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Open Access Support @ SDSU

Cambridge Journals 2022 - 2025 Open Access Read & Publish Agreement

 

Active Dates Articles must be accepted for publication between April 1, 2022 and December 31, 2025.
Eligible Journals CUP hybrid or gold open access journal within the full CUP Journals Package. Eligible Cambridge University Press Journals (Filterable list of 386 gold and hybrid journals eligible for a waiver under the agreement.  
Journal Exclusions There are 19 Cambridge titles that don't yet publish OA through the agreement, and they do not show up on the Eligible Cambridge University Press Journals spreadsheet.
APC Discount 100%
Eligible Authors Corresponding authors who are current faculty and staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and/or visiting), and students at SDSU at the time of submission, and you must use your SDSU email address AND list San Diego State University as your affiliation.
Eligible Articles

Primary research including
research articles
review articles
rapid communications
brief reports
case reports.

Book reviews, discussions, editorials, introductions, letters, meeting reports and proceedings are not covered under transformative agreements.  See the Cambridge article type definitions for more detail. 
Article Licenses

CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-ND
CC-BY-NC
CC-BY-NC-SA
CC-BY-NC-ND

Cambridge's Creative Commons Licenses

Author Workflow

Corresponding authors must use their SDSU email address AND list San Diego State University as your affiliation.
When a corresponding author submits their article, they enter their affiliation details into the submission system. Details in the 'affiliation string' that are necessary to identify eligibility include their institutional affiliation and email domain. Once the article is accepted, their affiliation string is automatically assigned a Grid ID/ROR . When it matches to an institution participating in the SCELC agreement, they are offered Open Access publishing at no charge. Author's can also use Cambridge's waivers and discounts page to confirm their eligibility ahead of time and view a list of journals covered by the agreement.
Publishing Workflow Video
Author Information Author guide to submitting under the Cambridge Journals transformative agreement
Additional Resources
For questions, contact Kate Holvoet