Article Processing Charges (APCs) & Open Access Publication Support

UTA Libraries has negotiated a transformative open access agreement with ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) that covers publication for all journals, conference proceedings, and magazines of the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. Refer to these links for the ACM journals, conference proceedings and magazines which are included in the agreement.

UTA-affiliated corresponding authors who publish with ACM retain copyright and publish open access (via CC BY license) at no cost to the author. ACM will also make deposits into institutional repositories for all co-authors from UTA. Read more about ACM OPEN (ACM's Transformative Model for Open Access Publication) and UTA’s commitment. UTA faculty, students, and staff continue to receive unlimited and unrestricted access to all content in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions made prior to the agreement between January 1, 2021 and March 23, 2021 are eligible. Authors who submitted prior to implementation of the workflow may have their APC returned. Authors who do not wish to publish open access may opt out and publish.

Author Process

1. Ensure you have used UTA affiliation, address, and email for your account registration with the journal. Please note that you must use your UTA email address to be routed to the ACM Open program.
2. You receive a link to the ACM Open Author eRights platform in an email from the journal editor upon acceptance of your manuscript for publication, as a result of your UTA affiliation.
3. Make a choice regarding the ACM Open program:
   • To select the ACM Open for UTA authors, simply retain the default selection, which will be labeled: Institutionally paid Open Access with Author Retaining Copyright and all rights to their work.
   • To select closed-access publication, select one of the other two options. You will be provided with one of ACM’s two traditional publication agreements and will follow a standard ACM workflow process to complete one of those agreements.  With this option, your article will be available only for subscribers to the ACM Digital Library.
4. Upon selection of the ACM Open, you are asked to select their choice of Creative Commons (CC) license.

Following submission of your eRights form, you will receive an email confirmation of the acceptance of the form along with a copy for your record.

The Cambridge University Press (CUP) has published 44 full Gold OA journals and more than 330 hybrid journals that offer an OA option, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. The journal list is available at the Cambridge Journals webpage. The UT System and CUP hold a “Read & Publish” agreement, providing system-wide institutional access to all Cambridge University Press journals and offsetting the costs of open access publishing of articles authored by University of Texas scholars.

UTA faculty members who publish through this agreement will retain their author rights. UTA Libraries will archive articles published through this agreement in its institutional repository,

Author Process

1. Go to the journal webpage, click on the [Submit your article] button. Log in or create an account if you do not have one yet. Make sure you have used UTA affiliation, address, and email for your account registration.
2. If the article is accepted for publication, you will receive an acceptance email. If your article is accepted by a hybrid journal with an OA option, please choose the [Gold Open Access] for the preferred access type.
3. After the publishing agreement is signed off, the corresponding author will receive an email from the Publisher's Rightslink system and be requested to pay the APC. After registering and logging into Rightslink, you will see a “funding options” section. Choose the [Seek Funding from the University of Texas at Arlington] option.
4. Upon receiving your response, the Publisher will check whether the OA article is eligible for APC waiver based on the corresponding author’s institution information. Please ensure you have used the UTA affiliation, address, and email for the manuscript submission. 

See further details on the CUP agreement and a recording of the Read & Publish Author Training webinar by the CUP. 

The University of Texas System Libraries have completed a Read & Publish agreement for the term of January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2025. The agreement includes funding for affiliated authors to publish open access in eligible journals within List A, B, and D. Research paper, special issue, letter, and review article types are covered.

Eligible Authors:

All corresponding authors who are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and/or visiting), or students at UTA, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the author who submits the manuscript and is responsible for communicating with the journal during the submission, peer review and publication process.

Author Process:

Follow the step-by-step guide provided by IOP for submitting under a transformative agreement. Authors will be asked to sign an open access copyright form to publish under a CC BY license.

Corresponding authors from UTA will have the APC waived for their eligible articles in any John Benjamins journal publication, submitted on or after January 1, 2025. 

• Journal Submissions Information for Authors
• List of Read & Publish agreement participating institutions
• John Benjamins Open Access Policy
• Full list of JB journals

JAFSCD is a fully open access journal published through Cornell University. UTA Libraries is a Library Shareholder participant for JAFSCD, allowing affiliated authors to have their accepted APC automatically waived 100%. Authors retain copyright and articles are under a CC BY 4.0 license. 

• Information for authors
• Published Articles  

UTA Libraries has joined the PLOS Flat Fee (FF) model. Starting January 2025, UT-Arlington corresponding authors publishing in one of the following PLOS titles will have the open access publication fee fully waived. 

• PLOS One, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLOS Complex Systems
• Information for authors

Upon submitting your manuscript to any of the above eligible PLOS journals, be sure to list your institutional affiliation in the submission system, Editorial Manager. If your work is accepted for publication, PLOS will check this field and ensure that your benefits are applied to waive or reduce any publication fees.

Starting January 2024, UTA corresponding authors will have the option to have their accepted article published open access with the article processing charge fully waived for titles within Package B. Open Access Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY.  

Eligibility includes current members of the faculty, students, and staff at UTA, serving as corresponding author with authority to act on behalf of all co-authors in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript including supplementary material. 

