LibGuides: UT Open Access Memberships: Current Initiatives UT Supports

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.

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.
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.org This link opens in a new window
arXiv is a pre-print repository for research papers in physics, computer science, computational biology, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, neuroscience, and other disciplines.

Created by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico and launched in 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Areas covered include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.

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.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales CLACSO
Open monographs publishing for Latin American books.
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.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Independent index of over 17,000 open access journals covering all disciplines.

Updated regularly. Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.

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.
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.
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.

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.
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
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.

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 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).
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.
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.
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.

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.