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: The Company of Biologists

Journals Covered by the Agreement: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms,
Biology Open

Available APC Tokens: Unlimited

Author Eligibility: Corresponding author must be associated with UMBC.

Author Submission Guide: See:https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/guide-for-authors/

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/

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

Project Muse offers an equitable open access model for scholarly journals that enables subscription journals to open access to their current content without Article Processing Charges (APCs). This program is Subscribe to Open (S2O). As part of our continued support for the Project Muse premium collection, 102 of the journals that are part of our subscription participate in the S2O program. To support the program,The MUSE S2O program makes open access to the current year’s content of participating journals contingent on the continued support of MUSE subscribers. Each year, MUSE sets the minimum sustainability threshold (number of subscribers) required to fund the participating S2O journals that year. If the sustainability threshold is reached, the current year’s content of the participating titles will be opened to all readers and authors are not required to pay an OA fee. If the threshold is not reached, that year’s content will remain gated. 

Most of the journals covered are humanities and social science journals, but they also includes journals in some other subjects including medicine, health, science, technology, and math.