These transformative agreements were negotiated by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Each publisher agreement has specific article specifications and processes, please read the following to learn more. These transformative agreements are a wonderful opportunity to support and promote LMU scholarship. In order to benefit from these transformative agreements, the Loyola Marymount University author must be the corresponding author. Each transformative agreement has different expiration dates. If you have any questions, contact scholarly communications librarian Jessea Young, especially before submitting your article.
For a detailed description of the SCELC Transformative Agreements, designed for a library audience, see the SCELC Transformative Agreements LibGuide.
Any LMU corresponding authors are offered open access publishing at no charge for Hybrid and Fully open access Association of Computer Machinery Conference Proceedings, Journals, and Technical Magazines. Authors can view the list of titles eligible for Open Access publication. During the submission process, their institutional affiliation and email are used to automatically associate with the SCELC agreement. The author is instructed to select "Institutionally Paid Open Access"/Permissions Release. ORCID is required for the corresponding author. Learn more about the ACM Read & Publish Open Access Agreement from SCELC.
UPDATE: For articles accepted between July 1 and December 31, 2025, full APC (Article Processing Charge) coverage will no longer be available under the current agreement. If you have submitted a manuscript that is still under review or plan to submit one later this year, please be aware that open access support will be reduced during this period.
Any LMU corresponding author who wishes to publish open access in all 79 subscription-based and fully open access ACS journals can do so through a discounted APC (article processing charge) of $3,000.
Any LMU corresponding authors are offered open access publishing at no charge. During the submission process, their institutional affiliation and email are used to automatically associate with the SCELC agreement and, upon acceptance, offered open access publishing. Original research articles are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports. Authors can use Cambridge’s waivers and discounts page to confirm their eligibility ahead of time and view a list of the 387 journals covered by the agreement.
Any LMU corresponding author are offered open access publishing at no charge for hybrid open access journals and, depending on SCELC funding, fully open access journals. This agreement does not include open publishing in Lancet and Cell Press journals. Authors can view of eligible list of Elsevier Hybrid Journals and Elsevier Fully Open Access Journals. When submitting an article, the corresponding author must be affiliated with Loyola Marymount University. Use your LMU email address to automatic access to the Elsevier TA benefits. Authors cannot switch the corresponding author after submission to an Elsevier journal.
Limitations:
The number of open access articles published in a hybrid journals (where open access is optional) is unlimited. However, there is limited funding for publishing in fully open access journals (where open access is mandatory) from SCELC. Funding is first come-first served based on when the article is accepted. This means authors submitting to a fully open access Elsevier journal should be prepared to pay the APC at acceptance in the unlikely event that the number of fully open access journal articles published by SCELC institutions exceeds the limit in any given calendar year. Authors of articles in fully open access journals may submit expecting to have their APC covered, only at acceptance that the only way to publish their article in that journal is for them to pay the 10% discounted APC, because SCELC funding is been depleted. Authors should contact Jessea Young to gauge SCELC funding availability to fund fully open access joural articles before submitting to a fully open access Elsevier journal. Additional information may be located in the SCELC Elsevier LibGuide.
LMU authors can now publish open access for free or at a discount with Emerald Publishing. SCELC negotiated an agreement in which open access article processing charges (APCs) are free for corresponding authors from LMU for the listed hybrid journals. For Emerald's 11 fully open access journals, authors will receive a 5% APC discount.
To be eligible for the Emerald benefits, LMU authors must be the corresponding author. Articles need to be accepted between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2027. The process to receive the benefits is automated, based on the corresponding author's institution and their LMU email address. Emerald Publishing has set up an information page for SCELC institutions.
Any LMU corresponding authors are offered open access publishing at no charge. During the submission process, their institutional affiliation and email are used to automatically associate with the SCELC agreement and, upon acceptance, offered open access publishing. In addition to research articles, letters, papers, reviews, and special issue articles are all eligible. Authors can use IOP Publishing Journal Finder (click 'Select Institution' and type in 'Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium') to confirm the 70+ journals covered by the transformative agreement. This transformative agreement excludes American Astronomical Society Journals and Hybrid Society titles.
SCELC, CSU and UC have negotiated a cooperative transformative agreement with Oxford University Press, providing free or discounted open access article processing charges for articles accepted between Feburary 4, 2025 to December 31, 2028. LMU authors must be the corresponding author to benefit from this agreement. These are the following eligible article types: research article, review article, case report or brief report.
Please note there are 19 titles not covered under the agreement. More information about the Oxford University Press Transformative Agreement.
The Springer Nature Transformative Agreement allows any LMU corresponding author to publish open access free of charge. The agreement covers 2068 hybrid journals contained within Springer, society-owned “Academic Journals on Nature.com”, Adis, and Palgrave collections. The agreement does not cover the 279 fully open access journals in the Springer portfolio. Upon submission, authors should use their LMU email address to recieve the benefits of the transformative agreement.
Before submitting an article to a Wiley journal, do not hesitate to contact scholarly communications librarian Jessea Young to learn about the Wiley author submission workflow to check your eligibility for free open access publishing. The LMU author must be the corresponding author to receive the benefits.
LMU authors may publish original research and review articles open access in over 1600+ Wiley journals at no charge to the author. Wiley defines original research as a research article, review article, commentary, short communication, case study, technical note, education, data article, lecture, method and protocol, perspective, practice and policy, and rapid publication. SCELC compiled a list of Wiley article type descriptions.
Eligibility Identification
The author must request funding on submission of their manuscript. Under "Choose a Payment Option" there is a field for institution code, LMU's institutional code is SSAP.
The author will be invited to use transformative agreement benefits upon acceptance of their manuscript. If the author does not have grant funding to pay he APC, there is a SCELC Open Access Coverage Form they must fill out in the Author Services dashboard. It takes Wiley 48 hours to process the SCELC Open Access Coverage Form.