This week (October 21-27), we celebrate International Open Access Week!
International Open Access Week is a global initiative sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) that aims to engage communities in discussion about the importance and benefits of open access.
The ability to share and access research and scholarly information is important to us here at the Weinberg Memorial Library, and we know that it is equally important to our faculty here at the University of Scranton. Did you know that in 2023, nearly 50% of works that were published by University of Scranton authors and indexed in OpenAlex were published under some form of open access?
We think that’s amazing and would love to hear more! If you’ve recently published open access and would like to share your experience and what open scholarship means to you, please message us at affordablelearning@scranton.edu. We’d love to highlight some of your stories as we continue to celebrate Open Access Week.
If you’ve always wondered about publishing open access but were worried about cost prohibitive article processing charges (APCs), fear not! The Library is excited to announce partnerships with some of our publishers to provide Read and Publish opportunities which will cover APCs in select journals for authors affiliated with the University of Scranton.
Our current agreements cover publishing opportunities with the Association for Computing Machinery, Cambridge University Press, the American Chemical Society, and Springer Nature. You can learn more about these opportunities by visiting our Open Access Publishing Research Guide or reaching out to the OER Committee at affordablelearning@scranton.edu.
We hope you’ll take advantage of these exciting offers, and we look forward to providing more opportunities in the future.
