LibGuides: Open Access at UT Austin: OA Financial 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 in CUP journals without paying an APC.
Cogitatio Press
UT Austin corresponding authors publishing in any Cogitatio journal will be eligible to publish their article without paying an APC.
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
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
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 open access articles in RSC hybrid or gold journals without paying an APC.
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.
Wiley Journals
UT Austin has an agreement with Wiley that covers the full cost of APCs in hybrid OA journals for UT corresponding authors (hybrid journals are those that have a choice of whether or not to publish OA).

Feedback about OA Initiatives

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If you've published with one of our OA initiatives, please take a moment to tell us about your experience.

Subscribe to Open

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An open access model that converts traditional subscription journals to open access one year at a time using existing library relationships and payments. Institutions subscribe in the traditional manner and when sufficient revenue is collected, the journal is published OA. If the revenue goals are not met, then that year's content stays subscription only.

If we already have a subscription in place for a specific journal or publisher and that journal or publisher switches to S2O publishing, we will participate. In instances where a publisher is switching their entire portfolio to S2O, we'll try to list them on our Current UT Supported OA Initiatives list. Please note that many publishers are rolling out S2O options and sometimes they are at the individual journal level. It's not feasible for us to list every single S2O journal that we support, so if you have a question about a specific journal, please ask Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications, c.lyon@austin.utexas.edu.

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