{"id":2200,"date":"2016-08-10T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries-test.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?page_id=2200"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:37:19","slug":"oa-publishing-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/oa-publishing-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access publishing support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all publishing, open access (OA) publishing involves costs. Some publishers require that authors or institutions pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) to cover their costs in making scholarly works OA. Others rely on financial support from libraries, universities, funding organizations, or scholarly communities to offer publishing that does not charge fees to the reader or the author.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MIT Libraries helps pay for OA publishing, initiatives, and infrastructure in the following ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Via \u201cdiamond\u201d open access: We support journals and books that are free to read and have no author-facing fees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Via publisher OA agreements: We sign agreements with publishers that pay for free or discounted OA journal publishing for MIT authors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Via financial support to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/open-infrastructure-initiatives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">open scholarly infrastructure and initiatives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> around the world: We understand the importance of the infrastructure to an open, robust, and reproducible scholarly communications ecosystem and these components also have costs that should be funded<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Diamond open access<\/strong> <strong>(no reader or author facing fees)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We fund the publishers and initiatives below to help them make articles, journals, and books free to read and free to publish in. Find more diamond OA journals and publishers in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doabooks.org\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Directory of Open Access Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libanswers.mit.edu\/ask-scholarly-communications\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Bloomsbury Open Collections<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries supports Bloomsbury&#8217;s collaborative funding initiative to make its African Studies and International Development collection of books open access. This collection consists of 20 titles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/discover\/bloomsbury-academic\/open-access\/bloomsbury-open-collections\/\"> More information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Knowledge Unlatched<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries supports Knowledge Unlatched, which coordinates a coalition of libraries that share the costs of making books and <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledgeunlatched.org\/stem\/\">journals<\/a> open access. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeunlatched.org\/\">More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">KOALA consortium<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">The Libraries supports making computer science and mathematics journals open access without author fees via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tib.eu\/en\/services\/koala\">KOALA consortium<\/a>, based in Germany.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Language Science Press<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries&#8217; support contributes to Language Science Press\u2019s ability to offer open access publishing opportunities for books and journals related to linguistics. <a href=\"http:\/\/langsci-press.org\/index\"> More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">MIT Press Direct to Open<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"p1\">MIT Libraries contributed $100,000 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/books\/pages\/direct-to-open\">MIT Press initiative Direct to Open (D2O)<\/a>. These funds were used to encourage participation in D2O by smaller and less well-resourced institutions by subsidizing their participation.<\/p>\n<p>The Libraries has previously funded the MIT Press <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/press-launch-print\/28505\/\">Strong Ideas series<\/a>, as well as funding an additional 5-10 scholarly OA monographs each year. A sample of titles made open through this funding include: The <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/mobile-workshop\">Mobile Workshop<\/a> (Mavhunga, 2018), <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/resonant-games\">Resonant Games<\/a> (Klopfer, 2019), <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/does-america-need-more-innovators\">Does America need more innovators?<\/a> (Wisnioski, 2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Open Access Community Investment Program<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">The Libraries supports diamond open access journals (which are both free to read and publish in) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyrasis.org\/content\/Pages\/oacip.aspx\">Lyrasis OACIP<\/a>, a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders to strategically evaluate and collectively fund open access.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Open Book Collective<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">The Libraries supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbookcollective.org\/\">Open Book Collective<\/a>, which brings together an international group of OA book publishers, open publishing service providers, and knowledge institutions.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">The Libraries supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/oecs.mit.edu\/\">Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science<\/a> from MIT Press, an OA resource that updates the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. OECS covers AI &amp; cognitive modeling, cognition, emotion, language, neuroscience, perception and more.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Open Journal Collective<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">The Libraries funds the <a href=\"https:\/\/openjournalscollective.org\/\">Open Journal Collective<\/a>, an international collective of scholars, libraries, university presses, and non-profit academic publishers that support open access, community-led academic journals with no author-facing fees.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Open Library of the Humanities<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries&#8217; financial support contributes to OLH&#8217;s ability to offer open access publishing to authors without payment of publication fees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlibhums.org\/plugins\/supporters\/\"> More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">SCOAP3<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries&#8217; support helps SCOAP3 (the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) offer open access publishing opportunities for journals and books related to high-energy physics. <a href=\"https:\/\/scoap3.org\/what-is-scoap3\/\">More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Taylor &amp; Francis Pledge to Open<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Libraries supports Taylor &amp; Francis\u2019s OA book publishing program, a collaborative funding pilot that aims to make 70 books open access across seven collections, including green renewable energy, climate change, women&#8217;s health, race and racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com\/open-research\/choose-open-access\/open-access-choices-for-researchers\/open-access-books\/pledge-to-open-pilot\/\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher OA agreements\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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? <a href=\"https:\/\/libanswers.mit.edu\/ask-scholarly-communications\">Contact us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 2025 update: Due to budget cuts in the Libraries and Springer\u2019s unreasonable pricing of OA publishing, as of January 1, 2026, we no longer have an agreement covering OA publishing charges for Springer &amp; Palgrave journal articles.<\/p>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">AIP Publishing<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>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<p>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, &#8220;Open Access as part of an Institutional agreement.