As of Jan. 1, the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) has two new agreements that will facilitate open access (OA) publishing at UMB.
Known as “Read and Publish Agreements,” these contracts provide UMB authors with the opportunity to make their articles OA in certain journals without paying the article processing fee that would typically be charged. Our agreements are with Elsevier and Wiley, two large academic publishers.
When a UMB affiliate is the corresponding author for a paper that is accepted by an eligible journal, they will see the option to select this free OA publishing format when completing their copyright and licensing agreements in the journal publisher’s portal. If this option does not appear, the journal is either not eligible for the agreement or we have used our allotment of free publishing credits for that calendar year.
More information about these agreements as well as other publishing guidance is available on our Open Access guide. Contact Steve Douglas (sdouglas@hshsl.umaryland.edu) with any questions related to the OA agreements. For general publishing questions and guidance, contact publishing@hshsl.umaryland.edu.