University of Pittsburgh Library System

The ULS has partnered with a number of scholarly publishers to enable eligible University of Pittsburgh authors to achieve immediate open access without further payment or at a discounted APC rates.

Publishing open access, allows authors retain their author rights, and make their publications freely accessible immediately after publication (avoiding embargos).

Following are the publishers, with which University Libraries have such agreements:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can publish open access in eligible ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings (https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/publications-eligible-for-oa).
• To be eligible, University of Pittsburgh authors must be listed as corresponding author and use their institutional email address when submitting their work.
• For more information how to submit your manuscript see: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess#acmopenexperience

ACS (American Chemical Society)

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in ACS Publications without APC charges.
• The agreement includes access to all American Chemical Society publications and covers article processing charges (APCs) in gold open access and hybrid journals.
• University of Pittsburgh authors must opt-in to open access upon article submission to take advantage of this deal.
• Please use your Pitt email address when submitting to avoid delays.

Bioscientifica

• Bioscientifica allows corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh to receive a 50% discount on open access charges when opting in to open access in one of their hybrid journals, all 4 of which HSLS subscribes to. See the Hybrid (subscription) journals section on Bioscientifica's website for more information.

Cambridge University Press

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in all open access and hybrid Cambridge University Press journals, without APC charges.
• University of Pittsburgh and UPMC authors must opt-in to open access upon article submission to take advantage of this deal.
• Authors can also retroactively ensure articles are open access if not selected initially (2022 articles only).
• To receive the waiver, make sure to register your account in Cambridge’s online submission system using your Pitt (or UPMC) e-mail address and enter University of Pittsburgh as your affiliation. Then, select that you want to publish under one of the Open Access licenses.

De Gruyter

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish in most hybrid and open access De Gruyter journals without APC charges.
• University of Pittsburgh authors must opt-in to open access upon article submission to take advantage of this deal.
• Eligible article types include original research and review articles.
• To receive the waiver, make sure to use your pitt.edu e-mail address in the article submission process. Then, select that you want to publish under one of the Open Access licenses.
• Instructions on how to submit are specified on each journal webpage under the Submission of Manuscripts tab. For more information how to submit your manuscript see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors

IOP (Institute of Physics)

• unlimited fee waiver in 2023 - 2025 for articles with a Pitt-affiliated corresponding author in most IOP journals.
• Use your Pitt email address when submitting articles to avoid delays. All eligible articles will automatically be made OA unless the author opts out.
• From 2024, journals from the Electrochemical Society are also included in the deal (ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology and Journal of The Electrochemical Society).
• Note: American Astronomical Society journals are not included in this agreement.
• For more information how to submit your manuscript see: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/submit-under-a-transformative-agreement-guide/

John Benjamins Journals

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in all John Benjamins journals, without APC charges.
• To be eligible, University of Pittsburgh authors must be listed as corresponding author, use their institutional email address (pitt.edu), and have their affiliation stated in the article to be published.
• Eligible article types include research articles, reviews, and introductory articles.
• To be eligible, manuscripts need to be submitted between January 1 and December 31, 2024. (This program is subject to annual renewals)
• Information for Authors of Journal Articles - https://benjamins.com/content/authors/journalsubmissions

Microbiology Society

• University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish in all Microbiology Society journals without APC charges.
• Articles accepted for publication after January 1, 2024, are eligible under this program.
• To receive the waiver, authors must use their institutional e-mail address (@pitt.edu; @chp.edu; @magee.edu; @upmc.edu) in the article submission process. Then, they need to select one of the Open Access licenses.
• For more information about the submission process see: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/upload/Publish_and_Read_Author_Guide.pdf

Royal Society of Chemistry

• In 2024 University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in all Royal Society of Chemistry journals (apply “select institution” filter to see which titles are covered), without APC (Article Processing Charges) charges.
• To be eligible, University of Pittsburgh authors must be listed as corresponding author, use their institutional email address (pitt.edu), and have their affiliation stated in the article to be published.
• This program is subject to annual renewals.
• For more information about open access publishing with RSC see https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access-publishing.

Science Advances

• Corresponding authors who list their institution as the University of Pittsburgh will automatically receive a 5% APC discount for their open access articles.

SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers)

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors now receive a 25% APC charges discount to publish in SPIE hybrid and gold open access journals.

The Company of Biologists

• University of Pittsburgh researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in Company of Biologists journals without APC charges.
• Please use your Pitt email address when submitting to avoid delays.
• For more information how to submit your manuscript see: information for authors.

Wiley (incl. Hindawi titles)

• Corresponding authors who are currently enrolled as a student or employed at the University of Pittsburgh or UPMC may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal (submitted on or after 1 January 2024) or published open access in a hybrid journal (accepted on or after 1 January 2024).
• Eligible article types include primary research, review articles and cases studies.
• To receive the waiver, corresponding authors must create an account in Wiley’s Author Services system using their Pitt (or UPMC) e-mail address.
• For Open Access Journals, authors will also be prompted to choose a payment option where they can enter PITT as the open access account code to apply for the waiver.
• Search Journal Finder to select from over 1,400 journals included in this deal.
• For more information how to submit your manuscript see here.

For more information on any of these opportunities, contact us.