New Agreements Offer No-Cost Publishing Opportunities to U-M Authors

The U-M Library, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), has finalized two Open Access (OA) publishing agreements that provide U-M authors with a waiver of author processing charges (APCs) to publish in select OA journals.

These agreements include two PLOS journals (PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine) and most Cambridge University Press (CUP) journals.

• PLOS Journals: The full waiver for the PLOS journals applies to manuscripts for which a U-M author is the corresponding author. For manuscripts with U-M co-authors who are not the corresponding author, a reduced APC is available. FAQs about the PLOS Community Action Publishing Program can be found here.
• CUP Journals: U-M corresponding authors who publish in select CUP journals will receive an APC waiver.

When a manuscript is accepted for publication in one of the included journals, the author will see a menu of options allowing them to either “seek” funding from the U-M to cover open access charges or agree to be billed; select the option to seek funding to apply the fee waiver. 

These agreements are in addition to other Discount APCs and funding fee deals already established by the Library. 

Questions?

If you have any questions about these publishing agreements or other library resources and services, including Open Access publishing, please contact your informationist or the Taubman Health Sciences Library (thlibrary@umich.edu).