"According to the traditional publication agreement, all rights —including copyright — go to the journal. You probably want to include sections of your article in later works. You might want to give copies to your class or distribute it among colleagues. And you likely want to place it on your Web page or in an online repository if you had the choice. These are all ways to give your research wide exposure and fulfill your goals as a scholar, but they are inhibited by the traditional agreement. If you sign on the publisher’s dotted line, is there any way to retain these critical rights?
Yes. The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles."
The Library and Information Services (LIS) is constantly looking to make it easier for you to publish Open Access. One option that is available to our authors is to make use of discount/waiver agreements we have with publishers. We are working on creating a list and hope to have it ready soon.
It can also be difficult to find and select the Open Access journal that is perfect for your work. We will try and give you tools and lists of Open Access journals from specific publishers as they become available.
Open Access journals:
Journal selection tools:
DOAJ has over 12 000 accredited journals with no article processing charges (APCs) in over 500 different subjects.
The Library and Information Services (LIS) is also working on transformative agreements:
Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services.
Each transformative agreement we make will be added here, with information on what the agreement includes, e.g. how many articles' fees are included for our authors, or if there are any other restrictions. To benefit from these agreements, use your UFS email address when submitting your work to participating publishers. Make sure you indicate the UFS as your primary institutional affiliation.
