Transformative Agreements

Transformative agreements, also known as a "read and publish" agreements, are a contract between a research institution and a publisher in which open access charges are encompassed within the subscription fees that the library pays to the publisher allowing authors to publish in open access journals with no article processing charges (APC). 

APCs are covered for researchers who are the corresponding author (faculty, students and staff) and choose to publish open access in journals under the publishers who have an agreement with the Rohrbach Library. Those publishers are listed below. When submitting articles to the publishers, KU authors are required to use their KU email address to confirm their affiliation.

KU corresponding authors can publish an unlimited number of OA articles for free in any of ACM's journals, conference proceedings, and magazines. To be eligible, authors must use their KU email when submitting the article.

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APC covered for KU-affiliated authors for open access publication in all ACS journals.

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KU-affiliated authors may publish your article Open Access at no cost in gold and hybrid journals. Articles must be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports

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KU-affiliated authors can publish an unlimited number of OA articles for free in all five of Company of Biologist's hybrid and gold OA journals.

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Agreement supports unlimited OA publishing by KU corresponding authors in IOP's gold and hybrid journals.

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APC charges covered for all hybrid journals from the Springer, Adis, and Palgrave. Does not include Springer Open, BMC or Nature-branded titles (journal titles that begin with Nature).