LibGuides: Open Access at UT Austin: OA Support for UT Authors

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.

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.

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Peer-reviewed, open access monographs published by the University of California Press. UT Austin authors receive a 15% discount on the book processing charge.
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
MDPI publishes open access journals in a wide range of disciplines. UT authors receive a 10% discount on the APC.
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.

Instructions for UT Austin Cambridge UP Authors

UT Libraries (UTL) has an agreement with Cambridge University Press that includes unlimited open access (OA) publishing for UT Austin corresponding authors. To be eligible, the articles must be original research (research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports).

Here is 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 (CC) license. You are free to choose whatever CC license you want. Contact Colleen Lyon if you'd like more information about what the different CC licenses mean. 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.

Instructions for UT Austin PLOS Authors

Note 4-5-2023: PLOS has made some changes to their interface that may temporarily make it seem as though UT Austin corresponding authors need to pay an APC for publishing with a PLOS journal - you do not. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Colleen Lyon - contact info in the upper right.

UT Libraries (UTL) has an agreement with PLOS that includes unlimited open access (OA) publishing for UT Austin corresponding authors in all PLOS journals. In order to qualify for the fee free publishing with PLOS, your article must be accepted for publication on or after 3/1/2023, and you'll need to identify the University of Texas at Austin as your institution during the submission process.

Here is some brief information about what the steps to OA publication look like:

You'll be able to select institutional funding for APCs in the Additional Information step of the article submission process.
In that step, there is a Publication Fees section.
Click the radio button for "My institution will fully or partially pay the fee as a member of the PLOS Institutional Account Program".
After clicking that radio button, a drop down menu will appear and you'll need to select the University of Texas at Austin from that list.

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