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LMU Faculty Open Access Publication Highlights

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Since 2022, Loyola Marymount University authors have published 33 open access articles through transformative agreements, collectively saving $114,020 in article processing charges (APCs), thanks to the transformative agreements (TA) program provided by our library consortium, the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC).

Here are some of the works that have been published open access in 2025 through SCELC TAs (LMU authors in bold):

  • Azad, Md. N., Zafar, S., Faiyad, A., Sim, H. S., & Hong, Sungwook Leo (2025). Atomistic Study of Selenium Doping Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Zinc-blende and Wurtzite CdTe Nanowires. Computational Materials Science, 246, 113410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2024.113410
  • Chan, Nathan. K., & Magni, Gabriele. (2025). The Group-Basis of Political Behaviour among Minoritized Communities: The Case of LGBTQ+ Linked Fate and Sexual and Gender Minorities. British Journal of Political Science, 55. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123424000966
  • Murphy, Nora A., Ruben, M. A., Stosic, M., Renier, L. A., Schlegel, K., Hall, J. A., Schmid Mast, M., & Marroquín, Brett. (2025). How Long? How Many? How Much? Evidence of Convergent Validity Among Thin-Slice Behavioral Coding Metrics. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-025-00489-w
  • Willette, Demian. A., Andrade, Kelli, Fitzpatrick, Ben, & Wilson, Kesterlyn. (2025). Outreach & DNA-based monitoring facilitate 3-fold reduction in seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles over 10 years. Food Control, 168, 110913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2024.110913
  • Zhang, Yangyang, Mooney, A., & Ozgen, S. (2025). Racial Minorities in Strategic Leadership: An Integrative Literature Review and Future Research Roadmap. The Leadership Quarterly, 36(1), 101840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101840

See all articles that have been identified by SCELC as funded through TAs.

Tips for Authors: How to Benefit from the Transformative Agreements

LMU authors have access to discounted or free open access with:

  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • ACS Publications
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Elsevier
  • Emerald Publishing
  • IOP Publishing
  • Oxford University Press
  • Springer Nature
  • Wiley

About to submit? Contact Jessea Young, scholarly communications librarian, to determine if the journal you are submitting to is part of the TA so you can ensure your submission meets the publisher’s requirements for free or discounted APCs. You can also email an abstract, and we can provide a list of journals covered by the TAs you may want to publish in.

About to publish with Wiley? Let us know so we can help you through the TA application process.

Additional tips:

  • LMU faculty must be the corresponding author. Additionally, ask any non-LMU co-authors if their institution has transformative agreements.
  • Indicate your affiliation with LMU when you submit your manuscript.
  • Use your lmu.edu institutional email address on your submission profile and include your ORCID researcher ID, if you have one.

You can find additional information about our transformative agreements on the Scholarly Communications: Transformative Agreements LibGuide.