Open Access Publishing at Butler University

Butler University Libraries has signed on to several agreements with different publishers which pay for free or discounted Open Access publishing within certain journals from those publishers (these are known as transformative agreements).

See the list below to find details on the specific terms and covered journals for each publisher.

This list is updated as additional agreements are secured. Please direct any questions and suggestions to digitalscholarship@butler.edu.

• American Institute of Physics (Subscribe to Open) - Free 
  • Journal of Applied Physics
• American Physiological Society (Subscribe to Open) - Discounted  
  • AJP-Cell Physiology
  • AJP-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • AJP-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • AJP-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
  • AJP-Renal Physiology
• American Society for Microbiology (Subscribe to Open) - Discounted
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology 
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Journal of Virology
• Annual Reviews (Subscribe to Open) - Discounted – If Annual Reviews’ subscribe-to-open target is reached for 2025 (it has been reached each of the last 2 years), then Butler authors can publish open access and APC-free in the 15 titles the library subscribes to:
  • Annual Review of Anthropology
  • Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
  • Annual Review of Genetics
  • Annual Review of Medicine
  • Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
  • Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
  • Annual Review of Phytopathology
  • Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Annual Review of Sociology
• Cambridge University Press (Read & Publish agreement) - Free
  • See CUP’s Eligibility Checker tool for a up-to-date list of covered journals
• Company of Biologists (Read & Publish agreement) - Free
  •  Development
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Biology Open
• SpringerNature (Read & Publish agreement) - Free
  • See the “Eligible journals” list, downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet, at the bottom of this page: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/oa-agreements/usa/lyrasis
• Oxford University Press (Read & Publish agreement) - Free
  • See the eligible journals list in the “How do I know if I am eligible?” section on this page: https://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/read-and-publish-agreements/lyrasis