Scholarly Publishing

The CMU Libraries has signed transformative agreements with the journal publishers. Under these agreements, the article processing charges (APCs) normally associated with publishing an article in these publishers’ journals are waived. There is no cost to CMU authors upon either submission or publication, and the resulting article will be published in an open format. ... Read more 

American Chemical Society-  CMU has an agreement with the ACS through the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services which allows CMU authors to publish freely and openly in many ACS journals.

Association for Computing Machinery – CMU authors can publish without APCs in the 70 ACM journal from this list. 

Cambridge University Press – CMU authors can publish without charges in more than 400 CUP journals. Follow the prompts at the link to see a list of the journals included in this agreement.

Institute of Physics – CMU authors can publish freely in the more than 50 journals in Lists A, B, and D. 

Publishers often offer discounts or waivers on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing. 

How OA is related APC?

OA refers to the practice of making research articles freely available online. APC is a fee charged to authors to make their work available as open access (OA). This fee may be paid by the author, the author’s institution, or their research funder including APC waiver and discount depending on types of OA. 

Common types of OA for different publishing models

Gold - involves publishing in journals that are fully open access, meaning their content is freely available to anyone from the moment of publication.

Green - involves making a version of a research article (usually the pre-print or post-print) freely available in an open access repository

Hybrid - is where authors pay an APC to make their individual articles open access in a subscription-based journal. This allows a journal to operate with both open access and subscription models

Diamond/Platinum - these journals are free for both readers and authors, meaning there are no APCs or subscription fees. They are often supported by institutions, universities, or research funding bodies.

Bronze publishing articles that are free to read on a publisher's homepage, but without clarity on the specific licenses covering an article due to a temporary publisher marketing campaign.

Open Access models (Gold, Green, Diamond, etc.) are primarily developed and championed by various stakeholders within the scholarly community, including publishers, authors, research institutions, and funders. There isn't a single creator, but rather a collaborative evolution driven by the desire for wider dissemination of research.

• History of Open Access Movement 1991-2021 includes a timeline of important milestones in the history of open access, such as Paul Ginsparg founds the arXiv archive, event though the focus is on events in the German-speaking area.  
• History of open access Wikipedia

Examples of publishers' APC waivers and discounts:

• BioMed Central Article processing charges
  • APC waivers and discounts
• Elsevier Select the publishing model Open access options
• IEE OPEN Article Processing Charges
• MDPI Article Processing Charges (APC) Information
• Oxford Open access publication routes
• Sage Fully (Gold) Open Access journals
• Springer Nature fully open access journals
  • Funders for Open Access articles and books 
  • Green or Gold routes to open access
• Taylor & Francies Open Access Cost Finder
  • What are the gold and green open access publishing options?
  • How to request an article publishing charge discount or waiver
• Wiley Open Access Funds may be able to help with open access Article Publication Charges (APCs) through a Wiley Open Access Account (CMU is not on the list).
  • About Our Gold Open Access Journals
  • Waivers and Discounts 

 A directory of open access indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals, not a repository itself.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. It is committed to ensuring quality content is openly available online for everyone. DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

OAD: Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.