Great news! 

Researchers affiliated with Azusa Pacific University can now publish open access at no or reduced cost to the author through new transformative agreements between Wiley, Cambridge, Springer, American Chemical Society, and Elsevier ScienceDirect, and our library. These agreements are funded by our journal package subscription with these publishers and were negotiated by SCELC, our library consortium.  

For more information about open-access publishing with Wiley, Cambridge, Springer, American Chemical Society, or Elsevier ScienceDirect,  visit https://apu.libguides.com/free_oa_publishing. 

  • As the corresponding author of an article accepted in any of more than 1,897 Wiley hybrid & fully OA journals during 2023, you will be offered the opportunity to retain copyright and choose from one of three creative commons licenses that govern the permitted uses of your open access research or review article. 
  • The list of eligible hybrid journals--subscription-based journals which offer an open-access publishing option--can be downloaded here 
  • Click here for more information on the SCELC agreement or to confirm your eligibility!
  • This agreement secures reading and post-cancellation access to the full package of controlled access Cambridge journals (380 titles in 2023) and provides OA publishing support for an additional 45 gold open-access journals. Publishing rights are guaranteed to all 386 hybrid and gold OA journals, leaving just 19 titles that do not yet support standard OA publication. 
  • The list of eligible full and hybrid journals which offer an open-access publishing option--can be downloaded here 
  • Click here for more information on the SCELC agreement or to confirm your eligibility!
  • The agreement covers open publication of up to 550 articles (in 2023) across all 68 participating institutions, which is roughly 101% of the average number of qualifying articles that participating institutions’ corresponding authors published in those journals over the past 5 years. While it is possible that we will collectively exceed this cap, it is unlikely because the typical author OA opt-out rate is ~10%. 
  • Be accepted for publication in one of 2068 Hybrid titles in Springer All+, Academic Journals on Nature.com, Adis & Palgrave (Excludes Nature-branded and Scientific American titles as well as Springer Fully OA journals and Also excludes 180 third-party titles from Pleiades Publishing)
  • Click here for more information on the SCELC agreement or to confirm your eligibility!
  • Under the agreement, any corresponding author from a subscribing SCELC institution who chooses to publish open access in an ACS journal can pay a discounted APC (article processing charge) of $3,000. Alternatively, those authors who do not have research funds available to pay the $3,000 APC can request full funding of the APC from the collective's ongoing subscription fees, ensuring that the lack of available research funds does not present a barrier for authors who wish to publish open access with ACS. 
  • All 79 subscription-based and fully open-access ACS Journals are available for publication--can be downloaded here 
  • Click here for more information on the SCELC agreement or to confirm your eligibility!
Elsevier ScienceDirect 
  • Under this agreement, SCELC has negotiated a ~cost-neutral 2024-2027 Read & Publish transformative agreement (defined) which leverages existing subscriptions that provide standard institutional access and partial post-cancellation rights to add support for open-access publishing.  It covers unlimited participating institutions’ corresponding author article publication charges (APCs) for ~1630 core 'Freedom Collection' and 170 Specialty hybrid journals and capped APCs for ~685 core fully OA journals. It does not include open publishing in Cell Press or Lancet titles.
  • The agreement is expected to cover open publication of 400+ articles per year for an estimated annual APC avoidance of ~$1.3M+ across 37+ participating institutions regardless of their ScienceDirect access (be it 'College Editions', Subject Collections, 'Unique Title List', 'Freedom Collection', or Subscribed titles only).
  • Click here for more information on the SCELC agreement or to confirm your eligibility!

These publishers report that articles published open access consistently receive a larger readership, a higher number of citations, and a higher Altmetric score than those articles that are not open access.

For a detailed description of these agreements, go to https://apu.libguides.com/free_oa_publishing. 

Please contact us if you have any questions.