The California State University system and Chico State has negotiated open access agreements with the publishers. These transformative agreements cover some or all of the Article Processing Charge (APC) for a specified time, and allow CSU affiliated authors to publish Open Access in approved journals. These agreements were due to the stewardship of CSU Libraries and advocacy of CSU authors and readers.
Currently, Chico State is a part of four transformative agreements. Please see below for details and of each. This page will be updated regularly to include new agreements and to remove those that have expired. For more information reach out to librarian Pam Kruger pkruger@csuchico.edu
What is a Transformative Agreement?
The Efficiency and Standards in Article Charges Initiative defines a transformative agreement as "an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which former subscription expenditures are repurposed to support open access publishing of the negotiating institutions' authors, thus transforming the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, gradually and definitively shifting from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. In other words, authors can publish Open Access since APC fees are waived or covered in some or all under these agreements.
Why publish Open Access?
CSU-Elsevier
The current CSU-Elsevier Transformative Read and Publish agreement ends December 31, 2027. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:
CSU-American Chemical Society
The current CSU-American Chemical Society transformative read and publish agreement ends December 31, 2025. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:
Chico State- The Company of Biologists
The current Company of Biologists transformative read and publish agreement for three years ends December 31, 2026.
The Company of Biologists’ guide-for-authors provides further details on how to submit your work.
CSU/UC/SCELC-Oxford University Press
The University of California system, California State University, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a four-year transformative publishing agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) terminating on December 31, 2028.
The corresponding author must be a CSU affiliate (it is recommended that authors use their CSU email address)
Article processing charge (APC) waivers are determined as follows:
OUP Hybrid Journals
OUP Fully Open Access Journals
Oxford University Press has created an author guide explaining the process.
Special thanks to Dana Ospina of CSUDH for permission to borrow text from a similar LibGuide on this topic.