This guide explores open-access publishing opportunities available to the College of Charleston campus community through the College Libraries’ Read & Publish agreements. These agreements, also called transformative agreements, combine subscription-based reading and open-access publishing.
The College of Charleston Libraries have Read & Publish agreements with Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature, and Wiley through its partnership with the Carolina Consortium. The Libraries also have agreements with the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and The Company of Biologists.
Yes. Since 2019, the College of Charleston Libraries has supported SCOAP-3, a consortium of thousands of libraries, research centers, and other funding agencies worldwide. SCOAP-3 has worked with publishers in physics to make key journals open access at no cost to authors. Also, the Libraries have active subscriptions to several Annual Reviews, making their journals available for access using the SO2 (Subscribe to Open) business model.
Article Processing Charges (APCs) are fees charged to the authors during the publication process to make their scholarly research openly available. APCs can range from several hundred to several thousand dollars. In most cases, authors can opt out of publishing their research open access. Aside from the Read & Publish agreements and other open-access publishing initiatives detailed in this guide, the College of Charleston Libraries does not financially cover the cost of APCs. However, should other publishers offer Read & Publish subscription models for journals valued by campus researchers, and the costs for subscribing to them align with the materials budget, the Libraries will always consider adding these options. Keep referring to this guide as details about new deals are added as soon as they are publicly available.
Contact Allison Jones, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian, at jonesak@cofc.edu.
