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Open Access

Learn about Open Access and how to make your scholarship freely available.

About the Agreement

The Lehigh University Libraries have entered into a cost-neutral Open Access (OA) agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) for 2024 and 2025 via the Lyrasis consortium. This is a “read and publish” agreement that maintains subscription access to all CUP journals. Lehigh University-affiliated corresponding authors can also publish their eligible, accepted articles OA in CUP journals at no cost to the researcher. This covers both Gold OA (all articles are OA) and hybrid (some articles are OA, some are subscription-access) journals.

Information on eligible article types can be viewed here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/open-research/article-type-definitions

Journal eligibility can be confirmed using CUP's Eligibility Checker tool: https://www.cambridge.org/core/waivers-discounts

Instructions for Authors

Important note: While not a requirement, it is best to use your Lehigh.edu email address throughout the process to ensure your article is identified as eligible under this agreement.

Steps for authors:

  1. Confirm the eligibility of the journal to which you are submitting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/waivers-discounts
  2. Confirm the eligibility of the article type you are (co-)authoring: https://www.cambridge.org/core/open-research/article-type-definitions
  3. Ensure you are listed as the corresponding author. More information about corresponding authors is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/corresponding-author
  4. Submit your manuscript.
  5. If/after your article is accepted, complete your author publishing agreement. If publishing in a hybrid journal, ensure you select to publish "Gold Open Access."
  6. Confirm the Creative Commons (CC) license under which your article will be published: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/open-access-resources/creative-commons-licenses 

After following these steps, your article should be published OA at no cost to you.

This information is also described in the .PDF step-by-step guide linked below.

If there are any issues, please contact Phil Hewitt (pjh315@lehigh.edu) and/or oaqueries@cambridge.org.