Open Access: How to Publish

SMU Libraries has publishing agreements to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) with multiple publishers, if the SMU author is listed as the corresponding author:

Association for Computing Machinery	Berghahn Open Anthropology	Cambridge University Press
Company of Biologists	Elsevier	IEEE
IOP Publishing	Microbiology Society	Oxford Publishing
Springer	Wiley

Submit your article via the typical submission process for that journal. After manuscript acceptance, if the journal has an open access agreement with us, you will be advised that OA publishing is available to you, with SMU paying the publication costs. You can choose whether or not to accept it.

What will SMU cover? 

• All the Article Processing Charges (APCs)
• Errata charges 

What isn't covered by SMU?

• Overlength charges (some journals charge if an article goes over a certain page length)
• Color charges to pay for images and graphics in the print edition (color online is usually free)

 

Association for Computing Machinery

• OA for all ACM journals.

Berghahn Open Anthropology

• OA for the 16 journals listed here. 
• FAQ for authors. 

Cambridge University Press

• Some Cambridge University Press journals -- in the right-hand Access column, check the boxes next to “Open access” and “Contains open access” to identify which journals are covered. 

Company of Biologists

• OA is covered for these journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Elsevier

• Author guide and participating journals here.
• Articles must have an original acceptance date between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2028.

IEEE

• 30 fully OA and 180+ hybrid OA journals.
• Author workflow process.

IOP

• Formerly known as the Institute of Physics.
• Browse or search IOP's list of 95 journals to see the OA options for each.
• Information for authors.

Microbiology Society

• Our Publish & Read agreement provides OA for all six of their journals.
• Submit your article with your @smu.edu email address to qualify.

Oxford University Press

• See participating journals here (.xlsx file).
• Information for authors. Articles must be received into production between 4 February 2025 and 31 December 2028.

Springer

• The author can publish OA in a hybrid journal from across the Springer Nature portfolio.
• Eligible journals and author guide.

Wiley

• See list of Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journals, or choose to publish open access in a hybrid journal.
• Articles must be published in a fully open access journal (submitted on or after 1 January 2023) or published open access in a hybrid journal (accepted on or after 1 January 2023). 

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