OA publishing agreement with NERL

The NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL) 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:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Amherst College
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Brandeis University
• Brown University
• Catholic University of America (This waiver is available for a limited number of articles, final approval for OA funding may be determined by your library.)
• Central Connecticut State University
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• College of the Holy Cross
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Drew University
• Duke University
• Emory University
• George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Georgia State University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Loyola Notre Dame
• Mount Holyoke College
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• Northeastern University
• Princeton University
• Providence College
• Rochester Institute of Technology 
• Skidmore College
• Stanford University
• Syracuse University
• Temple University 
• Trinity College
• University of Delaware
• University of Georgia
• University of Kentucky
• University of Maryland
• University of Maine
• University of Massachusetts - Amherst
• University of Maine at Machias
• University of Massachusetts Medical School
• University of Miami 
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University College at Rockland
• University of Tennessee
• Vassar College
• Wesleyan University
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
• Yale 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.