Open Access

"Transformative agreement" is an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which former subscription expenditures are repurposed to support open access publishing of the negotiating institutions’ authors, thus transforming the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, gradually and definitively shifting from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services.

Montclair has signed an agreement with Springer Nature to offer Open Access publishing in select journals at no cost to authors through 2027. This agreement, through our participation in the Lyrasis consortia, covers over 2,000 hybrid and Open Access journals that are part of the Springer imprint (Springer, Nature Academic, Palgrave MacMillan, and Adis).*

Criteria for participation are:

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Montclair State University and use their institutional email address during the submission process 
• The manuscript must be accepted by an eligible hybrid journal
• Eligible articles types are original papers, brief communications, review papers and continuing education papers

* Note: the Nature portfolio of journals and BMC journals are not included in the agreement.

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Montclair State University Libraries is participating in the Annual Reviews Subscribe to Open (S2O) program, which provides free access to Annual Reviews journals that become fully funded under the S2O program. Beginning in 2023, all Annual Reviews publications that have reached a subscription threshold will be made Open Access under a Creative Commons license. Volumes from 2025 are currently in production, and with continued support for S2O, will convert to OA as they publish.

What is Subscribe to Open (S2O)?

Through the innovative OA model called Subscribe to Open (S20), developed by Annual Reviews, existing institutional customers continue to subscribe to the journals. When sufficient support has been achieved, every new volume is immediately converted to OA under a Creative Commons license, and is available for everyone to read and re-use. In addition, all articles from the most recent nine volumes are also accessible to all. If subscription support is insufficient, the paywall is retained.

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ACM Open is designed to help institutions support Open Access publishing at scale while ensuring continued access to the premium version of the ACM Digital Library. By removing Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors and offering a transparent, tiered pricing model, ACM Open provides a cost-effective way for institutions to contribute to a more open and accessible computing research ecosystem.