Q. Does the Library provide any support for Open Access publishing fees?

The library has agreements that cover the article processing charges (APC) for the following publishers:

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Cambridge University Press
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• The Company of Biologists

For more details about these agreements, please see below. Please note that some departments at OHSU also have their own policies to cover APCs, so if a journal you are interested in isn't listed here, we do recommend reaching out to your department. Additionally, the library is also able to help with investigating other open access options such as self-archiving or fee-free journals. For more information, or general questions about how the Library can support open access publishing or finding the right home for your manuscripts, please contact us. 

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Unlimited fee-free OA publishing for all OHSU corresponding authors
• Includes ACM's entire catalog of magazines, conference proceedings, and journals
• Default CC-BY author rights on all accepted research articles.
• Agreement in effect January 1, 2024-December 31, 2026

Cambridge University Press

• Includes approximately 400 journals
• Agreement covers publications submitted between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2026
• Provides fee-free open access publishing for OHSU corresponding authors in journals with an open access publishing option
• Learn more at the publisher's website

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

• Includes the following journals:
  • Genes & Development
  • Genome Research
  • RNA
  • Learning & Memory
  • Molecular Case Studies
• Agreement covers publications submitted between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024
  • Note: this benefit may end before December 31, 2024 if the total cost of subsidized APCs meets our institutional limit of $16,800
• Provides fee-free open access publishing for OHSU corresponding authors

Company of Biologists

• Includes the following journals:
  • Development
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Biology Open
• Agreement covers publications submitted between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2027
• Provides fee-free open access publishing for OHSU corresponding authors
• Learn more at the publisher's website