Publishers are choosing to flip some or all of their traditional journals to open access using subscription revenue. This means that as long as enough subscriptions are renewed in a given calendar year, the journal will make all the articles from that year open access. There are no additional costs to the "subscribing" institutions or their authors under this model.
UNLV University Libraries are proud to prioritize access to journals in our collections that commit to a "subscribe to open (S2O)" model of publishing.
Examples of journals and their publishers using a S2O model and that UNLV has a subscription to.
This page describes the different agreements the library has negotiated with publishers that provide support for UNLV researchers wishing to publish their articles open access. These agreements either cover APCs for some or all the publisher's journals or provide a discount.
To share suggestions for publishers that you would like to see open access agreements with please let us know by emailing digitalscholarship@unlv.edu.
| Publisher | Hybrid journals covered? |
Fully open access journals covered? |
Unlimited or cap on number of articles? |
Link to covered journals |
Current agreement end date | Notes | Articles published with agreement through 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Yes | Yes | Unlimited | About ACM Open | June 30, 2026 | 3 | |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | Journal Eligibility Checker | December 31, 2025 | 14 | |
| Company of Biologists (COB) | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | About the COB agreement | December 31, 2025 | UNLV agreement is for all 5 COB journals | 2 |
| Institute of Physics (IOP) | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | Journal Eligibility Checker | December 31, 2025 | Does not include some society journals. | 5 |
| MDPI (discount only) | N/A | Yes (see note) | Unlimited | Institutional OA Program information | May 2026 | 10% discount on APCs for all journals. | |
| Microbiology Society | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | Journal Eligibility Checker | December 31, 2025 | ||
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | Yes | No (see note) | Unlimited | Publishing agreement (and eligible journals lists) | December 31, 2027 | 10% discount on eligible fully OA journals | N/A - new in 2025 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | Yes | Yes | Unlimited | Journal Eligibility Checker | December 31, 2025 | 13 | |
| Wiley | Yes | Yes | Has a cap |
Eligible journals |
December 31, 2027 | N/A - new in 2025 |
Starting in 2023, and through the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), the UNLV University Libraries has an agreement with ACM to support open access publishing by UNLV corresponding authors. ACM has committed to transition to a fully open access publication model by the end of 2025. The University Libraries membership (subscription) means that UNLV corresponding authors can publish their work open access without charge to the author(s). The current agreement is for three years from July 2023 - June 2026.
What to know about this agreement
UNLV authors can publish open access in Cambridge University Press hybrid and fully open access journals.
What to know about this agreement
Learn more about UNLV's Read & Publish agreement with CUP.
Research published by corresponding authors based at UNLV can be made open access at no additional cost due to an agreement negotiated between UNLV University Libraries and The Company of Biologists. This agreement means UNLV authors have the opportunity to publish open access in The Company of Biologists subscription-based hybrid journals, at no additional cost to themselves or UNLV.
The agreement covers the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for affiliated corresponding authors whose research articles are accepted for publication in The Company of Biologists hybrid journals (not fully OA journals) during the agreement term.
Learn more about The Company of Biologists Read & Publish model (opens a PDF on The Company of Biologists website).
Starting in 2023, and through the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), the UNLV University Libraries has an agreement with the Institute of Physics to support open access publishing in IOP journals by UNLV corresponding authors.
Complete details for authors are available on the SCELC website.
UNLV University Libraries has partnered with MDPI to provide a 10% discount on articles published with MDPI. Through the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), which is free to UNLV, authors automatically receive the discount.
UNLV's agreement with the Microbiology Society provides UNLV researchers uncapped OA publishing.
What to know about this agreement:
Learn more about this agreement through the Microbiology Society.
As of early 2025, the University Libraries subscription to OUP journals covers an unlimited number of article processing charges in hybrid journals.
Learn more about our agreement with OUP.
Starting in 2023, the UNLV University Libraries subscription to the Royal Society of Chemistry journal package covers article processing charges across all RSC e-journals.
Learn more about RSC's open access "Read and Publish" services and download the guide for Read and Publish authors.
As of early 2025, the University Libraries subscription to Wiley journals covers a limited number of article processing charges across hybrid and fully open access journals.
Learn more about Wiley's open access services.