The Libraries supports open access (OA) publishing, initiatives, and infrastructure in the following ways:<\/p>\n
Publisher OA agreements\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Libraries agreements cover full article processing charges for journals from the publishers below. The agreements are active as of the date the page was last updated. Questions? Contact us<\/a><\/p>\n December 2025 update: Due to recent budget cuts in the Libraries and Springer\u2019s unreasonable pricing of OA publishing, starting January 1, 2026, we no longer have an agreement covering OA publishing charges for Springer & Palgrave journal articles.<\/p>\n MIT Libraries signed a three-year agreement (through December 2028) with AIP Publishing covering article processing charges for all articles with MIT corresponding authors. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.<\/p>\n Workflow for corresponding authors in journals from AIP Publishing: When you submit an article, choose MIT as the institution name; then choose the option that says, “Open Access as part of an Institutional agreement.” More information on the AIP site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n The MIT Libraries has an open access agreement<\/a> with ACM (through December 2028) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.<\/p>\n Under the agreement, ACM will also automatically deposit the manuscripts of all MIT co-authored articles into MIT\u2019s institutional repository, DSpace. And the agreement includes rights for computational (text or data mining) access to the ACM Digital Library. More information on the ACM site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries\u2019 agreement (through December 2027) with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press gives MIT corresponding authors free open access in these journals: Genes & Development, Genome Research, Learning & Memory, RNA. Authors can choose a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license. The publisher will offer corresponding authors the OA option.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries\u2019 subscription to ECS Plus<\/a> provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited credits to publish articles open access.<\/p>\n To take advantage of this, choose Open Access in the submission process:<\/p>\n If authors wish to have their paper published OA if accepted, they should request Open Access Publication, select the desired CC license (ECS offers CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND), and check the box for affiliation with an ECS Plus subscriber institution. If the paper is accepted, there will be no invoice; the system will confirm the affiliation and waive the article processing charge.<\/p>\n More information on publishing OA with ECS Plus<\/a> (PDF from ECS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries support of the journal eLife<\/a> provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited publishing (through April 2027).<\/p>\n To take advantage of this, enter MIT as your institution on the submission page. Once there appears a green checkmark next to “Edit Funder\/Institution,” you will see a note on the publication fee page that the fee is covered by a deal. If you miss this step, staff should catch it during eLife’s checks.<\/p>\n Contact the eLife editorial team<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n More information on publishing and peer review with eLife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries has open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS)<\/a> (through December 2026) that allow MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n MIT Libraries’ agreement (through December 2027) includes full access to RSC\u2019s journals and OA publishing with no fees for authors. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. Author guide flyer from RSC<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries signed a three-year agreement (through December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in hybrid Sage journals to make their articles open access at no cost to them.<\/p>\n Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. Only hybrid OA journals are part of the agreement; those that charge subscription fees as well as fees to publish an article OA.<\/p>\n More information: PDF from Sage<\/a> with workflow + Sage website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries has a one-year agreement (to December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in Taylor & Francis fully OA or hybrid journals to make articles open access at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. The agreement includes 55 OA articles for 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries has a one-year agreement (to December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in Wiley fully OA or hybrid journals to make articles open access at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n Publisher discounts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The discounts below are active as of the date the page was last updated.<\/p>\n MIT Libraries subscribe to “ACS All Publications,” which means ACS members who are currently affiliated with MIT get a $250-$750 discount on ACS “AuthorChoice<\/a>.” AuthorChoice makes the final published version of articles open access immediately or after 12 months. More information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n MIT Libraries\u2019 membership provides currently affiliated MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing fees for Frontiers<\/a> journals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\nAIP Publishing<\/a><\/h3>\n
Association for Computing Machinery<\/a><\/h3>\n
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press<\/a><\/h3>\n
Electrochemical Society<\/a><\/h3>\n
eLife<\/a><\/h3>\n
PLOS<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nAuthor instructions for all other PLOS journals<\/a> (from PLOS)<\/div>\nRoyal Society of Chemistry<\/a><\/h3>\n
Sage<\/a><\/h3>\n
Taylor & Francis<\/a><\/h3>\n
Wiley<\/a><\/h3>\n
American Chemical Society<\/a><\/h3>\n
BioMed Central<\/a><\/h3>\n
Frontiers<\/a><\/h3>\n
MDPI<\/a><\/h3>\n
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)<\/a><\/h3>\n
Royal Society<\/a><\/h3>\n