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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 in open access journals through several agreements available at 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 publish articles in scholarly open access journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs) usually associated with publishing in open access journals.

Current agreements @ UMMC

 

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

Click to view journals covered under 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

Click to view journals covered under The Company of Biologists

 

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

Click to view journals covered under 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

Click to view journals covered under Springer Nature

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

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Note: Approval of APC fees is granted only to those affiliated with UMMC on a first-come, first-served basis. Affiliated authors are individuals who currently work, research, or study as students at UMMC.