Georgia Southern faculty publishing with ACS Publications may be eligible to receive up to 100% coverage of article processing charges (APCs) and publish articles under a CC-BY open access license at no cost to them. Georgia Southern is participating in a "read and publish" agreement through the GALILEO consortium, which defrays APCs for the first 300 articles published per year by University System of Georgia (USG) faculty. This program is administrated by GALILEO and is available to USG faculty on a first-come-first-served basis. 

If you are a Georgia Southern faculty member and the submitting corresponding author, GALILEO will be notified when you submit a manuscript to any ACS journal. If funding is available and your article is accepted for publication, GALILEO will defray the cost of the APC charges. See ACS's GALILEO Consortium page to learn more about this agreement and get step-by-step instructions for submitting articles under this "read and publish" agreement.

• Covers hybrid journals, ACS Omega, and ACS Au family journals
• ACS Central Science is diamond open access (free to publish and read)
• Eligible authors: Corresponding authors affiliated with Georgia Southern
• Eligible publication types: Research articles and review articles

USG/GALILEO has made an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support Open Access publishing. Since Georgia Southern is an affiliate institution, faculty, staff and students can publish articles Open Access, at no cost to authors, in gold and hybrid journals. 

Under this agreement, Georgia Southern has access to all 400+ journals published by Cambridge University Press and corresponding authors have unlimited Open Access publishing benefits at no additional charge to either the author or the institution.

• Agreement period: Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2025
• Covers hybrid and fully Open Access journals
• Eligible authors: Corresponding authors affiliated with Georgia Southern upon article acceptance
• Eligible publication types: Research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports

Under this agreement, Georgia Southern has unlimited access to current and archive journal content, and the Open Access costs of research articles published by Georgia Southern corresponding authors in all Company of Biologists journals are covered.

• Agreement period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027
• Covers all five Company of Biologists journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. 
• Uncapped publishing benefits (no article limits)
• Eligible authors: Corresponding authors affiliated with Georgia Southern upon article acceptance
• Eligible publication types: Research Article, Research Report, Techniques and Resources Article, Techniques and Resources Report, Short Report, Tools and Resources, Methods & Techniques, Short Communication, and Resource Article

Under this agreement, Georgia Southern submitting corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles in eligible Elsevier hybrid journals at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. When publishing open access in hybrid journals, Georgia Southern corresponding authors do not have to pay an article publishing charge (APC). 

Please Note: The number of APCs included under the agreement is fixed and will be allocated based on date of acceptance.

• Agreement period: May 28, 2025 - December 31, 2029
• Covers only eligible hybrid journals (subscription-based journals that offer an Open Access option)
• Fully Open Access journals are not included
• Annual maximum number of articles (cap increases each year)
• Excludes Cell Press and Lancet titles
• Eligible authors: Submitting corresponding authors affiliated with Georgia Southern upon article acceptance
• Eligible publication types: Original research and review articles (includes full-length articles, micro-articles, review articles, case reports, data in brief, original software publications, practice guidelines, protocols, replication studies, short communications, short surveys, and video articles)