OhioLINK has negotiated five read and publish agreements for its institutions' authors. These publishing agreements enable authors to publish open access by covering Article Processing Charges for the authors. The agreements also provide access to a broad range of research article literature from these publishers. The agreements with each publisher are summarized below.

Please note at the time of submission of your manuscript for peer review, that typically the submitting and corresponding author's institution will determine eligibility for the APC coverage through OhioLINK. It is best that the submitting and corresponding author use their Miami University email address and contact information at the time of submission.

Further information on the process and provisions of each deal can be found on the OhioLINK Open Access for authors agreements page.

Note these read and publish agreements have several important limitations, including:

• For some publishers the APC coverage benefit has fixed annual usage limits, and the options will not be available once these limits are reached.  FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2024, AS OF NOVEMBER WE HAVE REACHED OUR LIMIT FOR ELSEVIER AND ARE NEARING OUR LIMIT FOR WILEY.
• The offers are available to current and emeritus Miami faculty, staff, and students. The submitting and corresponding author should use their miamioh.edu email and contact information when submitting.
• Some imprints and journals are excluded, including for some publishers their so-called "Gold OA" titles (non-subscription OA titles not included in OhioLINK's subscription agreements).
• Each publisher agreement has specific provisions and requirements -- please see further details linked below for the specific publishers of interest.

OhioLINK's agreement with Cambridge University Press provides APC-free open access publishing in over 400 hybrid and fully open access journals in various subjects, including social sciences and humanities.

The article to be published must be accepted for publication after January 1, 2022, and on or before December 31, 2024.

While many article types are eligible, there are restrictions, including Book Reviews, Book Chapters, and Editorials, among others.  A full list of eligible article types and how to apply for funding can be found on the OhioLINK page for the Cambridge Journals agreement. Cambridge additionally has a page on the deal.

OhioLINK's agreement with Elsevier covers most of its hybrid journals. Gold OA journal and certain imprints including Cell Press and Lancet titles are excluded. A search tool for the covered journals can be found on Elsevier's Journal Finder for the OhioLINK agreement.  

The agreement runs from January 1, 2024, and ends on December 31, 2027. The journal article must have been accepted during this period, and there is a limited number of articles that OhioLINK institutions can publish during the calendar year. 

OhioLINK has an information page on the Elsevier deal, and Elsevier also has an information page.

OhioLINK's agreement with IOP applies to articles published as Gold open access in either fully open access journals or hybrid open access journals.

The acceptance date must fall within the length of the contract, January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2025.

There are a small number of journals published by IOP that do not participate in their open access publishing agreements. These include the American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals, some society titles that do not allow open access publishing, and a handful of translated and conference titles where the content is not original research, and review articles.

More information about the agreement is available here - IOP Journals Open Access Publishing: Information for Authors

OhioLINK and IOP Publishing sign uncapped transformative agreement

From January 2024 and continuing through December 2026, corresponding authors affiliated with OhioLINK institutions can publish open access articles in eligible hybrid journals from Springer Nature. These include hybrid Springer, Palgrave, Adis, and academic journals at nature.com, but not Nature portfolio journals such as Nature or Scientific American. Springer's fully open access journals are not included in this agreement.

The request approval date must fall between January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2026 the list of eligible journals can be found here - Springer Eligible Journals

OhioLINK has an agreement with Wiley to publish in hybrid and fully open access journals published by Wiley and Hindawi at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. There is a maximum number of articles that may be published as open access each year under the agreement.

Access to the open access publishing benefits begin January 1, 2024 and continues through December 31, 2026. Original research and review articles are eligible for open access publishing in any of Wiley's hybrid or fully open access journals under this deal.

OhioLINK has a page for authors with more information here - Wiley OA Publishing: Information for Authors

Wiley has an information page located here - Open access agreement for authors at eligible OhioLINK institutions