LibGuides: Grinnell College Libraries Open Access Publishing Agreements: Read-and-Publish Agreements

Grinnell College Libraries has read-and-publish agreements with several publishers that produce scholarly journals. These agreements waive article processing charges (APCs) often attached to open-access publishing for GC authors. Explore your options and learn more below.

Questions? Contact Gina Schlesselman-Tarango.

List of Publishers as of October 2025

Oxford University Press
See eligible journals and more details. Publish open access in 500+ journals in a variety of disciplines: Social Sciences, Humanities, Medicine, Life Sciences, Math and Physical Sciences, and Law.
Cambridge University Press
Search for Grinnell College to see the agreement and eligible journals. The 400+ included journals cover a wide variety of subject matter, from Anthropology and History to Religion and Psychology.
American Chemical Society
Complete list of American Chemical Society (ACS) journals.
Association for Computing Machinery
Complete list of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications.
The Company of Biologists
See the five journal package.
Microbiology Society
Complete list of Microbiology Society journals.

MDPI Journals

The publisher MDPI offers a 10% discount on APCs for Grinnell College authors.

For more on open access, see our Open Science and Open Resources guides.