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.

Open Access Memberships

UT Austin supports a variety of open access memberships, initiatives, and infrastructure with the goal of creating a more sustainable publishing ecosystem. That support sometimes provides direct benefits to our authors like:

Discounts on article processing charges (APCs)
Fully paid APCs
Free OA publishing through a different mechanism

Below is the complete list of the memberships, initiatives, and infrastructure that we currently support. To see a list of the options with direct author benefits, see the OA Support for UT Authors tab.

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 for no additional fee.
Algebraic Combinatorics
A peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing high quality papers in which algebra and combinatorics interact in interesting ways. UT is a financial sponsor of the journal.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ) is among the premier peer-reviewed journals in Native American studies. It is published by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and will be published diamond open access through a new partnership with eScholarship Publishing.
Annual Reviews
Non-profit publisher with 85 journals in a variety of disciplines. Journals are being published with a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model.
Ars Inveniendi Analytica
A peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing articles on mathematical analysis, and holding to the highest scientific standards. UT is a financial sponsor of the journal.
arXiv
arXiv is a pre-print repository for research papers in physics, computer science, computational biology, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, neuroscience, and other disciplines.
Berghahn Open Anthro
Berghahn Open Anthro is collection of anthropology journals being published under a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. See glossary for more info about S2O.

BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
BioOne Complete aggregates high quality subscribed and open access titles focused on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
BioOne Complete aggregates 180 high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. More than three-quarters of the subscribed titles are ranked in Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports, and 43% are available online exclusively in BioOne Complete. For User Guides and Tutorials see http://www.bioone.org/page/resources/researchers/tutorials.

Cambridge University Press
UT Austin has a contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) that gives the UT community access to all CUP journals and all UT authors can publish open access with CUP for no fee. See the OA Support for UT Authors tab for more information.
CEU Press - Opening the Future
Opening the Future is a collective subscription model that is meant to achieve the dual objectives of increasing collections and supporting Open Access. UT Libraries pays a small annual membership fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a selection of the well-regarded CEU Press backlist, with perpetual access after three years; the membership revenue is used to produce new OA monographs.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales CLACSO
Open monographs publishing for Latin American books.
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology is a peer reviewed, open access journal publishing ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics.
DataCite
Service that provides digital object identifiers (DOIs) for items in Texas ScholarWorks, Texas Data Repository, and on request.
Demography
Demography is a peer-reviewed, open access journal presenting the highest-quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines that includes anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. UT is a financial sponsor of this journal.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Independent index of over 17,000 open access journals covering all disciplines.
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Updated regularly. Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
EDP Sciences - Mathematics
EDP Sciences is publishing six math journals under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) format. See the glossary for more information on S2O.
Elsevier
Elsevier publishes books and journals across the disciplines. UT has signed a deal with Elsevier that provides us with reading access to Elsevier journals and 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.
engrXiv
A pre-print repository for engineering research.
Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. The journal publishes outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences, around significant environmental issues. UT is a financial sponsor of this journal.
Global Press Archive
Full text access to a variety of global news publications. The five OA collections published so far are: Imperial Russian Newspapers, Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, and South Asian Newspapers.

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, libraries, and other commercial digitization projects.
HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, libraries at HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization projects. Search more than 11 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).
University of Texas students, faculty, and staff can download materials in the public domain in addition to conducting full text searches of all materials in the HathiTrust Catalog. UT Official Retirees and UT Extension Students are excluded from this access because of HathiTrust's strict definitions and added layer of authentication
Click the "Log In" button and choose "University of Texas at Austin" from the drop-down menu. Select "continue" and then enter your EID and password when prompted.
The HathiTrust is a partnership of more than 80 major academic and research libraries.

History of Media Studies
History of Media Studies is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication. UT is a financial sponsor of this journal.
IWA Publishing
IWA publishes on water, wastewater, and related environmental fields. UT Libraries is contributing to OA publishing of their journals and frontlist books.
Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication
JLSC is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing articles at the intersection of librarianship and scholarly publishing. UT is a financial sponsor of this journal.
Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes content from multiple publishers freely available to all users through pledges from libraries. UT Libraries has pledged to several different KU collections.
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
liquid blackness is a peer reviewed, open access journal that seeks to carve out a place for aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black studies to come together in productive ways. The journal showcases a variety of scholarly modes, including audio-visual work and experimental and traditional essays.
Luminos
Peer-reviewed, open access monographs published by the University of California Press. UT Austin authors receive a 15% discount on the book processing charge.
MDPI
MDPI publishes open access journals in a wide range of disciplines. UT authors receive a 10% discount on the article processing charge (APC).
MIT Direct to Open
Direct to Open harnesses collective action to support open access to excellent scholarship. The model will provide open access to all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections (~90 titles per year) from 2022 via recurring participation fees. UT Libraries are supporting both the HSS and STEM monograph collections.
OACIP - Open Access Community Investment Program
Lyrasis provides a community oriented framework to supporting diamond OA journals. UT Libraries has used this framework to support several journals: Algebraic Combinatorics, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Humanities, History of Media Studies, Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication, Liquid Blackness: Journal of Aesthetics and Black Studies.

Open Book Publishers This link opens in a new window
Open Book Publishers is the largest open access publisher of academic monographs in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the English-speaking world. They publish peer-reviewed works in the humanities and social sciences.
Open Book Publishers is the largest open access publisher of academic monographs in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the English-speaking world, publishing peer-reviewed works in the humanities and social sciences.

OpenEdition Books
OpenEdition Books is a web platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. UT is a supporting library.

