The ULS has partnered with a number of scholarly publishers to enable eligible University of Pittsburgh authors to achieve immediate open access without further payment or at a discounted APC rates.
If there are publication charges (also called APCs or author fees) for publishing open access in journals from these publishers, the library already has an agreement with that publisher to pay the fees for Pitt authors.
Publishing open access, allows authors to retain their author rights, and make their publications freely accessible immediately after publication (avoiding embargos).
The Open Library of Humanities is a collection of open access journals in a variety of disciplines. The ULS’s contribution to the Open Library of Humanities helps make these journals free for everyone to read and publish.
Established in 2014, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is a partnership of over 3,000 libraries, funding agencies, and research organizations from 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations, hosted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Working with publishers of leading journals in the discipline, SCOAP3 has collectively supported open access publishing of research articles, enabling free global readership and re-use for high energy physics research, as well as barrier-free and equal publishing without Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors from 120 countries across the world.
SciPost is a complete publishing infrastructure serving professional scientists worldwide.
The Free Journal Network (FJN)’s mission is to support the ecosystem of “diamond” open access journals – noncommercial journals which are maintained by the scholarly community, and which are completely free to read and to publish. The FJN promotes the FAIR principles of open scholarship and supports the community of journals with best practices, infrastructure and service support, and technical help resources.
