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.

CSU Libraries has entered into a three-year agreement (2023-2025) with The Company of Biologists that allows corresponding authors to publish open access articles free of charge in the following journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open. More information is available in their step-by-step guide for authors.

CSU Libraries has an institutional membership agreement with Frontiers, enabling open access publishing in their journals. Corresponding authors affiliated with CSU can publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost, pending available funding. Due to limited library funding, the Libraries cannot guarantee financial support for all publications. Priority will be given to early career researchers who do not have any other form of funding. To benefit from this agreement, corresponding authors must use their institutional email and select Colorado State University in the payment information section (“Frontiers institutional members”). Additionally, corresponding authors must complete and submit this designated form to be eligible for funding consideration. Solely selecting CSU Libraries as “payer-funder” does not guarantee funding.

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.

CSU Libraries has an agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry for a limited number of vouchers that allow corresponding authors affiliated with CSU to publish articles in their hybrid journals. To take advantage of this agreement corresponding authors must use their institutional email and will be notified of their eligibility upon submission. This agreement expires on December 31, 2023.

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.