Open Access

The Efficiency and Standards in Article Charges Initiative defines a transformative agreement as "an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which former subscription expenditures are repurposed to support open access publishing of the negotiating institutions' authors, thus transforming the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, gradually and definitively shifting from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services."

Currently, CSUDH is a part of three transformative agreements. Please see below for details and of each. This page will be updated regularly to include new agreements and to remove those that have expired.

The current CSU-Elsevier Transformative Read and Publish agreement ends December 31, 2027. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by the CSU
• The article must be accepted for publication into one of the included journals. Use this journal search tool to see if your journal is included
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2022 and December 31, 2027
• Approval is mediated by the University Library. You will be notified by email that your request to publish open access has been approved

The current CSU-American Chemical Society transformative read and publish agreement ends December 31, 2025. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by the CSU
• Includes 60+ hybrid journals published by ACS
• If the author has received grant funding towards publication, this funding must be exhausted before requesting funding support from this agreement
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2022 and December 31, 2025
• Approval is mediated by the University Library. You will be notified by email that your request to publish open access has been approved

CSUDH is part of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)-Wiley transformative read and publish agreement. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by CSUDH or another SCELC participating institution
• Article must be accepted for publication in an eligible Wiley fully OA or hybrid journal (please see list of eligible journals on SCELC guide)
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2024 and December 31, 2026
• Approval is mediated by SCELC and there is no cap on the number of publications approved.
• APC discounts will be provided for grant funded corresponding authors ($1000 of list price APC)
• APC waivers will be provided for unfunded corresponding authors
• If you would like more information about whether your article would qualify for a waiver in a particular Wiley journal, please contact Digital Initiatives Librarian Dana Ospina

The University of California system, California State University, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a four-year transformative publishing agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) terminating on December 31, 2028.

The corresponding author must be a CSU affiliate (it is recommended that authors use their CSU email address)

Article processing charge (APC) waivers are determined as follows:

          OUP Hybrid Journals

• Authors who have research funding available will receive a $1000 contribution toward the APC. Authors will be responsible for the balance of the APC.
• Authors who have no research funding will have the option to have the full APC covered by this agreement

         OUP Fully Open Access Journals

• Authors, regardless of funding status, will receive $750 towards the APC. At this time a full coverage option is not available for fully open access journals.

Oxford University Press has created an author guide explaining the process.