LibGuides: UT Open Access Memberships: OA Support for UT Authors

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
Peer-reviewed, open access monographs published by the University of California Press. UT Austin authors get a 15% discount on the title publication fee.

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 article processing charge (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
PeerJ publishes seven open access journals in the biological sciences, computer science, chemistry, and materials science. UT has a deposit account that UT Austin non-tenured researchers can use to pay article processing charges (APCs). UT Libraries will fund up to 4 APCs per year and authors are limited to using the fund once per academic year.
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

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.