Transformative Agreements: Home

The TCU Library is excited to announce that it has signed some innovative agreements with scholarly publishers, allowing TCU authors to make their journal articles freely available to the world at no cost or at a discount. This expands the reach and influence of our research and creative scholarship, and increases equity by reducing barriers for readers worldwide to access TCU's scholarship. These types of agreements are known as Transformative Agreements.

Please review the publishers that have transformative agreements with TCU below.

Questions? Email libscholarlycommunication@tcu.edu.

TCU authors publishing articles in ACM conferences, journals, and magazines may make their article Open Access without the need to pay an Article Processing Charge. Details:

• All ACM conferences, journals, and magazines, for which ACM manages production and rights, are eligible. Certain jointly-published publications are excluded. More information here: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/publications-eligible-for-oa
• Corresponding author must be a current TCU faculty, staff, or student.
• There is no limit on the number of articles that may be published under this agreement.

TCU authors publishing articles in Company of Biologists journals may make their article Open Access without the need to pay an Article Processing Charge. Details:

• Corresponding Author must be a TCU student, or paid faculty or staff
• When submitting your manuscript, select TCU as your affiliation and use your TCU email address.
• Includes all journals published by the Company of Biologists: https://www.biologists.com/
• There is no limit on the number of articles that may be published under this agreement.

TCU authors publishing articles in Elsevier (also known as ScienceDirect) journals may make their article Open Access at a discounted rate of 10-15% off the article processing charge (APC). Includes most, but not all Elsevier journals.

Details:

• Corresponding Author must be a TCU student, or paid faculty or staff
• When submitting your manuscript, select TCU as your affiliation and use your TCU email address.
• Includes most, but not all Elsevier journals. To check eligibility, use this website: https://agreements.journals.elsevier.com/tcu.
• Journals that are fully open access have an APC discount of 10%. Journals that are partially open access, sometimes called "hybrid" open access have an APC discount of 15%.
• There is no limit on the number of articles that may be published under this agreement.

TCU authors publishing articles in Institute of Physics (IOP) journals may make their article Open Access without the need to pay an Article Processing Charge. Details:

• Corresponding Author must be a TCU student, or paid faculty or staff
• When submitting your manuscript, select TCU as your affiliation and use your TCU email address.
• Includes many but not all journals published by IOP. View this webpage for the complete list. Our agreement includes journals in lists A, B, C, and D. https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/eligible-journals-transformative-agreements/
• There is no limit on the number of articles that may be published under this agreement.

TCU authors publishing articles in Wiley journals may make their article Open Access without the need to pay an Article Processing Charge. Details:

• Responsible corresponding author must be a TCU student or paid faculty or staff.
• When submitting your manuscript, select TCU as your affiliation and use your TCU email address.
• TCU authors may collectively publish up to 60 articles without any Article Processing Charge during the calendar year.
• Includes nearly all Wiley journals. Journals that appear on at least one of the spreadsheets below are included:
  • Traditional/Hybrid journals: https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-OnlineOpen.xlsx
  • Fully Open Access journals: https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-Open-Access.xlsx