Read and Publish agreement with Wiley covering APCs for the first 4 A&M-SA open access articles per year. More details coming soon!
TAMU-system level agreement with Pressbooks for Open Educational Resources. New shared platform for Pressbooks dissemination! We will have 4 book templates that can be created without cost to the authors. As of Februrary 2025, we have 3 templates remaining.
If you have any questions about these two new agreements, please contact Deirdre McDonald.
The Texas A&M University-San Antonio Library is committed to helping you get your work out to the world. One way we do this is by supporting Open Access publishing. We have agreements in place with some publishers to completely cover (Cambridge, Springer, Wiley, ACM) or offer reduced (Elsevier/MDPI) Article Processing Charges (APCs), making Open Access publishing an affordable option for our faculty. If the journal you want to publish with doesn't offer an Open Access option, we can also work with you to get a version of the article uploaded into our institutional repository, Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Faculty interested in creating Open Access books are encouraged to use our system-wide agreement to offer no-cost-to-faculty Pressbook shells. If you have any questions about Open Access publishing, please get in touch with your subject librarian or with Deirdre McDonald, Head of Research Services.
100% of your APCs with Cambridge University Press journals are covered under our Read and Publish agreement. This agreement allows you to choose open access options with hundreds of CUP journals with no cost to you. There are just a few conditions that you need to consider before submitting. Your work must:
That's it! To take advantage of this program, just submit your articles through CUP's regular submission system, making sure to use Texas A&M University-San Antonio as your affiliation. Once your article is accepted, you'll get additional instructions on how to take advantage of the Read and Publish agreement. If you have any questions or run into any obstacles during the process, please get in touch. Students are also eligible for this agreement. Please use your Jaguar email to create an account and contact the library if you have any difficulties with authentication.
Each year, we will have 100% of the APCs for four journal articles covered under our Springer Read and Publish agreement. This agreement allows you to choose open access options with hundreds of Springer journals with no cost to you. There are just a few conditions that you need to consider before submitting. Your work must:
To take advantage of this program, just submit your articles through Springer's regular submission system, making sure to use Texas A&M University-San Antonio as your affiliation.
Please note: As of February 2025, we have reached our 4 article limit for Springer journals. If you are submitting after that time, you can still select the option for us to cover your APCs. Our agreement may allow for coverage for a few articles beyond our initial four, but we can't promise anything beyond the first four. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
As part of the Texas Library Coalition for United Access (TLCUA) agreement with Elsevier, Texas A&M University-San Antonio affiliated faculty now have access to discounted article publishing charges for many Elsevier journals. Hybrid journals qualify for a 10% reduction in fees, and Gold OA journals qualify for a 15% reduction in fees. To qualify, you must be the corresponding author. Please contact the library if you have any questions.
Publish your work with any MDPI journal and get reduced fees on your APCs. To qualify for the fee reduction, at least one author must have institutional affiliation with A&M-SA. Institutional discounts are applied automatically, so there is nothing else you will need to do to qualify.
You can find a list of MDPI journals here.
We have entered into a transformational publishing agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that will cover article processing charges when publishing research articles with ACM journals. This agreement is part of ACM Open, a new initiative from the association to make their publications open access.
If you are interested in submitting to ACM and publishing open access, the only thing that you will need to do is to make sure that you are using your A&M-SA email address. This will allow ACM to recognize you as part of this agreement. After that, you will receive more information from the publisher on how to proceed. If you have any questions or problems with the submission process, please let us know.
We now have a TAMU-system level agreement with Pressbooks for Open Educational Resources along with a new shared platform for Pressbooks dissemination! We will have 4 book templates that can be created without cost to the authors. As of Februrary 2025, we have 3 templates remaining.
Pressbooks are an ideal solution for a faculty member or department that wants to create open educational resources like textbooks, lab manuals, and workbooks. Like all self-publishing, Pressbook materials may not count for tenure publishing requirements so please be sure to check with your department if this is a concern for you. If you have an idea for a Pressbook, please get in touch with Deirdre McDonald to discuss your proposal.