Many publishers are offering “Read and Publish” or “transformative” agreements that allow university authors to publish gold open access (OA) with either a discount on, or an elimination of, article processing charges. The costs of these agreements are negotiated based on the payment that covers subscriptions to the publisher's content (Read) and the amount of open access publishing (Publish) submitted by university authors.
Albertsons Library has entered into seven “Read and Publish” agreements. We encourage authors to investigate these options as you consider publication options.
Please contact your library liaison or Kristi Schirrmacher (kristischirrmach@boisestate.edu) if you have any questions or want more information about these agreements and how you can participate.
(updated April 25, 2025)
American Chemical Society (ACS); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Cambridge University Press; Company of Biologists; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; and Springer Nature
Please scroll down for more information, including links to eligible journals and information for authors.
Boise State participates in the ACS transformative agreement through the Statewide California Electronic Consortium (SCELC).
To be eligible, articles must:
For more information, view the instructions for authors who want to publish open access.
UPDATE: Starting on July 1, 2025, full Article Processing Charge (APC) coverage will not be available for articles accepted after June 30. If you submit or have submitted an ACS manuscript that is accepted after June 30, please be aware that you will be required to pay a discounted APC of $1485-$3000 if you choose to publish the article open access. Authors who have an article currently in peer review in a fully open access journal may contact oa@scelc.org for additional options.
Under the current cost-neutral agreement, a portion of Boise State’s ACS subscription funds offset open publication fees. Authors who have research funding available have been asked to pay a subsidized APC, while others have received full coverage of their APC under the agreement. This shared-cost model has allowed equitable access to open publishing for all authors at participating institutions for the first three years of the agreement.
However, lower-than-expected participation by grant-funded authors has limited the sustainability of full coverage. While full APC support will end mid-2025, subscription access to ACS journals will not be affected, and negotiations are underway to further decrease the agreement APCs for the second half of 2025. Discussions have also begun to negotiate the best possible terms for the next multi-year agreement.
ACM Open provides participating institutions with full-text access to the ACM Digital Library, along with the right for their corresponding authors to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles with ACM without having to pay article processing charge fees. The ACM Digital Library contains every article and publication published by ACM from 1954 to present.
Information about the publishing model and instructions for authors can be found on the ACM Open page.
The Read and Publish agreement with Cambridge University Press allows for unlimited, no charge to the author, OA publishing in gold or hybrid journals for the period 2021 to 2026.
To be eligible, articles must:
For more information, visit the OA Agreement - Boise State University site or explore the eligibility checker tool.
The Read and Publish agreement with the Company of Biologists allows for unlimited, no charge to the author, OA publishing in the three journals for the period 2021 to 2026.
To be eligible, articles must:
For more information, see the publisher’s “Read & publish guide for authors.”
Elsevier and Boise State University have established an agreement to support affiliated corresponding authors who wish to publish open access.
The cost of publishing open access is covered under the terms of this agreement. When publishing open access in hybrid journals, eligible corresponding authors do not have to pay an article publishing charge (APC). Our agreement covers 46 articles each year from 2025-2029.
To be eligible, articles must:
For more information, see the publisher's Boise State agreement page. The page includes information about the process, which journals are included, publishing options, license options, and the article types that are covered by the agreement.
The transformative agreement with IOP Publishing allows for unlimited, no charge to the author OA publishing in IOP journals, society partner journals, and the Electrochemical Society journals for the period 2024-2026.
To be eligible, articles must:
For more information, see the publisher's page for researchers from the United States, list of eligible journals, and the author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement.
The transformative agreement with Springer Nature allows corresponding authors affiliated with Boise State University to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio for the period 2024-2027. The list of eligible journals is found on the Information for authors - Open access agreement for Lyrasis page. Though this agreement covers over 2,000 titles, it does not include Nature-branded titles.
For more information, see the Springer Nature Lyrasis Transformative Agreement with Springer Nature: A guide for authors page.
For questions about the agreements or how to participate as an author, please contact Kristi Schirrmacher, kristischirrmach@boisestate.edu.