Open Access
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Open Tools from the JH Libraries
The Hopkins Libraries include and maintain open resources in the tools we provide for your use.
- The use of the Directory of Open Access Journals and Unpaywall in our FindIt link resolver
- The inclusion of open resources in Catalyst, our library catalog
- Open Science Framework, a platform to share data and research
- Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, and Omeka
- JHU Data Archive
Discontinued OA programs
JH Libraries has discontinued some Open Access support programs:
- Wiley hybrid journal Open Access APC pilot 2021 - 2023
- This pilot provided limited APC waivers for some journals in the Wiley portfolio.
- The agreement did not meet our goals for financial sustainability.
- We will resume a read-only agreement with Wiley in 2024. Although the APC waiver program is discontinued, the JHU Community will continue to have reading access to all the products JHU has subscribed to in in prior years.
- JH Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF)
- This pilot program provided limited financial assistance to cover APCs from any publisher.
- After a thorough assessment, the library determined this type of support was not financially sustainable.
- Please see our Repositories guide for more information about how the libraries can help researchers make their work open access legally and free.
Do I have to pay to make my publication OA?
No! You do NOT have to pay a publisher a fee to go OA!
Free-to-me pathways
- Choose a Diamond OA journal (see How to determine the OA model offered by a journal box below to figure out which journals are Diamond).
- Publish paywalled, assert your author rights, deposit a version in a repository (Green OA).
- Publish Gold or Hybrid OA if the library provides an APC waiver (see list of covered publishers below).
- Penn State list of publishers that explicitly permit author article sharing without an embargo
Author paid pathways
- Publish Gold or Hybrid OA and pay the APC.
How to determine the OA model offered by a journal
Places to look:
- Journal website
- If it says “fully open access,” it might be Gold or Diamond. If it also mentions Article Processing Charges (APCs), it’s Gold.
- If they have a pitch to authors to “select” OA, it’s Hybrid.
- If it says nothing about OA, it’s traditional, paywalled access.
- JISC Open Policy Finder
- Cabell’s
Find OA journals or confirm the model in DOAJ
- Go to https://doaj.org/search/journals
- To find Diamond OA journals (free to the author) check the “Without fees” filter
Open Access at JHU
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Article Processing Charge (APC) Waiver/Discount |
Eligibility
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
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APC Waiver (i.e., no APC charge) + 25% discount on Page Charges or 50% discount on Page Charges for Members only |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals for the guaranteed APC Waiver include: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Journal of Virology
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APC Waiver (i.e., no APC charge) |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals for the guaranteed APC Waiver include all journals in the subscribed APS Digital Library: “American Journal of Physiology” topics include – Cell Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism; Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; Heart and Circulatory Physiology; Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Regulatory, integrative and Comparative Physiology; Renal Physiology, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Physiological Genomics
N.B. Advances in Physiology Education will continue to be free-to-read and free-to-publish
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals include: Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, and Bioscience Reports
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15% Discount |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
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Discount |
Discount available for BMJ Case Reports only (BMJ journals are not covered by this arrangement)
Fellows and residents who submit articles for publication will need to provide Johns Hopkins University Hospital Fellowship membership. |
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author.
Eligible articles types include: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports
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APC Waiver + Standard OA Fee will be reduced from $3,700 USD to $2,035 USD |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author.
Eligible CSHL journals include: Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, and Learning & Memory
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals include: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
N.B.: American Astronomical Society journals are not included in this agreement
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| The JH Libraries Open Monograph Initiative (JHLOMI) | Provides funding to Johns Hopkins faculty for the publication of new open-access digital monographs. |
Faculty authors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at Johns Hopkins are invited to apply for JHLOMI grants to support the publication of open access monographs. Previously branded as "TOME," the grants provide up to $15,000 per academic monograph—paid to a participating university press on the author’s behalf with 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. Details and application form are available at https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-services/scholarly-communication/jhlomi-grant/. We encourage faculty to email tome@jhu.edu with questions. |
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10% Discount |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author or Contributing Author
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals: Access Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, and International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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APC Waiver / 25% Discount |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals: PLoS Biology and PLoS Global Public Health,
This program extends a 25% discount to your corresponding authors from other institutions where you are a co-author |
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9% Discount |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author, if they choose Immediate Open Access publication option in PNAS. There is no discount for the Delayed Open Access option and for the journal PNAS Nexus |
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APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
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Royal Society of Chemistry |
APC Waiver |
Active/current JHU faculty/staff/student who is the Corresponding Author
Eligible journals: Hybrid, Gold, and including RSC Advances (2025 + 2026) |
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Green Pathways
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Article Processing Charges (APC) |
How To … |
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None! |
Deposit your biology preprint in the bioRxiv preprint server |
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Green OA |
None! |
Publish in a subscription only journal and ask the publisher for permission to deposit your Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in a digital repository
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None! |
Deposit your health sciences preprint in the medRxiv preprint server |
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None! |
Deposit your preprint in an online preprint server like bioRxiv and request that PCI peer review your preprint. |
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Diamond Open Access
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Article Processing Charges (APC) |
How To … |
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None! |
When your preprint is peer reviewed by PCI, it can be expedited to publication in PCI’s diamond OA journal “Peer Community Journal”. |
JH Libraries Support Open Content
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.