Open Access

If you are the corresponding author, you may publish in ACS hybrid open access journals with no APCs under this agreement. Please follow these steps during the submission process:

1. During Submission via ACS Paragon Plus, as a corresponding author, select your institution from a drop-down box and use your affiliated university email address.
2. Check that your institution’s affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation. Complete the Journal Publishing Agreement to publish open access and retain copyright.
3. Click on the ‘Order Open Access’ link in the JPA tool to submit the open access funding request.
4. Staff at Van Wylen Library will be alerted of your open access funding request and, if the request is approved, your work will be published as ACS open access via a CC BY 4.0 license and made freely available on the ACS Publications website at no additional cost to you.

ACS Journals included in this agreement

Our Subscription to the AJP Consolidated package entitles our Hope College corresponding authors to automatically have their work published under a Creative Commons license and made open access at the time of publication in any of the 7 journals.

Because APS has reached their funding goal, for 2025:

• All articles in 2025 issues will open access (OA) under Creative Commons (CC) licenses in these 10 primary research journals.
• Authors will not pay Article Processing Charges (APC) to publish their work open access (OA) in one of the S2O Journals for 2025.

Our subscription to Journal of bacteriology : JB entitles corresponding authors at Hope College to enjoy uncapped publishing in that journal. Plus, regardless of our subscription status, authors can publish in any of the six S2O journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs). Standard page charges and supplemental material fees will still apply, and significant discounts are available to authors. More information is available from ASM.

For 2025:

• Open Access Guarantee: All authors will receive guaranteed open-access publishing when publishing in the 6 S2O journals' 2025 volumes.
   
• Funder Compliance: All authors will be in compliance with 2025 open access policies for the 6 S2O journals' 2025 volumes. ASM will make the published articles for 2025 fully and permanently open access under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.

Starting in 2025, Hope College has entered into a read & publish agreement with Cambridge University Press. This agreement enables you to read journal content from 1997-current from 447 journals and publish open access journal articles without charge. 

MCLS Wiley Agreement

Article publication charges (APCs) for primary research and review articles published by corresponding authors affiliated with Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) will be covered as part of MCLS’s agreement with Wiley*. To qualify, articles must be published in a fully open access journal and must have been accepted on or after 1 September 2021.
*subject to availability of sufficient funds.

How it Works

• Your work will be available for everyone to read, cite and share.
• You don’t need to arrange payment (publishing charges are paid centrally by your institution).
• Your work will comply with funder mandates..
• You can choose to publish in over 230 gold open access Wiley journals across many subject areas.
• You retain copyright for your work and publish under a Creative Commons License.
• Visit Wiley Author Services for more information.

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