JHU Libraries has negotiated a transformative agreement granting an unlimited fee waiver in 2023 - 2025 for articles with a JHU-affiliated corresponding author in almost all IOP journals. Please note: American Astronomical Society journals are not included in this agreement.  IOP subject coverage goes well beyond physics—medicine, mathematics, engineering, and other science fields are also included.

Please use your JHU email address when submitting articles in order to avoid delays. All eligible articles will automatically be made OA unless the author opts out. Please see this handy guide to submitting your article: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/submit-under-a-transformative-agreement-guide/ 

Questions can be directed to scholcomm@jhu.edu.

JHU Libraries has negotiated an unlimited fee waiver in 2023 for all articles with a JHU affiliated corresponding author in Royal Society journals. All open access articles will be free for JHU corresponding authors, and articles will be automatically deposited in PubMed Central.

Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays and direct any questions to  scholcomm@jhu.edu.

JHU Libraries have partnered with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and hundreds of other universities to contribute toward an open access future for the publisher's entire portfolio by joining the ACM Open program. ACM has committed to flipping journal titles to full open access when 75-80% of articles are published openly. JHU-affiliated authors are now able to publish articles openly for free; all JHU affiliates have unlimited reading access to all articles. After the journals convert to fully open, JHU-affiliated authors will still be able to publish articles open access for free, but everyone in the world will have complete, free access to read. 

Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays and direct any questions to  scholcomm@jhu.edu.

The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have signed on to a three year Read & Publish deal with Cambridge University Press in conjunction with the NERL consortium. Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in Cambridge University Press journals beginning January 1, 2022--for free! 

The goal of this partnership is to ensure more of JHU’s research is published open access without added costs to the researcher. The agreement includes access to all Cambridge journals and covers article processing charges (APCs) in fully open access or hybrid open access journals.

JHU authors must opt-in to open access upon article submission to take advantage of this deal. Authors can also retroactively ensure articles are open access if not selected initially (2022 articles only). Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays. Please read submission guidelines carefully; "page charges" and other additional fees are not covered by the APC program described here.

Please direct any questions to  scholcomm@jhu.edu.

The Johns Hopkins Libraries 3-year pilot agreement with Wiley to promote Open Access by reducing article processing charges (APC) for JHU authors ends December 31, 2023. 

JHU-affiliated authors wishing to publish Open Access with Wiley are still eligible for an automatic 5% discount on their APC fees on articles published in 2023. The article must meet the following criteria: 

• JHU researcher is currently listed in JHED and is the corresponding author.
• Article is a research or review paper. 
• Article is accepted by a hybrid Wiley journal.  

The Wiley Author Services system will present JHU authors with information about the discount and the option to participate. Articles will be made Open Access without embargo if you choose this option. Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays. Please click here to view step-by-step instructions on how to identify yourself as a JHU researcher and select Open Access once your article is accepted.  

Any questions or input should be directed to scholcomm@jhu.edu.

JHU TOME Monograph Subvention Grants provide funding to Johns Hopkins faculty for the publication of new open-access digital monographs.

Johns Hopkins University joined the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative in 2020 to facilitate greater access to its faculty’s scholarship through open-access publishing. Faculty authors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to apply for 3 available TOME grants in 2022-23 to support the publication of Open Access monographs. The grants will provide up to $15,000 per academic monograph—paid to a participating university press on the author’s behalf, funding provided by the Office of the Provost—to make a digital copy of the monograph available free of charge under a Creative Commons license through MuseOpen.

For more information about the 2020-22 JHU TOME grant recipients and their work, please see our blog post here.

Details and application form are available at https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-services/scholarly-communication/tome-grant/. We encourage faculty to email tome@jhu.edu with questions. 

PLOS Community Action Publishing Program:

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology or PLOS Global Public Health --for free! 

This program also extends 25% discounts to your corresponding authors from other institutions for papers on which you are a co-author.  

See the FAQ for more details.

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in Microbiology Society Journals--for free! 

Please see eligibility requirements and click here for author instructions. Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays.

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers who are corresponding authors can now choose to publish open access in Company of Biologists journals--for free! 

Please click here for information for authors. Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays.

Below are several journals that offer some type of discount to JHU authors. Please check publisher's website for the most recent details. Please use your JHU email address when submitting to avoid delays.

• MDPI - The MDPI Institutional Open Access Program - 10% discount.

• SpringerOpen - 15% discount on journals in the following collections:

  • SpringerOpen
  • BioMed Central
  • Chemistry Central

• PNAS - because JHU pays for a traditional subscription with PNAS, JHU authors are eligible for a 9% ($500) discount if they choose the Immediate Open Access option. Please see the PNAS’ Author Center for further information. Note: PNAS will also grant waivers for authors who do not have funding to cover APCs (for example, in mathematics and astronomy, or from lower-income countries).

Authors associated with Hopkins School of Medicine should check the Welch Medical Library page for additional discounts applicable only to SoM authors.

The Johns Hopkins Libraries are committed to supporting open scholarship. Below are some of the open resources we financially support. If you'd like to suggest other open content, please contact your department librarian.