As of spring 2024, we want to communicate changes in our licenses with various publishers. Read & Publish agreements are now very popular as the funding from the library toward subscription access is flipped to provide funding for faculty publications as well as read access to all (or nearly all) of a publisher's journals.
We currently participate in the following agreements:
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:
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.