The library’s new publishing agreement
Posted: March 3, 2025
Did you know that a significant and expanding benefit available to all ATSU faculty, students, and staff are the library’s agreements with publishers to ensure our researchers are able to publish their work in open access formats for free? This initiative underscores ATSU’s commitment to fostering the widest possible dissemination of scholarly research and advancing the principles of open science.
Our previous agreements included esteemed publishers like Cambridge University Press, Springer, and Wiley, offering ATSU affiliates valuable opportunities for open access publication within their renowned journal portfolios. Building on our commitment to expanding these opportunities, we are excited to announce the addition of a significant new partnership that began in February.
Thanks to ATSU’s active membership in the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), under the guidance of Library Director Hal Bright, who serves on the SCELC board, we have successfully secured an agreement for open access publishing with Oxford University Press. This pivotal collaboration is the result of a concerted effort involving SCELC, the University of California System (UC), and the majority of California State University (CSU) campuses. Together, these institutions have forged a comprehensive four-year transformative open access agreement with Oxford University Press, ensuring that ATSU researchers can contribute to and benefit from the open access movement. This agreement signifies a major step forward in democratizing access to scholarly research. For a more detailed understanding of this agreement, we encourage you to explore the official announcement on the SCELC website.
To facilitate your access to these valuable resources, we have meticulously compiled a list of all our open access publishing agreements. This list provides details and links to the specific journals that qualify for fee-free open access publication under each publisher’s agreement. This resource is designed to streamline the publication process for our researchers, ensuring they can readily identify and utilize the available open access options. We encourage all ATSU faculty, students, and staff to take full advantage of these expanding opportunities to share their groundbreaking research with the global academic community.
For Oxford University Press, specifically:
List of eligible hybrid journals – 2025
List of eligible OA journals – 2025
List of 19 journals that are excluded and ineligible
We hope that you will consider these agreements the next time you would like to publish your work. If you have any questions, please reach out to your liaison librarian.