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New open access resources available to University of Miami authors

Open Access Publishing with The Company of Biologists

The University of Miami Libraries have secured a transformative agreement with The Company of Biologists (COB) for 2024 through 2026. Under this agreement the Libraries cover article processing costs (APCs) to COB’s five journals, enabling University of Miami corresponding authors to publish an unlimited number of open-access (OA) research articles in COB's journals.

Key guidelines include:

- The corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Miami (current staff members, researchers, faculty, or students at the University of Miami at the time of article submission). 

- Corresponding authors must use their University of Miami email address during submission.

- A step-by-step guide for authors is available.

- Use the provided links to access the submission system for your selected journal:

• Development
• Journal of Cell Science
• Journal of Experimental Biology
• Disease Models & Mechanisms 
• Biology Open 
   

Questions?  Contact us.
 

The funding designated for covering the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Frontiers' articles has been exhausted. Thus, University Libraries will no longer approve new requests for covering APCs to publish Open Access (OA) in Frontiers' journals.

The Libraries' OA agreements with the following publishers are still available:

• Institute of Physics (IOP) — IOP publishes more than 75 journals; University of Miami authors can publish open access articles in IOP journals through 2025.
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) — The PLOS agreement enables University of Miami authors to publish in any of 12 journals with article processing charges covered by the Libraries; this agreement is effective through 2024.

All corresponding authors who are current staff members, researchers, or students at the University of Miami at the time of submission, can publish open access in IOP journals at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the author who submits the manuscript and is responsible for communicating with the journal during the submission, peer review and publication process.

What this publishing program includes:

• Articles accepted beginning January 1, 2023 will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves.
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types.
• Full title list of eligible IOP journals

*Please note
A small number of journals attach additional charges including, but not limited to, page charges. These remain payable by the authors.
You may find IOP's author guide submitting under a transformative agreement helpful. It is located in the transformative agreement hub.

The University of Miami, along with six other prestigious institutions (Notre Dame, UPenn, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Syracuse, and Temple), has forged a groundbreaking agreement with Springer through the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL) Consortium.  Under this arrangement, the institutions collectively cover APC payments for a specified number of articles annually: 693 in FY2024, 892 in FY2025, and 905 in FY2026.
 
This means that corresponding authors affiliated with participating institutions can publish their articles in Open Access (OA) format, with fees covered, across Springer's hybrid journal portfolio. Additionally, full access to all subscription journal content from Springer is provided.

If you're a corresponding author affiliated with the University of Miami, you can publish your articles in OA format at no cost in over 2,000 Springer journals designated as hybrid open access. 
 
Key guidelines include:
 
• Upon acceptance of any article on or after March 22, 2024, authors must opt for open access publication, specify the University of Miami as their institution, and register using their University of Miami email address.

• Eligible corresponding authors must be current students or current employees of the University of Miami at the time of article submission.

• The chosen journal must qualify as a hybrid open access journal.
 
Detailed information and author instructions 

Questions?

The University of Miami Libraries will cover the article processing charges (APCs) for the first 195 articles submitted for open access publication between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, to either Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journals or Wiley hybrid journals.

Qualified articles must have a University of Miami corresponding author. Eligible corresponding authors must be current students or current employees of the University of Miami at the time of article submission. The corresponding author should include a University of Miami email address in the article. Research and review articles receive priority for approval of open access publishing support. Once 195 open access articles have been approved, authors will be required to pay any subsequent open access article processing charges as these charges cannot be covered by the Libraries.

*Please note
This program ends on December 31, 2026, and the number of articles covered for 2025 and 2026 are yet to be determined.