The Caltech Library has several transformative open access (OA) agreements with publishers that shift the scholarly publication process from a subscription service to an open access model. These agreements allow Caltech authors to make all articles and conference papers in the corresponding publications open access immediately at no cost to the author. See below for details on the specific agreements. If you have any questions, please email library@caltech.edu.

American Chemical Society

Caltech Library is part of the American Chemical Society’s Transformative Agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech are able to choose Open Access licensing in all ACS journals, whether hybrid or Gold Open access, for a flat fee. Contact the Library for further details. American Chemical Society press release and website.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

With January 2024, the Library has a 5-year agreement with ASME that includes Open Access publishing at no cost to Caltech corresponding authors. When you submit a manuscript to ASME please use your @caltech.edu email address so that when your paper is accepted you can publish under this agreement. 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

In January 2023, Caltech Library entered into a second three-year Transformative Agreement with the ACM OPEN program. Corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech are able to choose Open Access licensing in all ACM journals and conference proceedings without incurring any fees. Contact the Library for further details. Caltech news release.

Cold Spring Harbor Press

The Library has a new transformative agreement with Cold Spring Harbor Press. The agreement means that the Library’s subscription covers both reading and publishing open access in specific CSH titles. Caltech corresponding authors with accepted manuscripts in Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, Learning & Memory and Molecular Case Studies are eligible to enjoy OA in these titles for no fee. Cold Spring Harbor has a page with additional information. For questions about this program, contact the Library.

Company of Biologists

Caltech Library’s transformative agreement with Company of Biologists eliminates Open Access article processing charges (APCs) for both their hybrid and Gold OA titles. Caltech authors can publish OA, for free, in all Company of Biologists titles, including Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology; Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. Company of Biologists Read & Publish: participating institutions.

The Electrochemical Society

Formerly, the Caltech Library subscription to the ECS Plus package provided access to all of The Electrochemical Society’s online content. In addition, corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech were able to choose Open Access licensing in all ECS publications. In 2023, IOP Publishing, the host of ECS content, entered into a Transformative Agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech or JPL are able to choose Open Access licensing in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology and Journal of the Electrochemical Society without incurring any fees. ECS Advances is currently funded entirely by ECS. Contact the Library for further details. IOP Publishing news release.

IOP Publishing

In 2023, IOP Publishing, the host of ECS content, entered into a Transformative Agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech or JPL are able to choose Open Access licensing almost all of the IOP journals without incurring any fees. This program does not include the American Astronomical Society’s portfolio of journals. Contact the Library for further details. IOP Publishing news release.

International Union for Crystallography (IUCr)

Caltech’s corresponding authors are entitled to a discount on the article processing charges (APCs) for Acta Crystallographica Section E based on the Library’s subscription to Acta Crystallographica Section C.

MDPI

Caltech Library’s membership provides a 10% discount on APCs across all of the MDPI journals for corresponding authors employed by or attending Caltech or JPL. MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP).

PNAS

Caltech Library’s institutional subscription to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides Caltech corresponding authors with a $500 discount off of the APC for immediate Open Access to an article. Currently, this rate is $4995 instead of $5495. PNAS APCs.

The Caltech Library participates in a number of initiatives designed to provide greater access to scholarly material, both for research outputs from the Institute and for global access to Institute scholarly outputs.

• Annual Reviews: Subscribe to Open

Caltech corresponding authors who publish in any Annual Reviews title enjoy some benefits from our Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement. There are no article processing charges for Caltech authors when they publish in Annual Reviews titles. As well, their article will be published as Open Access.

• arXiv: Champion Member
• Astronomy & Astrophysics: Subscribe to Open
• European Mathematical Society Press: Subscribe to Open
• Mathematical Science Publishers (MSP): Subscribe to Open
• MIT Press: Direct to Open monographs
• SCOAP3: Subscription money from select journals converted to publishing support (2014-2024)