FAQ: Does the library help pay Open Access Publication Charges ( APC - author processing charges)?

The Library has several ways to assist you with Open Access publishing.  While we do not currently provide APC funds to offset costs, Read-and-Publish agreements with the following publishers may help offset costs:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Cambridge University Press
• The Company of Biologists
• Springer
• Wiley
• Elsevier (New!)

Read more about these agreements. 

If you are not publishing with one of these publishers- there are still opportunities for you to publish open access in our Institutional Repository or other venues.

• Helping you negotiate your permissions (via Jisc's open policy finder)
   
• Supporting Green OA publishing by helping you deposit your article copy in the Library's institutional repository Scholarship@Claremont
  • FYI: Most publishers ( ~81%) give some form of blanket permission for authors to archive a version of their articles in an openly accessible place. The 19% that do not allow authors to archive a version of their article often allow for preprint archiving, which can be negotiated prior to signing the author’s copyright release.
     
• Helping you deposit your work in Scholarship@Claremont or help you find a suitable disciplinary OA repository for your work. 

For more information see the Scholarly Communications, Copyright, & Publishing Services webpage.