To address equity in Open Access publishing and promote important global research, publication fees for Immediate Open Access under CC-BY license in the Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and the Journal of General Physiology (JGP) are automatically waived for corresponding authors based in eligible developing countries. This includes deposit in PubMed Central (PMC) and archive in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico.
RUP has been a long-time supporter of Research4Life programs by providing online access to JCB, JEM, and JGP at no charge to over 100 countries, with the goal of providing vital scientific research to the developing world.
The expanded policy comes as RUP actively explores Read-and-Publish Agreements for a sustainable framework and to provide benefits to researchers at participating institutions. These include unlimited access to all content published in RUP’s three hybrid journals—Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP)—immediately after publication; research articles by corresponding authors based at participating institutions are published immediate open access under a CC-BY license, directly deposited to PubMed Central (PMC) and subsequently to Europe PMC, and archived in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico; and 100% coverage of research article publication fees for authors within the institution, with no limit to the number of articles that may be published immediate open access.
Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) signed an unlimited Read-and-Publish Transformative Agreement with RUP on behalf of the Max Planck Society. The agreement, which benefits researchers at 86 Max Planck Institutes, runs from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022.
RUP was the first US-based university press to sign a transitional agreement with research and education not-for-profit Jisc, which negotiates OA agreements with publishers on behalf of all UK universities. The two-year pilot agreement runs from March 2020 until February 2022.
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