Package B journals covered with APC waiver: 

• Biology Letters
• Interface Focus
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• Open Biology
• Royal Society Open Science 

Refer to the Royal Society of London website for more information for authors. 

SAGE has an agreement with the University of Texas System to publish articles open access through 2025.

• Subscription journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in 900+ subscription journals (the 2023 SAGE Premier Package) which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice) can be published open access, free of charge.

Gold open access journals: Corresponding authors publishing an article in a gold open access journal can also be published free of charge (refer to the gold journal title list).

Author Process

Authors will select open access via an email correspondence with SAGE and complete the process in the SAGE Open Access Portal. For gold open access journals, the 100% gold discount will be applied automatically in the SAGE Open Access Portal. UTA Libraries will receive a report of open access elections and support any authors with questions. .

The corresponding author must be affiliated with UTA for their article to qualify for the article processing charge (APC) discount.

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics converts subscription journals focused on high-energy physics to open access through re-direction of subscription funds. UT Arlington is part of a pilot program for one journal: Physics Letters B. 

The UT System agreement to cover APCs for Wiley hybrid journals is now effective starting January 1, 2025.

Articles eligible for OA funding will be governed by the following agreement specifications:

• Responsible corresponding authors must be affiliated with UTA.
• The article must be primary research or a review article. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded.
• Articles must either be accepted for publication in a Wiley hybrid journal on or after January 1, 2025. This ensures that the articles are published in reputable journals, enhancing their visibility and impact.

Additional Resources:

• The Wiley Author Services website provides information on author eligibility plus guides outlining how researchers can submit their hybrid APC funding requests.
• Author workflow guide for OA APC funding request submission for hybrid journals. This guide helps authors navigate the submission process smoothly, saving time and reducing errors.

This agreement for open access publishing in the participating American Chemical Society journals offers a variable pricing/APC discount model for subscribing institutions, with additional discounts for authors who are members of ACS. UTA authors who are non-members receive a $250 discount. UTA authors who are members receive a $750 discount.

The agreement between Elsevier and the TLCUA includes a discount on Article Processing Charges for UTA authors publishing in MOST Elsevier journals (not including Cell Press, Lancet, and some society journals). Authors publishing in Elsevier Gold Open Access journals will receive a 10% discount and authors publishing in Hybrid Open Access journals will receive a 15% discount.

Author Process

1. Ensure you have used UTA affiliation, address, and email for your account registration with the journal.
2. Upon acceptance by the journal, you will receive an email allowing you to choose the Open Access option (as opposed to the Subscription option wherein your article will be behind a paywall).
3. When you accept Open Access, you will see the cost and discount. UTA Libraries staff will receive a notification and approve your request.

Then, you can move forward with paying the remaining fee with grant funds, seeking funding to support the remainder of the APC, or pay out of pocket.

For any manuscript where at least one author is an affiliated author, MDPI will grant a 10% reduction on the published APC for the journal. 

Authors affiliated with UT-Arlington receive a discount on the APC for any paper published in an MDPI journal which may be combined with other discount types. However, please note that only one discount through an IOAP scheme is permitted per paper and any discount offered by the Editorial Office is inclusive of the IOAP discount. MDPI reserves the right to ask the Institution for evidence of affiliated author status before granting a discount. A list of current APC charges is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc.

Affiliated authors also receive a 10% discount on charges associated with open access book publishing with MDPI (i.e., book processing charges; BPCs). 

Furthermore, affiliated authors receive 15% discount on Language Editing Services provided by MDPI.

AIP’s S2O model pilot includes Journal of Applied Physics and Physics of Plasmas, both of which had all of their articles flip to open for 2024 due to meeting the threshold for subscriptions. The program continues for 2025.

The American Journal of Physiology Consolidated package has moved to a S2O model effective January 2025. UTA corresponding authors submitting to the seven (7) titles within the package are eligible to publish open access under a Creative Commons license with the article processing charge (APC) waived starting with the 2025 volumes. The titles covered are:

• AJP – Cell Physiology
• AJP – Endocrinology and Metabolism
• AJP – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
• AJP – Heart and Circulatory Physiology
• AJP – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
• AJP – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
• AJP – Renal Physiology

Please be aware that authors will still have a flat fee charge invoiced for accepted articles. See APS’ Flat Fee page for more information on fee amount and potential discounts for APS members.

The Libraries’ S2O subscription to the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) All-Inclusive Online collection provides APC waivers to UTA authors starting January 2025 as well. The article processing charge will be waived for ASM’s six participating journals: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Journal of Virology. See the Author FAQ for additional details.

ASM members also receive discounts for the page charges and supplemental material fee. These fees will be invoiced at the proofs stage and the corresponding author will receive a separate email from RightsLink. 

Browse Annual Reviews here. Learn more about Annual Reviews Subscribe to Open here.

Browse the books that are relevant to this agreement here. Learn more about MIT Press Direct to Open here.

The following journals are part of the SAGE pilot program. Learn more about SAGE Subscribe to Open here.

• Medical Law International
• Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights