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)

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:

Limited APC Quota

Unlimited APC Quota

Who is eligible?

The benefit of this OA publishing are available to all UM staffs 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.

Limited APC Quota
Publisher	Quota for 2025	Journal Coverage	Publishing Procedure Guides
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 (first come, first serve; allocated by RSC)	Journals List (Hybrid Journals Only)	Guide to article licensing as a Read & Publish aurhor
Wiley, starts from 2024.	73 (first come, first serve)	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
Unlimited APC Quota
Publisher	Quota for 2025	Journal Coverage	Publishing Procedure Guides
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.	Unlimited	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.	Unlimited	Journal List (IOPScience website) Journal List (Excel File)	A guide to submitting under a transformative agreement

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.

	Used	Available	TOTAL
OA Publishing Quota for 2025
ACM:	5	Unlimited
ACS:	10	17	27
CUP:	6	Unlimited
IOP:	0	Unlimited
RSC:	7	4	11
WILEY:	69	4	73
[Unit: article] Last updated date: 24 June 2025.

If you have any question about open access publishing, you can:

send an email to lib_ris@um.edu.mo.
submit an Enquiry Form.