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Open Access and Open Educational Resources

Information resources, tools, and links to learn about, access, and utilize Open Resources

Oxy Read and Publish Agreements

Did you know Oxy library has multiple Read and Publish agreements with journals and publishers?

Read and Publish agreements, also know as Transformative agreements, are agreements negotiated between our library and publishers where the subscription costs for the access to read the journal articles also covers the cost of Oxy authors to publish open access articles in these journals.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Open

  • Oxy students, faculty, and staff have unlimited access to all of ACM Digital’s content and you can publish an uncapped number of research articles in any of their hybrid or open access journals for free!  You just need to make sure that you are listed as the corresponding author and that you use your Oxy email address when you submit your work.

ACS (American Chemical Society)

  • Under the agreement, any corresponding author from a subscribing SCELC institution who chooses to publish open access in an ACS journal can do so by paying a discounted APC (article processing charge) of $3,000. Alternatively, those authors who do not have research funds available to pay the $3,000 APC can request full funding of the APC from the collective's ongoing subscription fees, ensuring that lack of available research funds does not present a barrier for authors who wish to publish open access with ACS.

Cambridge

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with Oxy can publish for free in fully Open Access Cambridge journals and subscription-based journals that offer hybrid Open Access.

The Company of Biologists

  • Oxy has unlimited access to their five journals and you can publish an uncapped number of Open Access research articles in any of those journals for free.

Springer

  • Corresponding authors affiliated with Oxy are eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio.  In addition, we have full access to all Springer subscription journal content.

Wiley

  • All corresponding authors affiliated with Oxy are eligible to publish in Wiley hybrid journals or Wiley fully OA journal.  In addition, corresponding authors can publish their article open access under the agreement.  $1000 of List Price APC is covered for Grant Funded Authors and full APC list is covered for unfunded authors.  For more details, review the read and publish agreement.

Open Access Journals

Open Access Repositories

The following are a few OA repositories.

Remember to check the OA policies of the publishers and comply with the copyright and licensing restrictions before uploading your work.  Check Sherpa first!

OxyScholar

OxyScholar is Oxy's Institutional Repository

What is it?

OxyScholar is a platform for digital scholarly work created and curated by students, faculty, and staff of Occidental College, designed to collect, preserve, and provide open-access to Oxy scholarly projects and research.

How can you participate?

In order to contribute, Oxy library will need to create a depositor account for you.  Please contact us at library@oxy.edu to get started.  Take a look at the OxyScholar webpage to get an overview on types of materials and file formats accepted.

Why use OxyScholar?

So that you can publish open access for free and retain the copyright of your research and/or article!  Publishers are still trying to make a profit, even while saying they are complying with open access.  Take a look at the response from COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) to a recent fee imposed by ACS (American Chemical Society) for repository deposits.