Open Access Publishing Support

Below is a list of transformative agreements that George Mason University Libraries have established with certain publishers. According to the University of Nottingham, transformative agreements are "contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model." The Libraries have forthcoming arrangements with the American Chemical Society, the Public Library of Science (PLOS), and Springer. Authors seeking to publish with a specific publisher listed below should read the 'Information for Authors', which has important details and exclusions.