Research published by corresponding authors based at the University of Wyoming will be made open access at no additional cost, owing to a new partnership between UW Libraries and Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Through the read-and-publish agreement, UW authors have the opportunity to publish open access (OA) in CUP hybrid and gold journals at no additional cost to themselves or the university. The agreement was made with the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, of which UW Libraries is a participating institution, to support OA publishing. The agreement with CUP is effective immediately.
The agreement covers the article processing charges for affiliated corresponding authors whose research articles are accepted for publication in CUP hybrid and gold journals during the three-year agreement term.
Additionally, the agreement will sustain access to the CUP complete journals package for UW faculty, students and staff on a multiyear basis.
The agreement secures new open publishing benefits for UW faculty at sustainable cost. For CUP, the agreement accelerates its own transition to being a majority open journals publisher. More broadly, the agreement takes a positive step toward removing barriers to knowledge, allowing anyone, anywhere, to access UW research published OA, regardless of an individual’s or institution’s ability to pay subscription costs.
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