Research and Course Guides: Transformative Agreements at Clemson: Transformative Agreements

Transformative Agreements at Clemson

Clemson University Libraries continue to seek new opportunities for participation in transformative agreements (also referred to as read and publish agreements).

These licenses provide authors affiliated with Clemson University the option to publish open access (OA) content in gold or hybrid OA journals at no cost. In many models, publishing an OA article comes with a substantial fee, referred to as an Article Processing Charge (APC).

Below is a list of the agreements in which Clemson University is participating along with details about how that specific agreement functions.

List of Agreements

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

APC Process: OA Dashboard, managed by assigned Clemson University rep
Limits: No limit on APC approvals, but subscription pricing will change to reflect increased submissions
Other Details: ACM will deposit a copy of each article into the institutional repository

More information here: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

AIP Publishing

APC Process: Submissions to participating journals can be covered under the agreement
Limits: 19 articles in 2023, 20 articles in 2024, and 21 articles in 2025
Other Details: This agreement only covers hybrid journals.

More information here: https://publishing.aip.org/resources/researchers/open-science/open-access/

List of AIP Hybrid Journals

Cambridge University Press

APC Process: Submissions are approved through RightsLink, managed by assigned Clemson University rep
Limits: Unlimited submissions are permitted under the agreement

More information here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/open-research/open-access

Author guide, including links to eligibility checker: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/publishing-open-access

Canadian Science Publishing

APC Process: Use standard article submission process
Limits: Page charges are billed despite APC coverage for the following four hybrid journals: Canadian Journal of Animal Science, Canadian Journal of Plant Science, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, and Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering.

More information here: https://cdnsciencepub.com/open-access

Company of Biologists

APC Process: Standard submission process with Clemson affiliation identified
Limits: Unlimited submissions available
Other Details: Renewal terms based on average submissions from previous years

More information here: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/

Elsevier

APC Process - Authors should be guided through the process during submissions and recognized by their Clemson affiliation.
Limits - For hybrid journals, no institutional limits, but a pool of tokens are shared across institutions in North Carolina and South Carolina and are subject to becoming exhausted prior to the conclusion of the calendar year. Gold OA excluded.
All article types are currently eligible for APC coverage.

Use Elsevier's Journal Finder to check journal availability or to match your abstract to the most relevant journals.

More information here: https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/carolina-consortium

Institute of Physics (IOP)

APC Process: Articles are provided coverage based on Clemson affiliation
Limits: Unlimited APC coverage

More information here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/open_access/

The Royal Society

APC Process: Authors should be guided through the process during submissions and recognized by their Clemson affiliation.
Limits: Uncapped publishing across all journals.

More information here: https://royalsociety.org/journals/open-access/

The Royal Society of Chemistry

APC Process: Authors should be guided through the process during submissions and recognized by their Clemson affiliation.
Limits: Includes all hybrid and gold OA along with RSC Advances.

More information here: https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access-publishing

Springer

APC Process: An assigned Approval Manager reviews submissions that do not provide clear Clemson University affiliation.
Limits: No institutional limits, but a pool of tokens are shared across institutions in North Carolina and South Carolina and are subject to becoming exhausted prior to the conclusion of the calendar year.
Currently, only hybrid journals are eligible for full APC coverage. Fully open access journals are not eligible.

Please visit this link for a current list of journals and an informative author guide : www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/carolina-consortium

Wiley Author Services

APC Process: Standard submission process as outlined on site
Limits: No institutional limits, but a pool of tokens are shared across institutions in North Carolina and South Carolina and are subject to becoming exhausted prior to the conclusion of the calendar year
Articles eligible for OA funding will be governed by the following agreement specifications:
- Responsible corresponding authors must be affiliated with Clemson University or a participating institution within our agreement.
- Restricted to article types (see file below) that are primary research and review articles, including but not limited to original articles, case studies, reviews, short communications.
- Articles must either be accepted for publication in a Wiley hybrid journal (see file below) or be submitted to a Wiley fully OA or Hindawi journal (see file below) on or from 1 January 2024 onwards.

More information here: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/carolina-consortium-agreement.html