Library Guides: UM Open Access Publishing with Transformative Agreements: Introduction

What is a tranformative agreement?

Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services.

(Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges, ESAC)

Why Open Access?

Open Access can bring about various benefits:

More exposure for your work
Practitioners can apply your findings
Higher citation rates
Your research can influence policy

The public can access your findings
Compliant with grant rules
Taxpayers get value for money
Researchers in developing countries can see your work

Source: Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown via Australian Open Access Strategy Group

Tranformative Agreements between UM and Publishers

The UM Library has entered into open access publishing agreements with various publishers and organizations. Eligible UM authors can publish their journal articles in OA mode free of charge with the following publishers and organizations:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) American Chemical Society (ACS) Cambridge University Press (CUP) IOPScience (IOP) Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC) Wiley

Who is eligible?

The benefit of this OA publishing are available to all UM staff and students, provided that
- The corresponding author of the manuscript must be either an UM staff or student.
- The UM affiliation must be used by the author for manuscript submission.
- The author is affiliated with UM at the time of paper acceptance.

When does the agreement period start?

From 1 Jan 2023: Cambridge University Press
From 1 Jan 2024: ACM, ACS, IOPscience, RSC, Wiley

How to apply?

Please refer to the Publishing Procedure of this guide.

What journals are included in the OA agreements?

Click HERE to view the complete list of journals included in the agreements. This list may change based on the individual publisher. Please refer to the respective publisher section in this guide for the most up to date information.

OA Publishing Quota Remains for 2024

ACM :	Unlimited
ACS :	10 / 27Articles
CUP :	Unlimited
IOP :	Unlimited
RSC :	4 / 10 Articles
WILEY :	12 / 72 Articles

(Updated on 4 October 2024)

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