UM Open Access Publishing with Transformative Agreements: Introduction

Limited APC Quota

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC)
• Wiley

Unlimited APC Quota

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• IOPScience (IOP)

Publish OA articles free of charges with UM quota

UM authors can publishing Open Access articles at no cost through transformative agreements with the following publishers / organizations.

American Chemical Society (ACS), starts from 2024.

27

(first come, first serve)

• Journal List (ACS website)
• Journal List (Excel File)

• Guide for Authors

Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC), starts from 2024.

11

(The OA publishing allocations for the year 2025 have been fully utilized.)

• Journals List (Hybrid Journals Only)

• Guide to article licensing as a Read & Publish author

Wiley, starts from 2024.

73

(The OA publishing allocations for the year 2025 have been fully utilized.)

• Wiley Hybrid Journals
• Wiley Fully Open Access Journals

• Guide for publishing OA article in a Wiley hybrid journal
• Guide for publishing OA article in a Wiley fully open access journal

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), starts from 2024.

Unlimited

All ACM conferences, journals, and magazines, for which ACM manages production and rights, are eligible for Open Access publishing.

• ACM Journals
• ACM Magazines
• ACM Conference Proceedings

• ACM Author Right Workflow

Cambridge University Press (CUP), starts from 2023.

• Journal List (Excel File)
• OA Waiver & Discount checker tool. This tool will provide full details of which journals and article types are eligible for funding support.

• Step-by-step guide to publishing Open Access in Cambridge journals

IOPScience (IOP), starts from 2024.

• Journal List (IOPScience website)
• Journal List (Excel File)

• A guide to submitting under a transformative agreement

Enjoy APC discounts for OA publishing

UM authors receive Article Processing Charges (APCs) reduction with the following publisher.

Springer Nature, starts from 2016.

Unlimited

Journal List (Springer Nature website)

The Open Access Journals contain the journals Imprints BioMed Central, Discover
and Springer.

• Publishing procedure: Step-by-step guide to article publishing
• For enquiry, please contact Ms. Candy Cheng of RSKTO (email: candycheng@um.edu.mo)

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)

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