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. 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 Wiley and Hindawi 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 and Hindawi 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

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 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.