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Scholarly Communication Initiatives

This guide aims to assist you in sharing your work with the global scholarly community.

 

APC Funding Opportunities:

You can publish using one of several Transformative Agreements available through the Rowland Medical Library at no cost.

Transformative Agreements, also known as Read and Publish Agreements, are contracts between academic institutions and publishers. These agreements allow users to read and publish articles in scholarly open access journals. Authors publish without incurring article processing charges (APCs) usually associated with open access journals.

 

Benefits of Publishing through a Transformative Agreements:

  • Publish in open access journals without cost.
  • Publish in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
  • Publish in well-respected journals in a specific field/specialty.
  • Increase article visibility, reach, and citation usage.

 

UMMC Transformative Agreements:

BMJ Case Reports

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website: BMJ

  • UMMC's current agreement will end December 31, 2025
  • APC free open access publishing of Case Reports
  • The corresponding author must be a UMMC affiliate with a UMMC email address

Publishing Open Access with BMJ

 

Cambridge University Press

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website: Cambridge University Press

  • UMMC's current agreement will end December 31, 2027
  • APC free open access publishing
  • The corresponding author must be a UMMC affiliate with a UMMC email address

Publishing open access with Cambridge University Press

 

Company of Biologists

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website: Company of Biologists

  • UMMC's current agreement will end December 31, 2025
  • APC free open access publishing
  • The corresponding author must be a UMMC affiliate with a UMMC email address

Benefits of Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologist

 

Elsevier

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website: Elsevier

  • UMMC's current agreement will end December 31, 2028
  • APC free open access publishing
  • The corresponding author must be a UMMC affiliate with a UMMC email address

Publishing Open Access with Elsevier  

* This agreement does not include fully open access journals ( Gold OA journals).

 

Springer Nature

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website: Springer Nature

  • UMMC's current agreement will end December 31, 2027
  • APC free open access publishing
  • The corresponding author must be a UMMC affiliate with a UMMC email address

Publishing Open Access with Springer Nature

* This agreement does not include Nature-branded journals, BMC journals, and SpringerNature’s fully open access journals.

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Note: Approval of APC fees is granted only to those affiliated with UMMC. Affiliated authors are individuals who currently work, research, or study as a student at UMMC.