Cambridge University Press Overview
The Cambridge University Press agreement provides the option for CMU corresponding authors to publish their articles open access. Authors who do not want to publish open access may opt-out and publish their articles as subscription-only behind the journal’s paywall, as they have the option to do now. Non-Corresponding authors of an article published in an Open Access journal published by Cambridge University Press are still eligible to request funding from the CMU APC Fund.
- During the submission process, the authors must correctly identify their institutional affiliation to ensure they are covered under the agreement and do not receive an Article Processing Charge invoice.
- Eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
- Articles in Cambridge journals without a CMU corresponding author can still be made OA by using the CMU APC Fund to apply for funding support.
- All CMU faculty, staff, and students who are corresponding “lead” authors on articles published in Cambridge journals will be able to publish them open access without paying an article processing fee (APC).
- Authors can publish their articles with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) license.
- During the submission process, the authors must correctly identify their institutional affiliation to ensure they are covered under the agreement and do not receive an Article Processing Charge invoice.
- Cambridge University Press provides information and resources on Open Access publication and author workflow to publish articles in CUP journals.
*Articles in Open Access journals without a CMU corresponding author can still be made OA using the Libraries' APC fund to pay some of the OA publishing fees. See CMU’s APC webpage for more information and to apply for APC funds.
See full list of journals supported through CMU's Open Access publisher agreements and memberships.
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If you are unsure whether your article or journal is covered under this CMU publisher agreements, or with other questions, please contact the University Libraries Data and Publishing Services team.
