Open Access

The University of Michigan receives a 5% discount on article processing charges on Science Advances. Authors should add their affiliation with U-M at checkout to receive the discount.

The new Read & Green agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS) journals allows University of Michigan authors publishing in ACS hybrid journals the option to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository with no embargo and a Creative Commons license of their choice (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND). There is no fee for authors to participate in this program. Please see a full announcement here.
If authors have an NIH grant (or any other grant that requires submission of an electronic version of the Author Accepted Manuscript immediately upon acceptance for publication), publishing a subscription-access article in the hybrid ACS journal will require an author to manually deposit their accepted manuscript into the database (e.g., PubMed Central for NIH-funded research). If an author chooses to publish OA in the hybrid journal, the author will now have access to a reduced APC of $3,000. However, publishing in a fully Gold OA ACS journal will still require payment of APCs at the amount specified by the journal.

Ann Arbor subscribes to all ten S20 journals which allows authors from Ann Arbor to publish in the S20 journals without being charged APCs. Authors will need to specify their institutional affiliation as 'University of Michigan-Ann Arbor" in their profile.

Ann Arbor and Flint subscribe to all six S2O journals and authors from these campuses will not be charged for APCs when publishing in the S2O journals. Authors from the Dearborn campus will not be charged for APC in the Journal of Bacteriology. Authors will need to specify their campus affiliation in their profile.

This agreement enables corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Michigan Ann Arbor & Flint campuses to publish their research articles open access, in perpetuity, in ACM journals, conference proceedings, and magazines, at no cost to the authors. In addition, the university community will continue to receive unlimited and unrestricted access to all content in the ACM Digital Library. This five-year agreement is jointly funded by the College of Engineering, the School of Information, and the U-M Library. Access Step by Step Authors Rights Workflow.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors from all three campuses are now able to publish their articles open access in Biochemical Society journals at no cost. All Society journals are included: Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Bioscience Reports, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, and Emerging Topics in Life Sciences.

The University of Michigan is a BMC member at the "Supporter" level. U-M research staff and students can take advantage of a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charge for BMC journals.

U-M has an institutional Fellowship with BMJ Case Reports. U-M Faculty, Staff, and Students do not have to pay individual Fellowship fees to publish. This does not cover the optional open access fee. Contact Whitney Townsend (whitneyt@umich.edu) or Emily Capellari (eginier@umich.edu) for the BMJ Fellow Number.

U-M affiliates can publish in one of CUP's over 370 gold and hybrid open access at no cost thanks to an agreement through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Link to list of article types and descriptions noting which are eligible to be published under this agreement.

We have a transformative agreement with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press to publish the first 8 articles by U-M corresponding authors without any Article processing fees. Any subsequent articles will receive discounts.

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with DeGruyter which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a full waiver of the Article Processing Charge (APC) in their 285+ hybrid journals and 100+ pure open access journals. Link to list of article types with descriptions that are eligible to be published under this agreement.

The U-M Ann Arbor campus subscribes to six EDP Mathematics journals, allowing authors from the Ann Arbor campus to publish in the journals without being charged APCs. Authors will need to specify their institutional affiliation as 'University of Michigan-Ann Arbor" in their profile.

The University Library has negotiated a new agreement with Elsevier which entitles corresponding U-M authors from all three campuses to a full waiver on the open access fee for articles published in Elsevier core-hybrid journals (Cell Press and Lancet titles are excluded from the agreement). The agreement also entitles corresponding U-M authors of articles published in fully open access journals to a 10% discount on the open access fee.

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with IEEE which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 15% discount on the open access fee for Gold & Hybrid gold journals.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors from all three campuses are now able to publish their articles open access in IOP journals, as well as in many of IOP’s society partner journals, at no cost.

U-M authors from all three campuses are entitled to a full waiver of the open access fee in all Karger journals, both hybrid and fully open access titles.

The University library subscribes to the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) as a shareholder which waives the author processing charge for U-M affiliated authors looking to publish open access in JAFSCD.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors are now able to publish their articles open access in all Microbiology Society journals, both hybrid and fully open access titles.

The University Library has a site license to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), so U-M authors pay the discounted rate for the Immediate Open Access option. The discount does not apply to the Delayed Open Access option.

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with the Royal Society which entitles corresponding U-M authors from all three campuses to a full waiver on the open access fee for articles in Royal Society journals.

Corresponding U-M authors from all three campuses are entitled to a full waiver of the Article Processing Charge (APC) in RSC journals.

The University Library has an agreement which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 10% discount on the open access publishing charge (APC) for articles published in Sage's pure gold open access journals.

SPIE provides full waivers to U-M authors for all journal titles (but not conference proceedings).

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, University of Michigan corresponding authors from all three campuses can now publish their articles open access in Springer hybrid journals at no cost. Articles accepted for publication between April 1, 2025 and December 31, 2026 are eligible. The agreement covers Springer and imprints including Adis, Birkhauser, and Palgrave Macmillan but does not include Nature journals (see title list).

The University of Michigan is a SpringerOpen member at the "Supporter" level. U-M research staff and students can take advantage of a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charge for SpringerOpen journals. This discount applies only to the 200 journals that are SpringerOpen titles; it does not apply to Springer titles that are not Open. A list of Open Access titles covered.

The University Library has negotiated an agreement for U-M Authors from all 3 campuses to publish open access at no cost to themselves in most Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) and fully open access journals. Journals eligible for the discount are listed on the Taylor & Francis site. Please note that F1000 titles are excluded from this agreement. List of article types with descriptions and indicators of whether the type is considered original research or review articles are available at this link.

U-M authors from all three campuses are able to publish open access in any of Wiley's hybrid journals or Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journals without having to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs), thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance List of article types with descriptions and indicators of whether the type is considered original research or review articles can be found at this link.