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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  
  1. Use this guide to confirm that SMU pays the APCs to publish open access in the journal you are interested in.
  2. Submit your article via the typical submission process for that journal.
  3. If your manuscript is accepted, work with the editorial team of the journal to complete the steps necessary to publish open access by completing the OA publishing agreement and choosing a Creative Commons license. Need help choosing a license or understanding the agreement? Contact the Research and Scholarly Initiatives team.

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

Berghahn Open Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

  • Some of their 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

IEEE

IOP

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

Springer

Wiley

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SMU Scholar

SMU Scholar, our institutional repository, complements traditional publishing. It hosts collections for many SMU colleges and departments, and more can be added.

Your work can still be published in any number of traditional outlets. If you do not sign away your authors' rights, you may be able to store a copy in SMU Scholar, too.