Research Guides: Open Access: UND CFL Transformative Agreements

Overview

Read and Publish Agreements – contracts between academic institutions and publishers that shift the traditional subscription-based model to one that supports open access publishing. Under these agreements, institutions pay a combined fee that covers both the cost of accessing subscription content and the APCs for their authors’ open access publications.

Subscribe to Open (S2O) Agreements – In this type of agreement, academic libraries use their journal subscription funds to support the journal transition to open access.

Have questions? Contact Brittany Fischer, Scholarly Communications Librarian at CFL.

Open Access Read & Publish Agreements

Looking for a specific journal? Use SciFree and see if it's covered!

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Covers all ACM Digital Library articles, including research articles, review articles, and conference or proceedings papers.

List of eligible ACM publications here.

Cambridge University Press
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.

List of eligible Cambridge University Press journals here

The Company of Biologists
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.

The five journals covered are :

IOP Publishing
As a participating institutions, we receive full access to the IOPScience Extra journal package (including more than ninety scholarly journals) as well as unlimited gold OA publishing by UND corresponding authors in IOP's gold and hybrid journals.

List of eligible journals here.

Note our agreement covers eligible journals in Lists A, B, D.

Oxford University Press
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.

List of eligible journals here.

Note Oxford University Press publishes both non-OA, fully OA, and Hybrid OA. If the journal has an OA option, this agreement will cover it.

Royal Society of Chemistry
Enables all corresponding authors affiliated with UND to publish open access (OA) in more than 40 RSC scholarly journals, both fully OA and hybrid, with no publishing fees or limits on OA articles published. Authors who publish OA under this agreement can publish under a CC BY or CC BY-NC open license.

List of eligible Royal Society of Chemistry journals can be found here.

Springer Nature
Covers hybrid open access Springer Nature journals. The agreement includes over 2,000 hybrid journals from Springer, Palgrave, Nature Academic, and ADIS, but would exclude Nature branded journals and BioMedCentral (BMC) journals.
Taylor & Francis
This agreement with the University of North Dakota combines continued access to Taylor & Francis journals with the opportunity for University of North Dakota researchers to publish open access in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Select titles.

List of eligible Taylor and Francis journals here.

S2O Agreements

Annual Reviews – converts new volumes to open access once they have determined sufficient subscription funding has been achieved. Their model does not require any author fees. They have seen article usage double or triple after conversion to open access.

Open Library of Humanities (OLH) - OLH is a diamond open access publisher, which means they leverage community support to the publisher's financial operations. This means authors do not need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC), and readers do not need to pay a subscription fee to access articles.