Open Access

The American Chemical Society offers a discounted open access fee to MU affiliates since MU is a Subscribing Institution. Members of ACS receive an additional discount. ACS Open Access Fee Chart 

The Greater Western Library Alliance has entered into a transformative agreement with ACM that will cover the Open Access publishing fees. MU authors will be eligible for ACM Open starting in January 2021.

The Health Sciences Library subscription to BMJ Case Reports includes a waiver of the individual membership fee of £273 normally required to publish cases. Submission instructions.

MU Libraries has entered into a transformational "Read and Publish" agreement with Cambridge University Press. This agreement greatly expands electronic access to Cambridge University Press journals and provides 10 APC waivers for MU corresponding authors to publish their work OA.

Because of the limited number of waivers available with this agreement, MU Libraries has decided to support Assistant Professors on a first come, first served basis for 2021. If there are any remaining waivers at the end of 2021, MU Libraries can retroactively make other articles OA with the approval of the author.

Read more about the agreement and see a list of eligible journals

In 2021 and 2022, MU is participating in the Company of Biologist's Read & Publish Open Access Initiative. MU authors can publish OA at no charge. Some of the journals Company of Biologists publishes include Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

MU is a subscriber to ECS Plus, an agreement that allows MU faculty to publish their articles in Electrochmeical Society (ECS) journals (Journal of the Electrochemical Society and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology) as Open Access with no charge to the author. There are no limits on the number of papers that can be published in any given subscription year. Find out more.

MU researchers publishing articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) receive a discounted open access fee of $2,000, compared to the regular fee of $2,500, to make their papers immediately free online. Find out more.