UMBC Open Access Agreements

The UMBC Library participates in some open-access publisher agreements that are available to UMBC authors. 

For questions or more information on participating in the following open-access publisher agreements, please contact Digital Scholarship Services Librarian, Michelle Flinchbaugh, flinchba@umbc.edu, or the Associate Director for Technical Services, Lynda Aldana, laldana@umbc.edu.

Publishing Agreement Name: Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)

Journals Covered by Agreement: Entire ACM Digital Library

Available APC Tokens: Unlimited

General APC Charges: $700 - $1,800

Manuscript Eligibility: All fully peer-reviewed research articles newly published in ACM’s magazines, conference proceedings and journals are eligible.

Author Eligibility: Corresponding Author must be associated with UMBC.

Author Submission Guide: Link to ACM OPEN Author Experience

Publishing Agreement Name: Springer Nature

Journals Covered by Agreement: 2,286 Springer titles, 21 Adis titles, and 47 Palgrave Macmillan titles.

Nature branded titles and fully open access journals are not covered. Nature branded titles are any of the Springer Nature titles that begin with the word "Nature."

Available APC Tokens: Unlimited

General APC Charges: $1040 - $6,890

Manuscript Eligibility: All fully peer-reviewed research articles newly published in Springer journals.

Author Eligibility: Corresponding Author must be associated with UMBC.

Author Submission Guide: Open Access Agreement for Lyrasis

Publishing Agreement Name: ​SCOAP³

Journals Covered by Agreement: Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB), Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP), Chinese Physics C (CPC), The European Physical Journal C (EPJC), The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), Nuclear Physics B (NPB), Physics Letters B (PLB), Physical Review C (PRC), Physical Review D (PRD), Physical Review Letters (PRL), Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP)

Available APC Tokens: Unlimited

Author Eligibility: Corresponding Author must be associated with UMBC.

Author Submission Guide: See https://scoap3.org/phase3-journals/