Open Access Publishing: Publishing Agreements and Memberships

Corresponding authors at participating institutions can publish articles in ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings as Open Access (OA) with no additional fees.

UNH authors publish in open access and hybrid journals at no cost.

Article processing charges (APCs) will be covered in all hybrid Royal Society of Chemistry journals. Authors will receive a 15% discount on APCs for fully open Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

Member benefits include 15% article processing charge discount for UNH authors. The membership is applicable to BMC and Springer fully open access journals only, and does not apply to any Nature Research, Palgrave, or Springer Nature hybrid open access (Open Choice) journals

Member benefits include 10% discount on article processing and book processing charges for UNH authors.

SPARC advances policies that enable open and equitable systems for research and education. SPARC works closely with decision makers at the local, national, and international levels to align policy and incentive structures to support our vision.” This includes Open Access publishing, Open Data, Open Science, and Open Educational resources. Membership includes monthly membership messages and special reports; access to webinars, calls, and other programing/events; and access to speakers. Potential for Steering Committee membership and input on SPARC’s strategic direction.

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.

ArXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,189,312 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. Benefits include public acknowledgement on site and institutional submission stats.

The original Declaration and guidelines to make research free and available to anyone with internet access and promote advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.

DORA’s mission is to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines.