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Writing and Publishing: Read and Publish/Open Access Agreements

Read and Publish / Open Access Agreements

The Cleveland Clinic Floyd D. Loop Alumni Library has agreements with the publishers listed here to let CCF authors publish their articles at little or no cost.  The library's subscriptions cover all or part of the Article Processing Charge (APC).  Read and Publish or Transformative Agreements allow libraries and publishers to move towards open access publishing.

IMPORTANT!
To Qualify for Open Access Publishing Under Clinic Agreements:

  • Only journals and publishers listed on this page are covered by our APC agreements. If it’s not listed, we do not have an agreement.
    • It is important to read each journal/publisher's rules for open access on this web page.
    • It is the author’s responsibility to confirm whether a journal is covered.
  • The corresponding author must be a current Cleveland Clinic employee or student in the United States.
    • The corresponding author should not plan to leave the Clinic within 12 months of article submission, as eligibility depends on current affiliation.
  • You must use your Cleveland Clinic email address (ccf.org) when submitting.
    • Using a personal or non-Clinic email will disqualify your article from Open Access coverage, and you may be responsible for the fees.
  • Research must be done at or in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic.
    • Research done at another institution does not qualify.
  • These agreements do not cover fees for color illustrations, extra pages, or other charges not related to APCs.

Failure to meet these requirements will lead to automatic denial of Clinic APCs and you the corresponding author will be responsible for paying the APC.

What is Open Access

What is an Open Access (OA) article?

An open access (OA) is an article that is published in a journal and that article free to read by anyone in the world.

There are two types of journal articles:

1. Traditional articles - Articles that are published in journals and can only be read by people with a subscription to the journal. 

2. Open access (OA) articles - Articles that are published in journals and can be read by anyone regardless if they have a subscription

Journals often indicate articles are open access (OA) with an image of an open lock.  

Please note: Unless you have a federal grant that requires you to publish your research as an open access (OA) article, you do NOT need to publish your article as an open access (OA article). You can publish it as a traditional article, which will be read by people with a subscription to the journal.

BOTH open access articles and traditional articles are published in journals in PubMed. The quality of the journal is not related to whether it is an open access journal or not. 

Journals for Which Open Access Fees are Currently Covered by Cleveland Clinic Library for Cleveland Clinic Authors Listed Below

BMJ Case Reports

BMJ Case Reports 

We do NOT have an open access agreement with BMJ Case Reports. However, they require all authors to use the library's subscriber ID to submit a manuscript. The author must pay if they want it to be open access, the library's only agreement is to allow authors from subscribing institutions to submit an article. Contact the library to request subscriber ID.

  • Main campus and Florida caregivers only
  • If publishing open access author MUST pay the APC, the library does not have an open access deal with BMJ.
    • Our agreement just allows main campus and Florida caregivers to publish a regular non-open access article.

Cambridge Journals

Cambridge Journals

  • No Charge publishing to all 400+ journals and open access (OA) journal articles at Cambridge University Press journals.
  • Eligibility: Corresponding author of the article must be a student, faculty or staff member of a Cleveland Clinic Health System facility in the United States.
  • Corresponding authors identify their institutional affiliation at the time of submission and must use ccf.org email.
  • More information on corresponding authors and their roles and responsibilities when publishing an article with Cambridge here.

Cambridge University Press also can help with questions about how publishing open access with them works: oaqueries@cambridge.org

Company of Biologists

Company of Biologists

Eligibility: No charge to publish for any US-based CCHS corresponding authors in the following journals:

  • Development
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Biology Open

Elsevier Journals no longer available for OA publishing

We have hit our open access APC publishing limit with Elsevier for 2025.

We are unable to provide any more APCs for Elsevier journal titles for the remainder of the year. We will be able to provide APCs on January 1, 2026 for articles submitted on or after January 1, 2026.

Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics Journals 

  • No charge to publish for any Main Campus Cleveland Clinic affiliate
  • Participating journals include but not limited to:
    • Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
    • Journal of Breath Research
    • Journal of Neural Engineering
    • Journal of Radiological Protection
    • Physics in Medicine & Biology
    • Plasma Research Express

Karger Journals

Karger Journals

No Charge, unlimited publishing to 100+ Karger journals.

  • Eligibility: Corresponding author of the article must be a student, faculty or staff member of a Cleveland Clinic Health System facility in the United States.
  • Corresponding authors identify their institutional affiliation at the time of submission and must use ccf.org email.

Microbiology Society Journals

Microbiology Society Journals

  • No charge to publish for any author within the U.S. Cleveland Clinic Health System 
  • Participating journals include:
    • Journal of General Virology
    • Journal of Medical Microbiology
    • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
    • Microbiology
    • Access Microbiology
    • Microbial Genomics

Portland Press

Portland Press eJournals

  • No APC to publish in the journals listed below.  
  • Agreement renews annually.
  • Eligibility: Corresponding author of the article must be a student, faculty or staff member of a Cleveland Clinic in the United States.
  • Authors must validate their affiliation with Cleveland Clinic during the submission process

Journal titles in this agreement

  • Biochemical Journal
  • Biochemical Society Transactions
  • Bioscience Reports
  • Clinical Science
  • Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
  • Essays in Biochemistry
  • Neuronal Signaling

Rockefeller University Press

Rockefeller University Press Journals

  • No charge to publish in any of their journals for any US Cleveland Clinic Health System affiliate

  • Participating journals include:
    • Journal of Cell Biology
    • Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Journal of General Physiology
    • Life Science Alliance

Find more information for authors available at the RUP website.

Society for Endocrinology/Bioscientifica Journals

Society for Endocrinology/Bioscientifica Journals

  • Eligibility: Corresponding author of the article must be a student, faculty or staff member of a Cleveland Clinic Health System in the United States
  • Unlimited open access publishing to all Bioscientifical journals (listed here)

Springer Hybrid OA Journals

Springer OA Hybrid Journals

  • Eligibility: Corresponding author of the article must be a student, faculty or staff member of a Cleveland Clinic Health System in the United States
  • Only Springer hybrid open access journals are eligible.
  • The preliminary list of eligible hybrid journals for OA publishing from the contract is available here.
    (Scroll down to: Publishing open access in a hybrid journal, and click Eligible Journals to download the list)

IMPORTANT

  • There is an annual limit to the number of OA articles allowed.
    • Once the limit is reached, no charge publishing ends for the remainder of the year and authors will only be given two choices to publish their article.
    1. They can choose to publish as open access on their own and pay the Article Publication Charge (APC),
    2. They can choose to publish the article under the traditional subscription access model, which requires no APC because it is not an open access article.

Wiley Journals Out

We have hit our open access APC publishing limit with Wiley for 2025.

We are unable to provide any more APCs for Wiley journal titles for the remainder of the year. We will be able to provide APCs on January 1, 2026 for articles submitted on or after January 1, 2026.

If you still want to publish your article as an open access with Wiley, you can chose to publish and pay the APC on your own and are eligible for a 10% discount.