Open Access Publishing Support

What Is Read and Publish?

Read and Publish, also known as a transformative agreement, is an open access (OA) model that bundles payment for reading access and payment for publishing into a single contract.

The Texas Medical Center Library participates in several Read and Publish agreements which aim to serve authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. These agreements waive or discount publishing fees for authors who wish to publish in open access journals.   

Our current participating publishers are listed to the left. 

Please review the publisher journal lists in the author submission pages, to see if your article is eligible for an APC waiver or discount.  Only journals listed by the publisher offer these benefits.

Summary of Author Benefits:

Common terms in open access publishing:

• Gold:  Publisher provides free online access to the article in the OA journal, usually with an Article Processing Charge (APC). 
• Hybrid:  An article processing charge is paid for an individual journal article to be made open access in a subscription journal.

• Open Access option: Includes OA journals and the author's choice of publishing their work open or closed.
• Copyright:  Most agreements require that the author retain copyright control, and publish with a CC BY Creative Commons License (or the most flexible sharing license permitted by the researcher's funding requirements).
• Article processing charges (APCs):  Paid partially or in full by the institution, rather than the author.
• Subscribe to Open (S2O):  a funding model that allows a publisher to convert journals to OA one year at a time, without charging costs to authors. 

Benefits for authors:

• Publish under a Creative Commons license to determine how readers can use your article.
• Publish in an eligible hybrid journal and choose the option to make your article fully open.
• Retain copyright control over your content.
• Increase visibility for your research, leading to higher citations, wider reach and global impact.
• Fulfill research grant requirements which may require the publication of research in an open-access journal.

The TMC Library proactively supports Read and Publish and other APC discount agreements with publishers when the agreement is financially viable and provides authors with comprehensive open publishing options.

The Library does not currently fund article processing charges (APCs) but encourages our academic institutions to take advantage of these APC discounts.

The Library will continue to evaluate future Read and Publish agreement options from our publishers as they become available.