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

APSU currently participates in transformative agreements with the following publishers:

• ACM
• Cambridge University Press
• Springer Nature

Please see the boxes below for details on each agreement and how to publish OA without author fees.

Corresponding authors at APSU can publish articles in ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings as Open Access (OA) with no additional fees for a three-year fixed term. Authors retain copyright to their articles and can opt to publish using a Creative Commons license (default CC BY). ACM will also deposit copies of these new OA articles into institutions' repositories for open sharing, including for non-corresponding authors. Library patrons will continue to have full read/subscription access to the content in the ACM Digital Library. OA publishing is unlimited and pricing is fixed during the term of the agreement.

All ACM publications are covered under this agreement, including journals, magazines, conference proceedings. Details on eligible journals and a list of exceptions is provided on this ACM webpage.

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have a corresponding author affiliated with APSU
• Be original content
• Have a manuscript accepted for publication

More info:

• This ACM Open Guide (PDF) explains the experience when an author chooses to publish OA in an ACM conference or journal.
• Visit ACM's Information for Authors page for info on how to submit, author rights, and more
• View details about the ACM Open Transformative Agreement here

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.

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.