
Authors at Ohio University may publish OA journal articles in the five Company of Biologists journals through our “Read & Publish” agreement. The agreement allows unlimited access to three hybrid journals and uncapped immediate fee free Open Access publishing of research for corresponding authors. Corresponding authors are identified automatically by the publisher. Ohio University Libraries pays one annual fee that covers reading and uncapped publishing. More information can be found on the Company of Biologists Read & Publish website.