The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce a new read and publish agreement with John Benjamins Publishing Company, an independent academic publisher of books, journals and online resources in linguistics and the language sciences. The agreement includes:

1. Unlimited open access publishing by UI-affiliated corresponding authors in all John Benjamins active journals and yearbooks, without payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).
2. Read access for the university community to selected John Benjamins journals:
   • Chinese as a Second Language: The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA
   • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
   • Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts

To publish open access in John Benjamins journals without paying APCs, corresponding authors simply submit their manuscript using their UI affiliation and email address—they will be automatically identified as eligible for the agreement.

Through this agreement, UI authors retain copyright of their articles, which are published with Creative Commons CC-BY licenses.  

Open access publishing helps UI research reach a wider audience because it is free to read and not limited to subscribers. The John Benjamins read and publish agreement is one of a growing number of open access agreements in which the UI Libraries participates as part of its commitment to support open access.

If you have any questions, please contact Katie DeVries, social sciences librarian, or Sara Scheib, director of the Scholarly Impact department.