ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real world challenges. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society.
ASME offers the option for authors to publish their papers Open Access across all our hybrid journals for a fee. Under the CAUL agreement, with a subscription to either Package 2 or Package 9, APC fees are discounted or completely waived when publishing OA articles
This page was last updated on 4 February 2025.
The following institutions participate in this agreement:
Package 9 (full APC waiver)
Package 2 (APC discount only)
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in all of ASME's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published OA under this agreement.
Articles submitted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
There are no exclusions.
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
Authors, co-authors, etc. that are affiliated with the University and have submitted their paper through the University domain provided to ASME.
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
There is no discount scheme available.
The agreement allows for publishing in all journals. The complete title list is available online. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Author retains all rights as per the CC licence.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Article approvals are managed by the publisher via a custom publisher platform.
ASME does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
Once the paper is accepted in the Journal Tool, Authors will see the screenshot below. Their University will be listed on this page and they would select "Yes, my Institution has an R&P agreement."
Example screenshot(s):
Please email journals@asme.org for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
Please contact library staff at your institution for questions related to this agreement. They can provide advice on using the CAUL Open Access Agreements.
