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The Claremont Colleges, as a member of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), is part of a read-and-publish agreement with Cambridge University Press until December 31, 2024*. In addition to providing The Claremton Colleges access to read a much larger number of Cambridge journals, this agreement allows Claremont - affiliated authors to publish their articles Open Access in many Cambridge journals at no cost to themselves.

In other terms, this agreement covers the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Claremont authors whose research articles are accepted for publication in applicable Cambridge journals during the three year agreement.

Please read on for information to determine if your research publication is eligible and to learn how to take advantage of this opportunity.

*Extended one year from previous date of December 31, 2023.

Is my research eligible?

To be eligible, articles must:

• Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.  (Definitions)
• Have a corresponding author affiliated with The Claremont Colleges. (Definition, roles, and responsibilities of corresponding author)
• Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal as listed here.
• Be accepted for publication between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2024.

How to publish Open Access under this agreement

1. Check your eligibility

• To publish OA under this agreement, the corresponding author must be affiliated with The Claremont Colleges (verified by use of your one of our Seven campuses email addresses).

2. Submit your research

• Submit your research to an applicable journal using your institutional affiliation (ideally using ORCID).
  (Learn more about researcher IDs such as ORCID in the Researcher IDs and Profiles guide here.)

3. Complete your OA publishing agreement

• Once your work has been accepted, complete and submit the journal’s OA author publishing agreement and select the Creative Commons license that will determine how readers can use your article.

4. Coordinate the APC transaction

• Rightslink will then contact you to coordinate "payment" of your APC (Article Processing Charge, or the charge to publish Open Access). This is a necessary part of the process, even though there will be no cost to you as a Claremont - affiliated author. Once taken to the payment portal, you should select the option to "Apply Discounts" on the "Charges Estimate" page, then enter " your "Claremont" campus into the "Affiliation Discount" box.

5. Publication

• Congratulations! Once your article has published, anyone can find, read, and share your Open Access research.

Additional information

• Details of the read-and-publish agreement on Cambridge University Press' website
• Cambridge University Press "An Author Guide to Paying an Article Processing Charge (APC)"