Open Library of the Humanities This link opens in a new window
The Open Library of the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open access journal and book publishing platform for researchers in the humanities. It is funded by an international library consortium and so has no author-facing charges.
The Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed, internationally-supported, academic-led, not-for-profit, mega-journal, multi-journal and books platform for the humanities. It is funded by an international library consortium and so has no author-facing charges.
The OLH takes a broad, inclusive understanding of the academic humanities, from classics, religious studies and theology, modern languages and literatures through to political philosophy, musicology, critical legal studies, anthropology and newer subject areas such as critical theory and cultural studies, film, media and TV studies.

ORCID
Unique identifier that helps identify and disambiguate researchers while also streamlining the reporting process through connections throughout the research lifecycle.
PeerJ
NOTE - as of 2/14/2023, the funds in this account are exhausted. We are investigating other options with PeerJ.
PeerJ publishes seven open access journals in the biological sciences, computer science, chemistry, and materials science.

PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
PhilPapers is a wide-ranging index of literature in philosophy and includes journals, books, personal webpages, and open access archives.
PhilPapers is a wide-ranging index of literature in philosophy, compiled from trawling techniques and crowd-sourcing to monitor research content in philosophy, including journals, books, personal pages, and open access archives (in PhilArchives). The index currently includes over 2 million research books and articles. See details here.
Note “Terms & Conditions”, particularly section 4.
Compare to Philosopher’s Index.

PLOS Journals
UT Austin corresponding authors publishing in one of the 12 PLOS journals, will be eligible to publish their article without paying an APC.
Punctum Books
Punctum Books is an open-access publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage (in which assemblage you will find humanists keeping rowdy and thought-provoking company with social scientists, scientists, multi/media specialists, artists, architects, and designers).
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Punctum Books is an open-access publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage (in which assemblage you will find humanists keeping rowdy and thought-provoking company with social scientists, scientists, multi/media specialists, artists, architects, and designers).
Qualitative Data Repository
Social sciences data repository that offers curation services. UT Austin's membership covers the costs for most curation services.
Reveal Digital - Diversity & Dissent
Libraries commit to making multi-year contributions to a common pool to create large aggregated digital collections that support the thematic focus of Diversity & Dissent in 20th-Century America. Reveal Digital develops collections from content contributed by special collections libraries, historical archives, and other cultural institutions. Source libraries receive complete digital files of their content (images and metadata with searchable text) to do with what they wish.
Sage Publishing
UT Austin has a contract with Sage Publishing, start date 1/1/2023, that gives the UT community access to Sage journals and all UT corresponding authors can publish open access for no fee in over 1000 Sage subscription and gold open access journals.
SciPost
Open access publisher that is dedicated to a business model that doesn't introduce costs to readers or to authors. This is sometimes called diamond or platinum open access.
SCOAP3
SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership of over three thousand libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organisations. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors. SCOAP3 centrally pays publishers for costs involved in providing Open Access.
Sidestone
Open access book publisher specializing in archaeology and anthropology. All books are free to read on their website, and our membership allows UT Austin readers to download PDF copies of their books.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
SAOA is a free open-access resource for research and teaching - a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia.
Texas Digital Library
A collaborative consortium based in Texas and rooted in higher education, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) builds capacity among its membership for ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. UT Austin is a founding member of TDL.

Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) This link opens in a new window
TRAIL provides access to digitized copies of U.S. government agency technical reports.
TRAIL provides access to digitized copies of federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Includes reports from agencies such as the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Bureau of Standards, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. A complete list of the included series is available at http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/current-activities/series-list.

University of Michigan Press - Fund to Mission
Open monograph publishing model from the University of Michigan. Their goal is to convert at least 75% of U-M Press monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay.

Open Access Publishing Initiatives

The memberships and initiatives below provide direct benefits to UT authors.

Cambridge University Press
UT Austin has a contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) that gives the UT community access to all CUP journals and all UT authors can publish open access with CUP for no fee. See box below for more information.

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 PeerJ publishes the world's scientific knowledge through open access licensing. 3,540 peer-reviewed articles and 3,839 preprints since 2013.
PLOS Biology & PLOS Medicine
UT Austin is participating in the Community Action Publishing program from PLOS. Participating in this program means UT Austin corresponding authors won't have to pay APCs for either PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine.
Portland Press
Portland Press offers several Open Access (OA) options, including funder-compliant routes to publishing, in all of our journals. UT Austin authors get a discount on article processing charges (APC).
Qualitative Data Repository
Social sciences data repository that offers curation services. UT Austin's membership covers the costs for most curation services.

Instructions for UT Austin Cambridge UP Authors

Congratulations on your accepted publication with Cambridge University Press! UT Libraries (UTL) has an agreement with Cambridge University Press that includes unlimited open access (OA) publishing for our faculty and students. Please note that choosing the OA option does NOT cost you anything and does not cause an incremental increase in the cost of UTL’s agreement with Cambridge.

The process isn’t overly obvious, so we want to provide some brief information about what the steps to OA publication look like.

Complete Author Publishing Agreement
1. Upon acceptance of your article, you will be sent an email and asked to complete an Author Publishing Agreement. Within this form, you will be able to select your Creative Commons license. When you return the form, that will trigger an email from Rightslink-CCC (usually within 48 hours).
Complete the Rightslink process
1. If you do not already have an account with Rightslink, you’ll need to create one.
2. You should see an option to seek funding from your institution for OA publication. Choose that option and continue. That will trigger an email to UTL to approve the request. Again, choosing OA does not cost you or UTL any additional money.
Once the approval is complete, you will receive an email confirmation and your article will enter production.