Transformative Agreements
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Transformative agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services.
UTC's Transformative Agreements which include discounted Author Publishing Charges for Open Access and Hybrid journals are listed below with discount details.
| Publisher | Waiver or Discount | Additional Information |
| Springer Nature | Full OA APC waiver for articles in hybrid Springer journals for which UTC faculty and staff are corresponding authors. | |
| Cambridge University Press | Full OA APC waiver for articles in gold and hybrid journals for which UTC faculty and staff are corresponding authors. | |
| ACM – Association of Computing Machinery | Full OA APC waiver for articles for which UTC faculty and staff are corresponding authors. | |
| Annual Reviews | Full OA APC waiver for the following titles:
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| APS – American Physiological Society | Full OA APC waiver for the following titles:
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| ASM – American Society for Microbiology | Full OA APC waiver for the following titles:
Additional discounts are available for page charge and supplemental materials fees:
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| Taylor and Francis | Taylor & Francis has an agreement with the University of Tennessee that allows researchers to publish in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals with a 10% discount on article publishing charges (APCs). |