Open Access Publishing Opportunities for APSU Faculty Members and Students: APSU Publishing Agreements (Publish OA without Fees)

APSU is one of the 120 institutions the are participating in the transformative agreement between Springer Nature and Lyrasis. This means means that authors affiliated with APSU are eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. 

To be eligible, authors must:

• You must be the corresponding author of the article.
• You must be affiliated with a participating institution.
• You must identify yourself during the author identification process (you will be asked to do this once your article has been accepted for publication).

The copyright remains with you: your open access article will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY/ CC BY-NC) license – you are free to redistribute the material in any medium or format.

More Info:

• Guide for Authors (who wish to publish OA under this agreement)
• Additional information for authors (including FAQs, video on the eligibility process, and case studies).
• List of eligible hybrid journals (Excel)  that are included in the agreement.

APSU authors can publish their articles Open Access at no cost in gold and hybrid journals.

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have a corresponding author affiliated with a participating institution as listed above.
• Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
• Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal covered by the agreement.
• Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2023

More Info:

• Use the CUP eligibility checker tool to select APSU and see a list of over 400 journals where you can publish OA.  APSU also has access to read all of these titles through our agreement. See Cambridge University Press Journals (Full Collection).
• View a Canva presentation on how to publish open access under this agreement
• View a step-by-step guide to publishing your article open access (PDF) under a Cambridge transformative agreement.