The Hesburgh Libraries at Notre Dame has negotiated "transformative agreements" with several publishers. These agreements allow Notre Dame authors to secure a 100% discount on author processing fees with some or all journals from those publishers.
Journal Lookup Tool
To find out if the journal you are planning to publish in is covered by one of Notre Dame's Transformative Agreements, click this link. The link will create a copy of a Google Sheet listing journals that are currently included in the Hesburgh Libraries' transformative agreements.
Details on individual publisher discounts are available below.
This list will be updated as additional agreements are secured with publishers. Please direct your questions to hl-oa-publishing-list@nd.edu
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Notre Dame.
All journals published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) which are either fully open access or offer an open access option (hybrid journals). A complete listing of Cambridge journals is located here. Any journal marked with "Open access" or "Contains open access" on that page is included in the agreement.
The Read and Publish agreement between the University of Notre Dame and Cambridge University Press waives article processing charges (APCs) at 100% for qualifying journals for the following article types: research articles, reviews, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports.
See CUP's Author's Guide to Paying an Article Processing Charge (APC) for more information. When prompted for information about an affiliation discount, select the University of Notre Dame.
CUP offers Creative Commons licenses for articles published as OA. If no Creative Commons license is selected, the CC BY license will be applied by default.
Authors retain copyright when publishing open access, but must sign an individual License To Publish (LTP) with the specific journal. For journals with digital contract signature, the author is sent a digital copy of the contract to review and sign. Journals that are not using the digital workflow will have their LTP's available on their journal page, as in this example.
The University of Notre Dame, through the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL) consortium, has a transformative "Read & Publish" agreement with Cambridge University Press which covers access to CUP journals and payments for open access publication of Notre Dame authors in CUP journals.
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Notre Dame.
The publishing agreement covers 100% of authors publishing charges.
The corresponding author needs to submit articles with a Notre Dame email address.
CC-BY, and CC-BY-NC version 4.0 licenses are available.
Notre Dame secured this arrangement individually with Cold Spring Harbor.
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Notre Dame. See here for more information on how The Company of Biologists describes the role and responsibilities of the corresponding author.
Note: Corresponding authors must use their nd.edu email address to prove their eligibility during the submission process.
Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open.
Note: Articles published in "hybrid" journals which are not specifically designated as open access articles will not be available under the terms of the CC By 4.0 license.
The Read and Publish agreement between the University of Notre Dame and The Company of Biologists waives article processing charges (APCs) at 100% for research articles in qualifying journals.
See the Guide for corresponding authors at institutions with Read & Publish and other transformative Open Access agreements for step-by-step instructions.
Corresponding authors who choose to submit articles as open access articles under The Company of Biologists-University of Notre Dame Read and Publish agreement will have their work published under a CC-BY Version 4.0 Creative Commons license.
The University of Notre Dame has a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists which covers access to these journals as well as payments for publishing open access in them.
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Notre Dame.
Please see this list of eligible journals (A, B, C, and D lists).
The Read and Publish agreement between the University of Notre Dame and the Institute of Physics waives article processing charges (APCs) at 100% for qualifying journals for papers/special issue papers; reviews and/or letters.
See the IOP “A guide to submitting under a transformative agreement” web page for step-by-step instructions.
Corresponding authors who submit articles under the IOP-University of Notre Dame Read and Publish agreement will have their work published under a CC-BY Creative Commons license, the standard gold open access license for IOP journals. The only exception is for the journals of The Electrochemical Society, which offer a choice of CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND.
See this IOP video to learn more about what the CC BY license covers and how to sign the copyright form to publish under a transformative agreement.
The University of Notre Dame has a transformative “Read & Publish” agreement with IOP which covers access to IOP journals and payments for open access publication of University of Notre Dame research in specific IOP journals.
Corresponding authors from the University of Notre Dame. Eligible (Notre Dame) authors must be the primary corresponding author as designated in the article submission system, and their Customer Site (Notre Dame) must be stated as their affiliation in both the article and the submission system workflow.
All Royal Society of Chemistry Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals, including RSC Advances are covered. A listing of both Hybrid and Gold OA journals is available here.
The Read and Publish agreement between the University of Notre Dame and the Royal Society of Chemistry waives article processing charges (APCs) at 100% for qualifying journals.
Detailed instructions for submissions are available in this document.
The Royal Society of Chemistry offers two options for licenses: CC BY and CC BY-NC. More information regarding the Royal Society of Chemistry's Open Access policy is available here.
The University of Notre Dame has partnered with Lyrasis to secure this Read and Publish agreement.
Corresponding authors from the University of Notre Dame.
These titles are fully open access:
These titles offer an open option:
All article types are included in this agreement.
This agreement offers a 100% discount for all eligible authors. No fee will be charged to publish articles openly.
Once an eligible author submits an article and selects an Open Access option on the publisher website they will be directed to a list of participating member institutions. Once Notre Dame is selected from the list of member institutions, the author will be informed that their article will be published open access.
CC-BY licenses are available.
The University of Notre Dame has a transformative "Read & Publish" agreement with Royal Society Publishing which covers access to Royal Society Publishing journals and payments for open access of University of Notre Dame research in Royal Society journals.
Corresponding authors from the University of Notre Dame.
Hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. Some, but not all, Nature journals are included. Fully open access journals are not included in the agreement. A complete list of journals covered under this agreement is available on this page: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/nerl. Look for the Excel file directly above the FAQs.
100% of open access fees for hybrid Springer Nature journals are covered under this agreement.
A guide for authors is available here: https://springernature.turtl.co/story/ta_authors/page/1. Questions about publishing open access with Springer Nature can be directed to this email address: oa.verification@springernature.com. You are also welcome to contact librarians at Notre Dame with this email address: hl-oa-publishing-list@nd.edu
CC-BY licenses are available.
This is a consortial agreement through the Northeast Research Libraries (NERL) consortium. More details are available here: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/nerl