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.aip.org\/resources\/researchers\/open-science\/read-and-publish\/authors\/\">More information on the AIP site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Association for Computing Machinery<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The MIT Libraries has an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2020\/mit-framework-publisher-contracts-yields-new-open-access-model-0224\">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<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.acm.org\/subscriptions-access\/acmopen\">More information on the ACM site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries\u2019 agreement (through December 2027) with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press gives MIT corresponding authors free open access in these journals: Genes &amp; Development, Genome Research, Learning &amp; 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<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Electrochemical Society<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries\u2019 subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrochem.org\/publications\/oa\"> ECS Plus<\/a> provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited credits to publish articles open access.<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of this, choose Open Access in the submission process:<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrochem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ECS-Plus.pdf\">More information on publishing OA with ECS Plus<\/a> (PDF from ECS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">eLife<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries support of the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/\"> eLife<\/a> provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited publishing (through April 2027).<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of this, enter MIT as your institution on the submission page. Once there appears a green checkmark next to &#8220;Edit Funder\/Institution,&#8221; 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&#8217;s checks.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:Editorial@elifesciences.org\">the eLife editorial team<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/about\/peer-review\">More information on publishing and peer review with eLife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">PLOS<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries has open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.org\/\">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<div class=\"content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1k4A0vEI12Z6Cfd5aiV9yuSu0ysGkzWLxODPYTAQ3jws\/edit#slide=id.gbb4687601a_1_0\">Author instructions for PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, Sustainability and Transformation<\/a> (from PLOS)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/128jRfOE74wvzaFQa2-uzJZgodOzWW2E41Ri-HFIa0Ao\/edit#slide=id.gba23692b49_0_588\">Author instructions for all other PLOS journals<\/a> (from PLOS)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Royal Society of Chemistry<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries&#8217; 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsc.org\/globalassets\/05-journals-books-databases\/librarians-information\/promotional\/read-and-publish-toolkit\/rp-workflow-flyer-210x297mm.pdf\">Author guide flyer from RSC<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Sage<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>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<p>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<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/qbritycg441j7pxgqr2qq\/Sage-Open-Access-Portal-Hybrid-User-Guide-for-authors.pdf?rlkey=wmcv1liq1npoc0zb2aep1u07i&amp;dl=0\">PDF from Sage<\/a> with workflow + <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/massachusetts-institute-of-technology\">Sage website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Taylor &amp; Francis<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries has a one-year agreement (to December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in Taylor &amp; 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<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Wiley<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher discounts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The discounts below are active as of the date the page was last updated.<\/p>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">American Chemical Society<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries subscribe to &#8220;ACS All Publications,&#8221; which means ACS members who are currently affiliated with MIT get a $250-$750 discount on ACS &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/page\/4authors\/authorchoice\/index.html\">AuthorChoice<\/a>.&#8221; AuthorChoice makes the final published version of articles open access immediately or after 12 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/acsopenscience.org\/open-access\/pricing\/\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">BioMed Central<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries\u2019 membership provides current MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing fees for BMC journals and SpringerOpen journals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/about\/institutional-support\/membership\/1600010533\">More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Frontiers<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>MIT Libraries\u2019 membership provides currently affiliated MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing fees for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/\">Frontiers<\/a> journals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">MDPI<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries is an institutional member of MDPI. Our membership provides current MIT authors with a 10% discount on article processing charges for MDPI journals, and discounts on book publishing charges. MDPI publishes open access journals and books in the sciences.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries\u2019 site license provides current MIT authors with a discount on the optional immediate open access processing fees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/authors\/fees-and-licenses\">More information on the PNAS site<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Royal Society<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">MIT Libraries&#8217; membership supports Royal Society&#8217;s Subscribe to Open program, which in 2026 makes <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/journals\/librarians\/purchasing\/subscribe-to-open\/\">eight subscription journals fully OA<\/a> with no article processing charges for authors. APCs will still be charged for publishing in Open Science and Open Biology, and current MIT authors get a 25% discount.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<section class=\"expandable\">\n<h3><a href=\"#\">Springer<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>December 2025 update: Due to budget cuts in the Libraries and Springer\u2019s unreasonable pricing of OA publishing, as of January 1, 2026, we no longer have an agreement covering OA publishing charges for Springer &amp; Palgrave journal articles.<\/p>\n<p>MIT Libraries has an agreement that provides current MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing charges for BioMed Central, Discover, and Springer <a href=\"https:\/\/resource-cms.springernature.com\/springer-cms\/rest\/v1\/content\/27820860\/data\/v3\">fully open access journals listed on this page<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Nature journals are not included in the discount.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"expandable\"><\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIT Libraries funds for OA articles and books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to budget cuts in the Libraries, the open access articles fund was suspended starting July 1, 2025, and support for OA monographs is reduced. We are no longer accepting applications for individual OA monograph funds. As noted above, we still have publisher OA agreements that cover full or partial APCs.<\/p>\n<h6>Page last updated on September 10, 2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We gratefully acknowledge the Utrecht University Library, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/en\/university-library\/advice-support-to\/researchers\/open-access\/funding-open-access\">OA funding web page<\/a> was an inspiration for ours.<\/h6>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all publishing, open access (OA) publishing involves costs. Some publishers require that authors or institutions pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) to cover their costs in making scholarly works OA. Others rely on financial support from libraries, universities, funding organizations, or scholarly communities to offer publishing that does not charge fees to the reader or the author. 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