Read and Publish Agreements
OhioLINK, on behalf of its members, has negotiated transformative agreements with five publishers to benefit OhioLINK and Wright State University authors. Authors may publish open access articles at no cost to the individual or the author’s institution when publishing in eligible journals. The corresponding author must be affiliated with an OhioLINK member institution contributing to subscription costs for the Electronic Journal Center (EJC), such as Wright State. Wright State authors who want APC fees waived must use their WSU email address within the publisher’s author portal.
Each publisher’s transformative agreement is slightly different.
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OhioLINK Open Access Agreements Summary TableRead a succinct comparison of all five OhioLINK-WSU transformative agreements. The summary table includes detailed eligibility requirements, descriptions of the copyright license types, and links to assist authors.
Cambridge Journals OA Publishing for Authors
(Jan 1, 2025 through Dec 31, 2027)
Eligible article types: research or review articles including rapid communications, brief or case reports.
Title list: Use Cambridges OA Waivers and Discounts checker tool; choose United States, select Wright State University. Both hybrid and fully open access journals are eligible.
How does the process work? Authors are offered the OA option when accepted for publication in an eligible journal. View Cambridge’s How to publish open access under this agreement slides.
Elsevier Hybrid OA for Authors
(Jan 1, 2024 through Dec 31, 2027)
Eligible Article types: research or review articles, including full-length articles, micro-articles, case reports, data in brief, original software publications, practice guidelines, protocols, replication studies, short communication, short survey, and video articles.
Title list: Eligible Elsevier Hybrid Journals – search by title or subject. Note that fully open access journals are excluded from this deal.
Limits: There is an annual limit to OA articles. If reached, authors may choose to publish as subscription access at no charge or pay the APC to publish OA.
How does the process work? Authors are offered the OA option when accepted for publication in an eligible hybrid journal. View How does this process work on Elsevier’s OhioLINK agreement page.
IOP Journals OA Publishing for Authors
(Jan 1, 2023 through Dec 31, 2025)
Eligible article types: research or review articles
Title list: Eligible Journals for Transformative Agreements – lists A, B, C, and D, both hybrid and fully open access titles are eligible.
How does the process work? Authors are offered the OA option when accepted for publication in an eligible journal. See IOP’s A guide to submitting under a transformative agreement.
Springer Hybrid OA for Authors
(Jan 1, 2024 through Dec 31, 2026)
Eligible article types: research or reviews articles including rapid communications, brief or case reports
Title lists (note that fully open access journals are excluded from this deal):
Limits: There is an annual limit to OA articles. If reached, authors may choose to publish as subscription access at no charge or pay the APC to publish OA.
How does the process work? Authors are offered the OA option when accepted for publication in an eligible hybrid journal. View Springer’s Guide for Authors.
Wiley OA Publishing for Authors
(Jan 1, 2024 through Dec 31, 2026)
Eligible article types: research or review articles
Title Lists (Wiley’s hybrid and fully open access journals are eligible):
- Hybrid Journals – Wiley Article Publication Charges for Hybrid Open Access Journals
- Fully Open Access Journals – Wiley Open Access Journal Licensing and APCs
Limits: There is an annual limit to OA articles. If reached, authors may choose to publish as subscription access at no charge for hybrid journals, or pay the APC with a 10% discount.
How does the process work?
- Hybrid journals – OA option is available at publication acceptance. Read Make your article open access with a hybrid journal
- Open Access journals – the OA option is available when submitting for publication. Read Publishing your article in a fully open access journal.
Definitions
- Open Access – an article made available freely to all, without paywalls or subscription charges
- APC – article processing charge – a fee charged by the publisher to the author or the author’s institution to make a journal article open access
- Hybrid Journal – the journal publishes both open access and subscription, or fee-required articles
- Fully OA Journal – all of the articles published in the journal are available open access