Expanded Open Access for Research at University Libraries

Montclair State University Libraries is excited to announce that researchers at Montclair now have access to more options for authors to publish and make their research available as Open Access (OA).

Springer Nature

Montclair has signed an agreement with Springer Nature to offer Open Access publishing in select journals at no cost to authors through 2027. This agreement, through our participation in the Lyrasis consortia, covers over 2,000 hybrid and Open Access journals that are part of the Springer imprint (Springer, Nature Academic, Palgrave MacMillan, and Adis).*

Criteria for participation are:

1. The corresponding author must be affiliated with Montclair State University, and use their institutional email address during the submission process, or submit from a University IP address.
2. The manuscript must be accepted by an eligible hybrid journal.
3. Eligible articles types are original papers, brief communications, review papers and continuing education papers.

More information about the Springer agreement can be found here:

• Open Access agreement for Lyrasis
• Springer Nature Open Access Agreements: A Guide for Authors
• Springer Nature’s Guide to Licensing, Copyright, and Author Rights
• List of eligible journals*

Annual Reviews

Montclair State University Libraries is participating in the Annual Reviews Subscribe to Open (S2O) program, which provides free access to Annual Reviews journals that become fully funded under the S2O program. Beginning in 2023, all Annual Reviews publications that have reached a subscription threshold will be made Open Access under a Creative Commons license. Volumes from 2025 are currently in production, and with continued support for S2O, will convert to OA as they publish.

What is Subscribe to Open (S2O)?

Through the innovative OA model called Subscribe to Open (S20), developed by Annual Reviews, existing institutional customers continue to subscribe to the journals. When sufficient support has been achieved, every new volume is immediately converted to OA under a Creative Commons license, and is available for everyone to read and re-use. In addition, all articles from the most recent nine volumes are also accessible to all. If subscription support is insufficient, the paywall is retained.

To learn about the other agreements that the University has for publishing Open Access, see  our guide on Open Access publishing. If your publication isn’t covered by one of our agreements, we encourage authors to share a postprint or author manuscript (“Green” open access) on Digital Commons, our institutional repository. Anything shared on Digital Commons will be indexed by Google Scholar and be discoverable through various databases.

Questions can be directed to Siobhan McCarthy, Scholarly Communications Librarian at mccarthys@montclair.edu. For more information on publishing Open Access at Montclair State University, check out the library’s Open Access guide.

* Note: the Nature portfolio of journals and BMC journals are not included in the agreement.