Milner Library has entered into agreements with several scholarly publishers to better support Open Access to their content. The details--and therefore the impact on open scholarship--are different for each agreement.
Although we would love to provide funding to publish everything open access, some of our agreements limit the number of articles that can be published open access and we may accordingly deny some requests for open access funding. Contact isured@ilstu.edu with any questions.
An overview of the agreements are available in the table below; find more details on this page.
| Publisher | Eligible Authors | Publications | Limits |
| ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) | ISU Corresponding Author | All journals | |
| ACS (American Chemical Society) | ISU Submitting Corresponding Author | Select journals | Eight (8) waivers in 2025 |
| Annual Reviews | ISU Authors | All journals are Subscribe to Open (S2O) | |
| Cambridge University Press | ISU Corresponding Author |
Open access and hybrid journals |
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| Company of Biologists | ISU Corresponding Author | All Journals | |
| IOP (Institute of Physics) | ISU Corresponding Author | All Journals | |
| Microbiology Society | ISU Corresponding Author | All Journals | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | ISU Corresponding Author | Hybrid Journals | |
| Sage Publications | ISU Corresponding Author | Hybrid Journals | |
| Springer Nature | ISU Corresponding Author | Hybrid Journals | 25 waivers in 2025 |
| Taylor & Francis | ISU Corresponding Author | Open Select and fully open access journals | Limited funding |
Authors who publish under these agreements will have their work added to the ISU ReD Open Access Publishing Support collection.
In addition to the agreements above, Milner Library supports the following Open Access platforms: