Data Management and Research

Two types of transformative agreements that we have signed institutional contracts for are Subscribe to Open (S2O) and Read & Publish (R&P). These agreements allow UND faculty, students, staff, etc. to publish at no cost. While it may still be going the for-profit publisher route, these agreements minimize or eliminate the financial burden that arises with Author/Article Processing Charges (APCs). These are often Open Access, but not always.

Affiliates of UND with a @UND.edu email address are eligible to submit publications under these licenses, unless otherwise specified.

We have signed agreements with the following publishers:

Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement, which converts new volumes to open access with sufficient support from enough subscribers. Continued support is required for journals to remain open on a year-to-year basis.
Our read access covers most journals in the Science Collection.

Allows UND authors to publish Open Access without additional cost in any Cambridge UP titles. Researchers can also retroactively change the status of their article to Open Access.

Allows UND corresponding authors to publish their articles open access with The Company of Biologists at no additional cost to themselves or UND. This agreement is part of UND's license with The Company of Biologists and has been added to the subscription package at no additional cost.

UND corresponding authors can publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in 500+ OUP fully and hybrid OA journals. Articles will be published under a Creative Commons license.

Excludes Nature journals, some BioMed Central (BMC) journals, and gold open access titles, but covers thousands of their hybrid open access journals.