If you have questions regarding the Open Access agreements, please contact Brittany Fischer, Scholarly Communications Librarian at CFL.
Read and Publish Agreements – these agreements allow UND faculty to publish OA at no additional cost. They also allow the authors to keep their copyright.
While it’s still going the for-profit publisher route, these agreements minimize or eliminate the financial burden to faculty that arises with Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Covers all ACM Digital Library articles, including research articles, review articles, and conference or proceedings papers.
List of eligible publications here.
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
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.
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 :
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.
Subscribe to Open (S2O) Agreements – In this type of agreement, academic libraries use their journal subscription funds to support the journal transitioning to open access.
Annual Reviews – converts new volumes to open access once they have determined sufficient funding through subscriptions has been achieved. Their model does not require any author fees. They have seen article usage double or triple after conversion to open access.
Other Agreements Supporting Open Access Publishing
Astronomy & Astrophysics offers a 10% discount on page charges for UND authors.
American Chemical Society - authors publishing their manuscript as open access in an ACS hybrid journal that are affiliated with the University of North Dakota are eligible to receive a $250 affiliation discount. This discount will be automatically applied to the open access order, if applicable.