LibGuides: Marine Science: Open Access (OA), Memberships & Publishing Initiatives

This guide is not intended to be comprehensive and only provides a brief summary of available resources for open access, memberships and publishing initiatives. To learn more about open access or about UT Austin specific resources please contact Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications.

See her guide here: Open Access at UT Austin.

International Open Access (OA) Week

October 23-29, 2023

Open Access Publishing Initiatives

The memberships and initiatives below provide direct benefits to UT authors. Please note - when we have agreements in place that cover the entire APC, choosing the OA option does NOT cost you anything and does not cause an incremental increase in the cost of UTL’s agreements with these publishers.

If you are being asked to choose a Creative Commons license and would like more information about what that means, see our Creative Commons LibGuide or contact Colleen Lyon.

A list of the options with direct author benefits is BELOW.

ACM Open
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publishes journals, conference proceedings, and magazines. UT is participating in their program to transform their publishing to all open access. UT Austin corresponding authors can publish OA without paying an APC.
Cambridge University Press
UT Austin has a contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) that allows UT corresponding authors to publish OA with CUP without paying an APC. See box below for more information.
Elsevier
UT has signed a deal with Elsevier that provides UT corresponding authors with a discount on article processing charges (APCs) of 10-15% in eligible gold and hybrid journal titles, excluding Cell Press, The Lancet, and certain society titles.
IOP
UT Austin has a Read and Publish deal with the Institute of Physics (IOP) that gives the UT community access to all IOP published journals and all UT corresponding authors can publish open access without paying an APC.

Luminos This link opens in a new window
2015 - present. Unlimited users.
Provides peer-reviewed open access monographs published by the University of California Press. Full text may be read online or downloaded in PDF, EPUB, or Mobi format.
The University of Texas at Austin has an institutional membership paid by the University of Texas Libraries. This membership provides a 15% discount on Title Publication Fees for University of Texas at Austin faculty members.
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) Journals This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
MDPI is an Open Access academic publisher which has been operating since 1996. MDPI publishes 160 diverse peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, electronic journals.
University of Texas at Austin-affiliated authors receive a 10% discount on article processing charges.

PeerJ
UT participates in the Annual Institutional Membership with PeerJ which allows all UT Austin corresponding authors to publish in PeerJ journals without needing to pay an APC.
PLOS Journals
UT Austin corresponding authors publishing in any PLOS journal, will be eligible to publish their article without paying an APC.
Qualitative Data Repository
Social sciences data repository that offers curation services. UT Austin's membership covers the costs for most curation services.
Royal Society of Chemistry
UT Austin has a Read and Publish agreement with RSC that allows UT Austin-affiliated corresponding authors to publish a limited number of open access articles in RSC hybrid or Gold journals each year without paying an APC. Once the campus annual limit has been reached, corresponding authors will receive a 15% discount on subsequent APC charges.
Sage Publishing
UT Austin has a contract with Sage Publishing that gives us access to Sage journals and all UT corresponding authors can publish open access without paying an APC in over 1000 Sage subscription and gold open access journals.

In order to be eligible, the articles must be accepted for publication on or after 1/1/2023.

OA Week 2023 Event - Support for OA Publishing at UT

In this session we’ll talk about UT Libraries support for open access (OA) publishing, including support that eliminates article processing charges (APCs) for UT authors. We’ll discuss the main types of OA publishing business models (including OA book publishing), and how the Libraries is strategically investing in these options. Finally, we’ll show participants how they can share their work regardless of the publication model. This free session is open to anyone, but will be of most interest to faculty, students, and staff who publish scholarly content. Registration is required.

Date/time: Tuesday, Oct. 24th from 12:00pm-1:00pm (Zoom registration link)

Open Access Initiative Support

See complete alphabetical list of memberships, initiatives, & infrastructures currently financially supported at UT Austin.