Open Access and Scholarly Publishing @ UNO

The UNO Libraries support open access (OA) publishing at UNO through participation in the following agreements with scholarly publishers, which enable UNO authors to publish their articles OA in selected journals at no cost to themselves.

Starting January 1, 2024, University of Nebraska corresponding authors can have their articles published Open Access (OA) in Biochemical Society (Portland Press) journals at no cost, with Article Processing Charges (APCs) covered by the Libraries. This agreement applies to all seven Biochemical Society journals, including the fully OA journals BioScience Reports and Neuronal Signaling.

To qualify for the APC waiver, the corresponding author must be affiliated with a University of Nebraska institution and must specify this affiliation as their "organization" during the submission process. This involves clicking “Validate Institution” and selecting the correct institution from the list provided.

Eligible articles will be published OA under a Creative Commons license, with the author retaining copyright. Corresponding authors can typically choose between a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license. Authors who prefer not to publish OA can opt out by emailing editorial@portlandpress.com.

Starting January 2024, UNO corresponding authors can publish their work Open Access (OA) at no cost in most Cambridge University Press journals. Article Processing Charges (APCs) are covered by the Libraries. Eligible article types include research articles, rapid communications, review articles, brief reports, and case reports with a University of Nebraska-affiliated corresponding author.

Corresponding authors should use their UNO email address and/or ORCID identifier during submission to ensure eligibility for the OA publication charge waiver. For "hybrid" journals offering both OA and non-OA options, authors will be given the choice to publish OA.

For more information, contact unodigitalcommons@unomaha.edu.

Starting September 18, 2023, University of Nebraska corresponding authors may be eligible for a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing Open Access (OA) in most of Elsevier's hybrid journals. The discount applies to articles by University of Nebraska-affiliated corresponding authors.

When submitting, corresponding authors should specify their University of Nebraska affiliation. Upon acceptance, the acceptance email will provide a link to Elsevier's editorial management system. In the "Rights and Access" step, authors must select their University of Nebraska affiliation to apply the APC discount. Authors can choose between publishing under a subscription (paywalled) model at no charge or OA with an APC. OA publications can be under either a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license, with the authors retaining copyright. The discounted APC will be shown after affiliation validation.

For more details, see Elsevier's "Publishing Journey" help page under "Gold Open Access: Discount Agreement."

Participating Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries have established a three-year Read and Publish Agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP), effective from January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2025.

This agreement allows unlimited Open Access (OA) publishing in 58 hybrid and 18 fully OA IOP journals. Eligible corresponding authors from University of Nebraska institutions can publish OA in these journals at no cost. There is no cap on the number of articles published under this agreement. To qualify, the article must be accepted between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2025, with a corresponding author from a participating institution.

To publish at no cost, corresponding authors must identify as BTAA affiliates and use their institutional email during the IOP publishing process.

Ended in 2023 - Big Ten may be renegotiating this agreement. 

University of Nebraska authors whose articles are accepted for publication in the Open Access journals PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine after January 1, 2021 will not be required to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). Articles with a corresponding author affiliated with any of the University of Nebraska campuses, or a corresponding author from another PLOS Community Action Program-member institution, are eligible. If the corresponding author is not from the University of Nebraska or another member institution, but some of the coauthors are, the APC will be discounted.  There is no cap to the number of articles published under this agreement between Cambridge University Press and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. 

Authors should be careful to indicate their institutional affiliation when submitting their articles to PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Sustainability and Transformation to ensure that the publisher’s editorial management system identifies them correctly as eligible for the OA publication charge waiver.  Authors are encourage to submit their articles for open access publishing through the end of 2024.  It is unclear if this agreement will continue in 2025. 

 For more information, contact unodigitalcommons@unomaha.edu.

Starting January 1, 2023, University of Nebraska corresponding authors can publish Open Access (OA) at no cost in Wiley and Hindawi journals. This agreement covers both fully OA ("gold") journals and "hybrid" journals that publish both subscription and OA content. 

Primary research and review articles with a University of Nebraska-affiliated corresponding author are eligible. Authors should specify their institutional affiliation during submission to ensure the publisher recognizes their eligibility. For Wiley OA ("gold") journals, select “My institution or funder has an agreement with Wiley…” and use the provided tool to enter the correct account code. For Wiley "hybrid" journals, authors will choose whether to publish OA after acceptance.

OA articles are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, with authors retaining their rights. Note that the OA option cannot be selected after publication.

For more information, contact unodigitalcommons@unomaha.edu.