Open Access to Knowledge Publishing Opportunities

In support of Texas A&M research and publishing, Texas A&M Libraries share any negotiated open access publishing opportunities where the costs have been discounted or eliminated through library efforts. This is not an endorsement of any publishing entity as publishing destination decisions are at the discretion of the author(s).

The goals of this initiative are to:

  1. Increase access to Texas A&M research and scholarship.
  2. Support and encourage innovative models of scholarly publishing that take advantage of digital and networking technologies.
  3. Help cover costs for Texas A&M faculty and researchers publishing materials to open-access venues.
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Open Access

  • Full Open Access: Publishers providing immediate and free online access to all peer-reviewed material they publish.
  • "Hybrid" Open Access: Publishers charging subscription or access fees for published material unless authors pay to make only their work freely available in the venue. Many consider this practice to be "double-dipping."

Resources

OAKTrust Repository Submission

Faculty are encouraged to self-submit their work, both published and unpublished scholarly work for deposit into the OAKTrust repository. To find out more about OAKTrust visit the OAKTrust Information page or contact digital@library.tamu.edu.

Read & Publish Programs 

Read & Publish programs are transformative agreements which shift libraries and publishers away from subscription-based models and towards open access publishing. They allow faculty to publish Gold Open Access articles in approximately 375 journals at no additional cost.

The Texas A&M University Libraries participate in “Read & Publish” programs with these publishers:

Cambridge University Press

TAMU authors may publish OA at no cost in journals covered by this agreement. When prompted, please coordinate your APC transaction and seek funding from your institution. Doing so will not impose additional costs on your library. For further information, visit the Texas A&M Library Consortium OA agreement. This agreement covers 397 open access journals for TAMU authors.

Cambridge Next Steps:

  • Submit your research using your institutional affiliation (ideally using ORCID). Please note that eligibility is based on the corresponding author's affiliation.
  • We advise authors to check any funder or institutional mandates, for example research-funded authors may need to choose CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution License).
  • Upon acceptance, choose the Gold Open Access option in your author publishing agreement form and select a creative commons license.
  • To find out more about publishing Open Access please visit our publishing Open Access information page or contact oaqueries@cambridge.org.

The Company of Biologists 

The Company of Biologists publishes 2 fully open access and 3 hybrid subscription journals.

Texas A&M University has a Read and Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists which means uncapped fee-free publishing of Open Access research articles for all corresponding authors under CC BY license terms, with authors retaining copyright. Questions regarding the agreement can be sent to subscriptions@biologists.com.

Microbiology Society

Texas A&M University is participating in a Publish and Read program with the Microbiology Society which allows articles with corresponding authors affiliated with A&M to be published open access at no charge to the author. This applies to all of the Society's journals. More information can be found on the Society's website.

The Royal Society

Texas A&M University has a Read and Publish agreement with The Royal Society that allows A&M faculty to publish Gold Open Access articles in any of publisher’s journals at no cost. More information about the agreement can be found on The Royal Society's website.

Wiley (including Hindawi)

Texas A&M University has a Read and Publish agreement with Wiley. Corresponding authors affiliated with A&M may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal (submitted on or after January 1, 2023) or published open access in a hybrid journal (accepted on or after January 1, 2023). More information can be found on the Wiley Author Services site. Guides for publishing in a hybrid journal and publishing in a fully open journal are also available. The Hindawi journal's author workflow is slightly different. Please note that there is a cap of 240 articles for the year 2023. If/when we reach that cap, we will evaluate our budget to see if we can continue to support further APC fees. 

APC Discounts

BioMed Central APC Discount 

BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-reviewed open access journals.

Texas A&M University is a Supporter Member which means that when you publish in any BioMed Central journal you will receive a 15% discount on the article-processing charge. The discount is automatically applied when BMC sends the invoice for the Author Processing Charge (APC).

Elsevier

Through our Elsevier agreement, our faculty can get a 15% discount on APCs for Gold core Elsevier journals and a 10% discount on APCs for Hybrid core Elsevier journals. Eligible titles include Elsevier-owned hybrid and fully gold journals, with the exception of Cell Press and The Lancet, and certain Society titles. 

MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) 

MDPI currently publishes 393 peer-reviewed journals and is continuously expanding its portfolio.

Texas A&M University is a participating member of Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) which provides TAMU authors a 10% discount on APC, which is automatically applied when the author’s email address is matched to our institution.

Other OA Opportunities

SciPost 

SciPost publishes 13 open access journals with no author fees.