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Open Access Publishing @ TU: Open Access Support at TU

Office of Research

Reach out to the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs at TU to learn more about subventions and what funding may be available to support publishing Open Access.

Transformative Agreements

Transformative agreements, also known as read and publish agreements, are agreements between publishers and institutions that help shift scholarly publishing from a subscription model to open access.

How they work

Institutions redirect their subscription spending to cover the open access article processing charges (APC) from their affiliated researchers. This allows institutions to maintain access to scholarly content while supporting the transition to open access. 

Learn more about transformative agreements from this article Transformative Agreements: A Primer

Transformative Agreements at TU

Starting in January 2025, TU entered into a transformative agreement agreement with ACM. Under this agreement research articles by TU corresponding authors in all ACM journals, conference proceedings, and magazines will be made open access immediately at no cost to the author. 

Green Open Access

Green Open Access is the term used for sharing a pre-publication version of your journal article in an online repository. The repository can be discipline specific such as arXiv.org (physics) or it can be interdisciplinary like Open Science Framework (OSF). Using a tool like the Open Policy Finder can help you understand where you can share your article and which version you can share. 

Here are some resources to find an open access repository for your research: