The Johns Hopkins University Libraries in conjunction with the NERL consortia have signed on to a three year Read and Publish deal with Cambridge University Press. 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. 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 CUP 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).

The Johns Hopkins Libraries is now in year two of a three year agreement with Wiley to promote Open Access by paying or reducing article processing charges (APC) for JHU authors. During this time, part of the subscription fee the Libraries pay Wiley to read their journals will be diverted to cover article processing charges (APCs) for articles that meet the following criteria:

• JHU researcher is currently listed in JHED and is the corresponding author
• Article is a research or review paper (Wiley categorizes these as "original articles")
• Article is accepted by a hybrid Wiley journal after January 1, 2022.

The Wiley Author Services system will present JHU authors with information about this program and the option to participate. Articles will be made Open Access without embargo if you choose this option.
The goal of this pilot is to determine how sustainable this method of funding journal publishing is. Funding is finite, and we will cease funding when we run out.

Once funding is depleted authors wishing to publish Open Access with Wiley have the option to use the discount code 21218 for a 5% discount on their APC fees. 

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. Five monograph subvention grants will be awarded by the Johns Hopkins Libraries over two academic years, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, with funding from the Office of the Provost. The grants will provide up to $15,000 per academic monograph—paid to a participating university press on the author’s behalf—to make a digital copy of the monograph available free of charge under a Creative Commons license through MuseOpen.

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. 

Johns Hopkins Libraries have joined the PLOS Community Action Publishing program. Our participation in this program ensures that articles accepted by PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology with corresponding authors from Johns Hopkins, will not be charged an APCs. This program also extends discounts to your corresponding authors for papers where you are a co-author. See the FAQ for more details.

Below are several journals that offer some type of discount to JHU authors. Please check publisher's website for the most recent details.

MDPI - The MDPI Institutional Open Access Program gives JHU authors a 10% discount on APCs.

SpringerOpen - Johns Hopkins University researchers and students receive a 15% discount on article processing charges in journals that are part of:

• SpringerOpen
• BioMed Central
• Chemistry Central

Nucleic Acids Research - Author charges are $1385 per article, a 50% discount. This applies only to the journal Nucleic Acids Research and does not include other NAR titles.

PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine - The Johns Hopkins Libraries participation in PLOS' Community Action Publishing program means JHU corresponding authors will not be charged an APC

PNAS - As of 1/2021, the discounted OA fee JHU authors should pay to make their PNAS article immediately Open Access is $2000, per their Instruction for Authors, page xix.  Please remember that all PNAS articles become freely available 6 months after publication. 

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.

As a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Johns Hopkins Libraries are a signatory by proxy to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

Johns Hopkins Scholarly Communications Group's response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research.

Johns Hopkins' response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information: Public Access to Digital Data Resulting From Federally Funded Scientific Research.