UM-Dearborn faculty will not be charged for APCs when publishing in the Journal of Bacteriology. Authors will need to specify their campus affiliation in their profile.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors from all three campuses are now able to publish their articles open access in Biochemical Society journals at no cost. All Society journals are included:

• Biochemical Journal
• Biochemical Society Transactions
• Bioscience Reports
• Clinical Science
• Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
• Essays in Biochemistry
• Neuronal Signaling

More information can be found here:
https://portlandpress.com/librarians-and-readers/pages/read_and_publish

U-M affiliates can publish in one of Cambridge University Press' gold or hybrid open access journals at no cost thanks to an agreement through the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

More information can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/read-and-publish-agreements/oa-agreement-btaa

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with DeGruyter which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a full waiver of the Article Processing Charge (APC) in their 285+ hybrid journals and a 15% discount on the APC in their 100+ pure open access journals.

More information can be found here:
De Gruyter Journals Funding and Support

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with Elsevier which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 10% discount on the open access fee. You can use Elsevier's Journal Search Tool to find eligible titles.

More information can be found here:
https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/university-of-michigan

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with IEEE which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 15% discount on article publishing charges (APCs) for Open Access articles. This applies to any Hybrid OA and Fully OA articles that are accepted for journal publication on or after June 29th, 2023.

More information can be found here:
https://open.ieee.org/

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors from all three campuses are now able to publish their articles open access in IOP journals, as well as in many of IOP's society partner journals, at no cost.

More information can be found here:
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/researchers-from-the-united-states/

U-M authors from all three campuses are entitled to a full waiver of the open access fee in all Karger journals, both hybrid and fully open access titles.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors are now able to publish their articles open access in all Microbiology Society journals, both hybrid and fully open access titles.

More information can be found here:
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/publishing-costs#2

The University Library has negotiated an agreement with the Royal Society which entitles corresponding U-M authors from all three campuses to a full waiver on the open access fee for articles in Royal Society journals.

Because of an agreement by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, U-M authors from all three campuses are entitled to a full waiver of the Article Processing Charge (APC) in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals.

More information about RSC's Read & Publish agreement can be found here:
https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access-publishing/read-and-publish/

The University Library has an agreement which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 10% discount on the open access publishing charge (APC) for articles published in Sage's pure gold open access journals.

Thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, University of Michigan corresponding authors from all three campuses can now publish their articles open access in Springer hybrid journals at no cost. Articles accepted for publication between April 1, 2025 and December 31, 2026 are eligible. During the submission process, the author should identify their U-M affiliation and, if possible, use their umich.edu email address.

The agreement covers Springer and imprints including Adis, Birkhauser, and Palgrave Macmillan but does not include Nature journals Please consult the following title list:
https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/26206374/data/v11.

The University Library has negotiated an agreement which entitles U-M authors from all three campuses to a 10% discount on the open access article publishing charge (APC) for articles published in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals.

Journals eligible for the discount are listed on the Taylor & Francis site:
https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openselect

More information about this deal can be found here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/members/university-of-michigan

U-M corresponding authors are able to publish in Wiley's hybrid and fully open access journals (including Hindawi journals) at no cost to them, thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance. This agreement covers articles that are accepted for publication in hybrid journals or submitted to fully open access journals between January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025

A list of Wiley hybrid journals can be found here:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-OnlineOpen.xlsx

A list of Wiley and Hindawi Full Open Access journals can be found here:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-Open-Access.xlsx

More information about this deal can be found here:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/btaa-agreement.html