College of Charleston Libraries is an All-Publications subscriber to ACS. In 2023, the ACS-Sponsored Read & Publish was added to the Libraries' ACS subscription. This allows College of Charleston researchers to make any article published in an ACS journal openly available at no additional cost. Learn more about publishing open access with ACS on its Open Access publishing page.
Starting in 2023, Annual Reviews publishes under the (Subscribe to Open) S20 business model. Under this model, subscription payments make articles open access, not APCs. The College of Charleston Libraries provide access to a number of Annual Reviews via their databases and current subscriptions, but at this time, they do not have active subscriptions to the titles that are currently in the Annual Review's Subscribe to Open program. You may submit requests to add access to Annual Reviews through the New Databases & Journals Request Form.
ACM Open allows corresponding authors to publish open access in the journals, conference proceedings, and magazines available in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed instructions for publishing open access with ACM are available on the ACM Open Author eRights Experience page.
Since 2019, the College of Charleston Libraries have supported SCOAP-3, a consortium of thousands of libraries, research centers, and other funding agencies from around the world. SCOAP-3 has worked with publishers in the field of physics to make key journals open access to not cost to authors. Review SCOAP-3 Journals, 2017-2024 for a current list of journals publishing in the SCOAP-3 model and guidelines for authors for each publication.
In 2023, the College of Charleston signed a 3-year (2023, 2024, 2025) agreement with The Company of Biologists. This agreement provides the College of Charleston campus community with uncapped open publishing in their journals Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. More information about publishing open access with The Company of Biologists is available on their Read & Publish for researchers page.
