Open Access Publishing
Open Access (OA) is a publishing model that makes scholarly publishing available online to readers for free, allowing for the full text to be read, downloaded or shared online without financial, legal, or technical barriers.
To support open access publishing, Northwestern Libraries
- sign read and publish agreements with publishers that waive article processing fees
- support open access infrastructure and initiatives
To learn more, reach out to library@northwestern.edu.
Publisher agreements
Agreements with the following publishers allows eligible articles to be published open access. Unless noted below, for all agreements
- the corresponding author must be affiliated with Northwestern University
- article processing charges (APCs) will be waived for corresponding Northwestern authors
- Northwestern authors retain rights to their work
| Publisher | Journals included | Journals excepted | Effective dates for current agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | All ACM conferences, journals, and magazines, for which ACM manages production and rights, are eligible for Open Access publishing | January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2027 | |
| Cambridge University Press | All Gold Open Access titles except those noted in this table |
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January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026 |
| Cogitatio Press |
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January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025 | |
| Company of Biologists |
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January 1, 2023 - Ongoing | |
| IOP ScienceXtra | Use IOP Publishing journal search tool | January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025 | |
| Microbiology Society |
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January 2023 - December 2025 | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | All hybrid and gold open access portfolio journals | RSC Advances | January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026 |
| Wiley | All fully open access or hybrid journals | January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2026 |
Open publishing initiatives
Northwestern Libraries supports open access publishing by using its resources and memberships in academic alliances, such as the Big Ten Academic Alliance, to support the following initiatives:
- arXiv: Northwestern Libraries supports arXiv, a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Northwestern Libraries supports DOAB, a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) books and open access book publishers.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Northwestern Libraries supports DOAJ, a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
- Open Library of Humanities: Northwestern Libraries supports OLH to publish peer-reviewed open scholarship in humanities topics.
- SCOAP3: Northwestern Libraries supports SCOAP3 (the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) to offer open access publishing opportunities for journals related to high-energy physics.
- University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission: Northwestern Libraries supports U-M Press' Fund to Mission, a publishing model transitioning at least 75% of U-M Press monographs published annually to open access.
Questions?
Contact library@northwestern.edu or your subject librarian to discuss opportunities to publish open access in your field.