W&L Libraries participates in several open access initiatives through our consortial network, VIVA. Browse the below links to learn more: 

• ACS [American Chemical Society] Read and Publish Agreement
• ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Open Access Agreement 
• Cambridge University Press Transformative Agreement.   
  • Interested authors can review Cambridge's Convert Your Article to Open Access webpage and Author Workflow Slides 
• IOP [Institute of Physics] Transformative Agreement 
  • More information about IOP transformative agreements is available here: , with information specific to the United States here. The author workflow is available here. 
• IWA [International Water Association] Publishing Transformative Agreement 
• PLOS [Public Library of Science] Institutional Partnership
• Springer Nature Transformative Agreement

We also are supporting members of Lever Press, a scholarly press that publishes peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs. Learn more about publishing with Lever Press. Lever was created by a consortium of small liberal arts colleges, including Washington & Lee, and partners with the University of Michigan Press for administration and operations.