Open Access

Depending on the journal and/or publisher there will be a partial discount or a 100% discount for the Article Processing Charge (APC). This is known as a Transformative Agreement that are agreements negotiated between institutions such as libraries and publishers that enables authors to publish their research as Open Access.

Publisher discounts for USI authors available are below in this research guide:

• Cambridge University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry

Need assistance? Contact Peter Whiting, Scholarly Communicaiton Librarian, pwhiting@usi.edu

USI faculty can publish open access articles for no cost in any hybrid or gold open access (OA) or gold open access (OS) Cambridge University Press journals.

• More information about open access at Cambridge Open Access. 

• Use the Cambridge Eligibility Checker on which journals and articles for eligible funding support.

• USI has entered into a transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) in association with the Midwestern Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) to support Open Access publishing.

Learn all about open access publishing in how it works and why it matters at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Finder will let you know which journals that he USI open access agreement covers.

• Choose Select Institution.
• Enter University of Southern Indiana (US). 
• The list of journals includes the Creative Commons license agreement. Need more information about the Creative Commons license then visit the Rice library Copyright Decision Tree research guide.