Open Access Publishing Gets a Boost with OhioLINK Transformative Agreements
February 20, 2023
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All Oberlin College authors have open access publishing options with Cambridge, Wiley, and IOPP, thanks to recent OhioLINK agreements with those publishers. This means that Author Publishing Charges (APCs) are waived for researchers from OhioLINK member institutions who submit their work for publication.
These “transformative agreements” include the right to publish as well as full-text access, rather than paying costly subscriptions that simply allow people to read. The agreement with Cambridge University Press, for example, allows Oberlin researchers to publish open access versions of their articles in more than 300 Cambridge journals at no additional cost. The agreement with Wiley, a major science publisher, is similar, with the ability to publish as open access in more than 1,400 hybrid journals.
The most recent agreement is with IOPP (Institute of Physics) allows Oberlin researchers to publish unlimited open access articles at no cost to the author. In addition, library users receive expanded reading access to 72 IOPP journals across the fields of physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, and mathematics.
Learn more about transformative agreements and open access in this post from The Scholarly Kitchen, official blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP).