The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has negotiated agreements with publishers for free open access publishing to support researchers in sharing their scholarly output, making it accessible by anyone, anywhere, regardless of individual or institutional abilities to pay access costs. IU Southeast authors are able to publish research articles as open access in most or all of these publishers' journals.
As of Summer 2025, IU Southeast authors are able to publish their articles as open access for free with the following publishers:
See additional information and caveats below.
As of January 2025, IU Southeast authors are eligible to publish with no membership fees (also known as Article Processing Charges or APCs) with Cambridge University Press.
To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted between January 2024 and December 2026 and have a responsible corresponding author from IU Southeast (other IU campuses are also eligible).
Faculty at IU Southeast can publish research articles as open access without having to pay an APC or article processing charge in all gold (all articles are open access) and hybrid journals (faculty select whether article is published as open access). Authors should select gold OA publishing and choose a Creative Commons license when signing their Author Agreement. The Creative Commons License Chooser can help you determine which license is right for you.
If you do not select open access when signing your Author Agreement, you can still make your article open access at a later point in the process. When you receive a follow-up email after submitting your Author Agreement, that email should contain information giving you the option to publish Open Access by executing an addendum form. You can make your article open access even if it has already been published, as long as it was accepted for publication during the term of the agreement (January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026).
You must identify yourself as affiliated with Indiana University Southeast and use your institutional email address as part of the publishing workflow. You must be the corresponding author for the article to be eligible.
You can still publish your article, even if you do not wish to use this open access option. If you choose not to publish open access you may still deposit the peer reviewed manuscript in IUScholarWorks subject to an embargo period determined by the Cambridge University Press green open access policy for journals.
This agreement between the BTAA and Cambridge University Press also includes full access to the entire portfolio of Cambridge University Press journals content.
Contact selibres@iu.edu if you have further questions or need assistance with the process.
You can also find more information at OA Agreement - Big Ten Academic Alliance | Cambridge University Press.
SpringerNature Read & Publish Agreement
As of April 2025, IU Southeast authors are eligible to publish with no membership fees (also known as Article Processing Charges or APCs) in hybrid journals under the Springer, Adis, and Palgrave Macmillan imprints, academic journals on nature.com and several smaller imprints (but NOT Nature or any Nature-branded titles).
To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2027, and have a responsible corresponding author from IU Southeast (other IU campuses are also eligible).
Under this agreement, authors can choose from several Creative Commons licenses, which affect how others — including the publisher — can use their work.
If you choose the default CC-BY license, you keep the right to reuse your own work and give broad reuse rights to others, including for commercial purposes, as long as they give proper credit. This means your article can be read, shared, adapted, or included in textbooks, publications, and used for commercial purposes without needing to ask for your permission, as long as you’re credited.
If you choose a more restrictive license — SpringerNature allows CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND or CC-BY-ND licenses — others have more limited reuse rights, especially for commercial purposes. However, even with these licenses, Springer Nature still requires you to give them exclusive rights to publish and reuse your article including for commercial purposes. This may limit your own ability to reuse or adapt your work later without obtaining permission from SpringerNature.
Faculty at IU Southeast can publish Original Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, and Continuing Education articles as open access (using a Creative Commons license) without having to pay an APC or article processing charge in hybrid journals. The imprints available for this are Springer, Adis, and Palgrave Macmillan, as well as academic journals on nature.com and several smaller imprints. Note that articles in Nature or any of the Nature-branded titles are not covered by this agreement. Hybrid journals that flip to fully open access during the agreement term will continue to be included as no-cost publishing options. New hybrid journals added during the term are also included. A complete list of eligible journals is available on Springer’s BTAA agreement web page.
You must identify yourself as affiliated with Indiana University Southeast and use your institutional email address as part of the publishing workflow. You must be the corresponding author for the article to be eligible.
You can still publish your article, even if you do not wish to use this open access option. You can opt-out of the agreement if you wish. If you do not choose to publish open access you may deposit the peer reviewed manuscript in IUScholarWorks subject to an embargo period determined by the SpringerNature open access policy for journals.
The agreement includes full access to read the entire Springer hybrid journals portfolio.
Contact selibres@iu.edu if you have further questions or need assistance with the process.
You can find more information at Springer’s BTAA agreement web page.