Open Access: Read and Publish Agreements

An article processing charge (APCs) is a fee paid to the publisher by the author or institution, in exchange for the article to be open access, readable without a paywall, and published under a Creative Commons License with authors retaining copyright. 

Libraries sometimes make agreements with publishers that cover or discount APCs for articles that have an author affiliated with their institution. The cost of the APC is built into the subscription cost of the journal publisher package under transformative agreements.  

These agreements can be called "read and publish agreements" or "transformative agreements."

See below for a list of South Dakota State University’s Read and Publish Agreements.

If you have any questions about these agreements, please contact Michael Biondo, Electronic Resources and Scholarly Communications Librarian at michael.biondo@sdstate.edu.

For questions about specific journals and subject-related questions, please contact your Subject Librarian.

Cambridge University Press
South Dakota State University corresponding authors are eligible to publish open access in Cambridge University Press Gold OA and Hybrid journals.

IOP Science
South Dakota Board of Regents have signed a  transformative agreement with IOP Publishing that allows corresponding authors who are current staff members, researchers, faculty (permanent, temporary and/or visiting), or students at South Dakota State University to publish open access at no cost to themselves.

A full list of eligible journals (SDSU can publish in Journals List A, B, and D), and the IOPP Journal Finder can be found on the Eligible Journals page.  

Microbiology Society
South Dakota State University corresponding authors can publish in all Microbiology Society journals at no additional cost. Use your SDSU affiliation and email address when submitting your article for publication.

Springer Nature
South Dakota State University is one of 120 Lyrasis consortia members participating in a read and publish agreement with SpringerNature.
SDSU corresponding authors are eligible to publish open access in over 2,000 Springer Nature Hybrid journals.
Complete information, instructions, and FAQs can be found here :
Springer Nature/ Lyrasis Open Access Agreement Information for SDSU Authors

SDSU affiliated authors will need to use three data elements for verification:

• Select "South Dakota State University" from list of participating institutions.
• Use your sdstate.edu email address
• Submit via campus IP Address
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  NATURE branded and BMC journals are excluded from this agreement. See the list of eligible titles below.
  This agreement runs through Dec 31, 2027.

• Transformative Agreements: A Primer  (Published: April, 2019)
  
  This blog post by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe for The Scholarly Kitchen provides a basic primer on transformative and read-and-publish agreements.
   

• Transformative Agreements : Do They Pave the Way to Open Access (Published: December, 2020)
  
  This article published in Learned Publishing provides an analysis of 36 full-text transformative agreements.
   

• Article Processing Charges for Open Access Journal Publishing : A Review (Published: July 2023)
  
  This article also from the journal, Learned Publishing , reviews literature on article processing charges since 2000