Open Access: CSUSB OA Publishing Agreements

CSUSB author-researchers can benefit from Open Access publishing agreements with several scholarly publishers. You may hear these called "Read and Publish" agreements, or "Transformative Agreements."

• ACS (American Chemical Society)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Cambridge University Press
• Elsevier
• IGI Global
• Wiley

Most journal content from these publishers is behind paywalls, although authors may pay a fee to subsidize making their article Open Access (so-called "Gold" Open Access). Under the current agreements, CSUSB authors can make their articles Open Access without having to pay the author fee. This fee is often called an APC (Author Publication Charge or Article Processing Charge). 

If you have questions about any of CSUSB's Read & Publish agreements, contact Jennifer Beamer, Scholarly Communications Librarian jennifer.beamer@csusb.edu.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

ACM's agreement is with the CSU. ACM's goal is to transition to fully OA publishing in December 2025. 

Conditions:

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB (or other CSU) affiliated.
• The article must be original research or a research review. (In other words: things like book reviews and editorials aren’t covered.)

For details, please consult ACM OPEN's information page.

ACS (American Chemical Society)

ACS's agreement is with the CSUs, UCs, and SCELC members. Read ACS's news release.

Conditions:

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB (or other CSU) affiliated.
• The acceptance date for the article must fall between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2025. 
• The ACS model is "Multi-Payer." That is, if you have grant funds available to subsidize the open access fee, you can choose to pay from your grant. If you don't have grant funds, you can ask for the open access subsidy available under the CSU agreement.

For details about how the request process works, please see this UC-created guide about the payment process.

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge's agreement is with subscribing campuses from the SCELC library consortium. 

Conditions:

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB-affiliated.
• The article must 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 2021 through 31 December 2024.
• Details at Cambridge's SCELC Agreement and SCELC's Cambridge Journals Read and Publish Open Access Agreement.

Elsevier

Elsevier's agreement is with the entire CSU system. Read the announcement from the CSU libraries. 

Conditions: 

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB (or other CSU) affiliated.
• The acceptance date for the article must fall between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. UPDATE: The CSU Council of LIbrary Directors has voted to extend the agreement for 3 more years (2025-2027)
• Details at Elsevier’s site.

IGI Global

IGI's agreement is with CSUSB.

Conditions:

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB-affiliated. 
• The acceptance date for the article must fall between Nov. 28, 2023, and November 27, 2024. 

Wiley

Wiley's agreement is with subscribing campuses from the SCELC library consortium.

Conditions:

• The corresponding author of the article must be CSUSB-affiliated.
• The article must be original research or a research review. (In other words: things like book reviews and editorials aren’t covered.)
• The acceptance date for the article must fall between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023.
• UPDATE: The Wiley agreement has been extended for 2024-2026. 
  • The 2024-26 agreement model is "Multi-Payer." That is, if you have grant funds available to subsidize a discounted open access fee, you can choose to pay from your grant. If you don't have grant funds, you can ask for the open access subsidy available under the SCELC agreement.
• Details at SCELC's Wiley "Read and Publish" library guide.