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The 2024 calendar year limit has been reached for Open Access fee-waived publishing through Springer.
The Springer deal has a maximum number of articles per year that may be published as Open Access under this agreement. The 2024 calendar year limit has been reached. Corresponding authors will no longer see the option to publish Open Access at no charge during their article publishing process. Corresponding authors have two options: 1) they can choose to publish Open Access on their own and pay the APC, or 2) if they are submitting to a hybrid journal, they can choose to publish the article under the traditional subscription access model at no charge, they can choose to publish the article under the traditional subscription access model at no charge, then submit the Accepted [peer reviewed] manuscript version to CWRU's open access repository, Scholarly Commons. For more information on submitting to Scholarly Commons, contact scholarlycomm@case.edu.
Starting in January 2024, CWRU authors through OhioLINK will have the ability to publish open access (OA) in eligible hybrid journals published by Springer (including many Springer, Palgrave, Adis, and academic journals at nature.com) at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. Nature portfolio journals such as Nature itself and Scientific American are not included. Fully open-access journals are not included.
With this agreement, there is a maximum number of articles that may be published open access across all OhioLINK institutions. Once the limit is reached, the option to publish articles open access at no cost under the agreement will no longer be available. Authors may choose to publish behind the subscription paywall or to pay the APC for open access on their own.