The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support Open Access publishing. If you are affiliated with a participating institution, you can publish your article Open Access, at no cost to you, in gold and hybrid journals.

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have a corresponding author affiliated with a participating institution as listed above.
• Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
• Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal covered by the agreement.
• Be accepted for publication from January 1, 2021

For more information, visit Cambridge University Press's agreement website.

Due to overwhelming demand, the Libraries is no longer accepting funding requests at this time. We continue to evaluate pending requests. We’re also exploring the feasibility of future opportunities to support researchers with article processing charges for Frontiers publications. If you need assistance with article processing charges, please see Frontiers’ FAQ, Do I Qualify for Fee Support.

This agreement allows CSU researchers to publish an unlimited number of open-access articles (OA) and provides unrestricted access to the Society’s journal portfolio. This deal encompasses all of Microbiology Society’s six journals including Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology and Access Microbiology.

For more information, visit the Microbiology Society’s agreement website.

Corresponding authors affiliated with CSU may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal† (submitted on or after 1 January 2023) or published open access in a hybrid journal (accepted on or after 1 January 2023).

CSU’s supporting membership entitles CSU affiliates to a 15% discount on the article processing charge for articles submitted to any BioMed Central and Springer Open journals. Details on how to take advantage of this discount. 

Authors affiliated with CSU will receive a 10% discount on article-processing charges and book-processing charges. Authors must use their institutional email address to obtain the discount. See here for a list of participating journals and APC charges.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has an agreement with SAGE to support open access publishing. Corresponding authors affiliated with CSU are entitled to a 10% discount on article processing charges (APCs) for publishing an article in one of SAGE's Gold open access journals. This discount will be applied automatically in the SAGE Open Access Portal. Authors are only eligible to receive one discount per article, so only the highest discount available to the author will apply. 

For more information, please visit SAGE's Open Access Agreement page for CARL. 

The SPIE Digital Library contains the world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. Authors affiliated with an institution that subscribes to the SPIE Digital Library are eligible for a 25% discount on the fee to publish open access, reducing it to $1255.