Open Access Publishing Support

What Is Read and Publish?

Read and Publish is a transformative agreement that bundles reading, access and publishing costs, into a single license that provides affiliated library users discounts or waivers of APC fees for publishing their articles open access (OA).

What is Subscribe to Open (S2O)?

S2O is another type of transformative agreement that allows a publisher to convert journals to OA one year at a time, without charging APC fees to affiliated authors.

The Texas Medical Center Library participates in both Read and Publish and S2O agreements to serve their local authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. These agreements waive or discount publishing fees for corresponding 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. 

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, S2O 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 fund APCs but encourages our academic institutions to take advantage of APC discounts or waivers provided by our select publishers.

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