Transformative agreements, also known as read and publish agreements, are licenses negotiated by libraries with publishers that allow subscription fees to be applied to the costs of open access publishing. Auburn University Libraries has a limited number of these agreements that will pay the cost of article processing charges (APCs) on behalf of AU researchers to make their content more widely available to readers.
Auburn University Libraries has an active agreement with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) referred to as "ACM Open."
For more information, please see: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess.
Auburn University Libraries has a direct "read and publish" agreement with Cambridge University Press.
Please see the OA Agreement - Auburn University, US website for more information.
Check your eligibility to publish OA under this agreement, and the journals available to you, by using CUP's eligibility checker tool.
Auburn University Libraries has a direct read & publish agreement with The Company of Biologists.
To learn more about this agreement, please see the Read & Publish Open Access initiative.
Auburn University Libraries has a read and publish agreement with IOP Publishing.
To learn more, see: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/open_access/.
Use the IOPP Journal Finder to check eligibility.
Auburn University Libraries has a "Publish and Read" agreement with the Microbiology Society.
See their website for more information: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-read.
Auburn University Libraries has a transformative agreement with Springer Nature through the Lyrasis consortium.
To learn more, please see the Open access agreement for Lyrasis: Information for authors website.
Note: This agreement provides financial support for open access publishing in Springer imprint hybrid journals only. Nature branded journals such as Nature Chemistry are excluded. Journals that are published by Springer Nature, but are fully open access or Gold Open Access are also excluded from this agreement. See a list of included titles online (Excel download): Eligible journals.
Auburn University Libraries has no additional funding to pay for APCs. Only our transformative agreements provide support. Check first to make sure that the journal that you are interested in is covered by an existing agreement.
Some "extras" such as color images, very large publications, or articles with other unusual characteristics might require additional fees. Please ask before making any assumptions. In cases in which fees for open access publishing exceed the typical rate as defined in our license agreements, the Libraries will not be able to pay the difference in cost.
