OA publishing agreement with the Midwestern Collaborative for Library Services

The Midwestern Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) has made an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support Open Access publishing.

If you are affiliated with a participating institution, you can publish your article Open Access - at no cost to you - in gold and hybrid journals. In addition, you can enjoy access to Cambridge University Press journals content.

Participating institutions:

• Calvin University and Theological Seminary
• Central Michigan University
• DePauw University
• Grand Valley State University
• Hillsdale College 
• Hope College
• Michigan State University
• Northern Michigan University 
• Oakland University
• Saint Joseph Mercy Health System
• University of Houston-Downtown 
• University of Southern Indiana
• Wayne State University 
• Western Michigan University

Easily check your eligibility to publish OA under this agreement, and the journals available to you, by using our eligibility checker tool.

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have a corresponding author affiliated with a participating institution as listed above.
• Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
• Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal covered by the agreement.
• Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2025.

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Need help?

If you have any questions, please contact openresearch@cambridge.org or visit our Publishing Open Access information page.

You can also contact your library:

• Grand Valley State University - libcoll@gvsu.edu
• Oakland University - juliar@oakland.edu