Transformative Agreements (TAs) allow authors to publish open access at no cost to the authors or additional cost to their institutions. These agreements also expanded access for researchers to read articles in journals from these publishers. Currently our TAs are through OhioLINK, the state library consortium, which has negotiated transformative agreements with Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Cambridge University Press, and the Institute of Physics Publishers.
Starting in January 2024 and continuing through the end of 2027, authors at participating OhioLINK member institutions now have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in most of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. Some journals are excluded from open access publishing benefits, such as Cell Press and Lancet journals.
In addition to OhioLINK member institutions' current access to Springer journal titles through the Electronic Journal Center (EJC), OhioLINK has negotiated an upgraded agreement that offers access to over 700 additional electronic journals from Springer Nature along with open access publishing benefits. Starting in January 2024, authors at most OhioLINK member institutions will have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in eligible hybrid journals published by Springer Nature (including many Springer, Palgrave, Adis, and academic journals at nature.com) at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. Nature portfolio journals such as Nature itself and Scientific American are not included. Fully open access journals are not included.
Students, faculty, and staff at most OhioLINK member institutions now have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in 1,300+ hybrid journals published by Wiley at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. Fully open access journals are not eligible for the open access publishing benefits under this deal.
Students, faculty, and staff at most OhioLINK member institutions now have access to current articles published in all 400+ journals published by Cambridge University Press. OhioLINK's Read & Publish deal with Cambridge applies to articles published as "Gold open access," in either fully open access journals or hybrid open access journals. Gold open access refers to articles that are published as open access when the author pays an article publishing charge (APC). This APC allows the journal to make the article openly available without any subscription or fee to read. These articles may be published in either a fully gold open access journal (in which all articles are open access, so there is never a subscription fee for the journal) or a hybrid journal (in which authors have the option to publish as open access, so that the journal has some open access articles and some subscription access articles).
OhioLINK's new upgrade agreement with Institute of Physics (IOP) offers two major benefits for students and faculty at institutions of higher education in Ohio. First, it increases access to important published research from all 70+ Institute of Physics journals for libraries statewide in physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, and mathematics. Second, authors from participating OhioLINK institutions can publish their articles as open access in all eligible IOP journals, without any limit and at no cost to the author and at no additional cost to any institution.