Open Access Publishing Oportunities Facilitated by Baylor Libraries
Open Access Publishing allows researcher's publications to be read freely by anyone. Publishing open access supports equity, reproducibility, and greater dissemination of ideas. However, often an Article/Author Publication Charge (APC) is required to publish openly.
Baylor Libraries is working with publishers to lower this barrier to open access publishing.
If you have questions about open access publishing and APCs, please email us.
Read and Publish Agreements
Read and Publish (aka transformative) agreements promote the dissemination of institutional research through open access, i.e., the public does not need a subscription to read the papers, without requiring author payment of Article/Author Publishing Charges (APC) because the library’s contractual agreement with the publisher covers some or all of these fees.
Authors must request the library to approve payment of any APC charges, and there is no guarantee that funds/tokens with any particular publisher will be available. Please note that the library will not approve payment of any APC charges until after a paper has been accepted. However, you may request funding while the article is under review if that is part of the publisher's workflow.
*In instances where there are a limited amount of funds/tokens, researchers will only be allotted one token a year and assistant (pre-tenured) professors will be prioritized.
Cambridge University Press
Wiley (for hybrid and open journals)
- Wiley Open Access
- List of Wiley Gold Open Access Journals (very limited number of tokens*, please email us)
- How to make your article open access (for hybrid journals)
- List of all Wiley Journals
Springer (for hybrid journals only)
- Publish Open Access with Springer
- Springer Open Access Agreements
- OA Journal FAQs
- List of eligible OA journals (scroll down to the spreadsheet)
- Note: Nature journals are not included in this agreement
Royal Society of Chemistry (for hybrid and gold journals)
- OA Publishing at RSC
- Journal Finder (Tool for finding eligible journals under Baylor's OA agreement)
- RSC OA Agreements (Baylor is listed under USA - GWLA)
- List of all RSC Journals
Company of Biologists (for all COB Journals)
Microbiology Society (for all society journals)
APC Discount Agreements
Some publishers offer discounts for Article/Author Publishing Charges through the library's subscriptions and memberships.
American Chemical Society Publications
- ACS Open Access Pricing Author Publication Charges
- $250 library discount for hybrid journals, and additional $250 discount for ACS members
Biomed Central
- List of Biomed Central journals
- List of articles by Baylor researchers in Biomed Central publications
- Instructions for submitting an article using Baylor's discount
- 15% discount, log into APC Access Codes and scroll down to BioMedCentral to get Baylor's account number
Elsevier
- Agreement between Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) and Elsevier (including search for participating journals)
- 15% discount for Gold Open Access Journals (not including Lancet and Cell Press journals and a small number of society journals)
- 10% discount on Hybrid Open Journals (not including Lancet and Cell Press journals and a small number of society journals
- Lead author must use a baylor.edu email address and the invoice should be sent to the individual researcher NOT to the institution
Open Library of Humanities
- List of Open Library of Humanities Journals
- No Author Publication Charge
*In instances where there are a limited number of tokens, researchers will only be allotted one token a year and assistant (pre-tenured) professors will be prioritized.
