Library Guides: Open Access: OA at PSU

PSU Libraries' Support for Open Initiatives

The Libraries and the University provide financial support for a variety of open initiatives supporting open access, open data, open publishing, open education, open research, and open source. This support is part of a broader effort at the Libraries to use the power of openness to support the University’s teaching and research mission.

Shared Core Non-Profit Infrastructure

Academic Preservation Trust
The Academic Preservation Trust is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to providing both a preservation repository for digital content and collaboratively developed services related to that content.
Archive-It
Archive-It is a web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web, built at the Internet Archive.
ArchivesSpace
Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.
CLOCKSS
A collaboration of the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS provides a sustainable dark archive to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly content.
CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm allows users to build, preserve, and showcase their digital collections on a personalized website, making them more discoverable to people around the world.
Crossref
Crossref is a non-profit membership organization that makes research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.
DataCite
DataCite is a leading global non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data and other research outputs.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Fedora
Fedora is a robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content.
LOCKSS
The LOCKSS Program, based at Stanford Libraries, provides services and open-source technologies for high-confidence, resilient, secure digital preservation.
MetaArchive Cooperative
MetaArchive Cooperative is a digital preservation network created and hosted by and for memory organizations.
OAPEN
OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Open Monograph Press
Open Monograph Press is an all-in-one platform with the power to support modern book publishing for a global audience, from the Public Knowledge Project.
Our Research
Our Research's free, open-source tools, including Unpaywall, serve millions of API requests every day, and are relied on by research funders, universities, researchers, and thousands of academic libraries worldwide. The Penn State Libraries support Our Research by subscribing to Unsub, a tool for analyzing journal packages.
Portico
Portico is a community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections.
Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project produces open source publishing platforms for scholarly journals, monographs, and preprints which are a leading force in the global embrace of open access to research for the benefit of all.
Qualitative Data Repository
The Qualitative Data Repository is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences and related disciplines.
Samvera
Samvera’s suite of repository software tools offers flexible and rich user interfaces tailored to distinct content types on top of a robust back end – giving adopters the best of both worlds.

Open Content Investments

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. Annual Reviews' Subscribe to Open program converts gated access journals to open access using existing library relationships and subscription purchases.
arXiv
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Bioline International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.
BioOne Complete
BioOne Complete is a database of more than 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Cambridge University Press
Penn State corresponding authors can publish open access through Cambridge University Press (CUP) at no additional charge, as part of the Libraries' 2021–2023 agreement with Cambridge. This applies to research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports. A small number (less than 10%) of Cambridge journals do not have an open access option and are excluded from the agreement.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation when you submit the article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors publishing in eligible journals will automatically be offered free OA publishing. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.

This agreement has not yet been renewed past December 31, 2023. However, publishing in these journals without charge will remain in place while the BTAA and CUP continue negotiations in January.
Demography
Demography is a platinum open access journal published by Duke University Press, supported by a community of libraries.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Penn State corresponding authors can publish open access in eligible IOP journals, including most of the gold and hybrid OA journals, with no additional charge. Excluded journals are American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals, some society titles that do not allow OA publishing, fully OA journals that do not charge OA fees, and translated and conference titles.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation when you submit the article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors publishing in eligible journals will automatically be offered free OA publishing for primary research articles accepted between January 1st, 2023, and December 31st, 2025. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) is the world's only peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal focused solely on food and farming-related community development. It is a community-supported open access journal.
JSTOR Path to Open
More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part of Path to Open. The initial 100 books will be released on JSTOR in the fall of 2023, with an additional 300 titles being published annually during the term of the pilot, 2024-2026. Path to Open participating libraries will have access to the titles during the first three years, and thereafter all titles will be converted to open access, benefiting readers worldwide.
Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched provides libraries and institutions worldwide with a central place to support OA collections and models from leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives. With their support Knowledge Unlatched transitions monographs and journals in a wide variety of disciplines from paywalled to OA content.
Lever Press
Lever Press is a scholarly press supported by more than 50 liberal arts institutions. Lever publishes peer-reviewed, born digital, open access monographs at no cost to authors or their academic institutions.
Microbiology Society
Penn State corresponding authors can publish open access in all hybrid and fully open access Microbiology Society journals at no additional charge, as part of Penn State’s participation in the 2023-2025 BTAA – Microbiology Society read & publish contract.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation and Penn State email address when you submit your article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors whose articles are accepted in a Microbiology Society journal between January 1st, 2023, and December 31st, 2025, will automatically be offered free OA publishing. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.
MIT Press Direct to Open
Developed over two years with the generous support of the Arcadia Fund, MIT Press Direct to Open gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support access to knowledge. As a participating library, Penn State will help open access to all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections from 2022.
Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
The LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), in partnership with Transitioning Society Publications to OA (TSPOA), provides a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders (including funders, institutions, libraries, authors, and editors) to efficiently and strategically evaluate and collectively fund open access content initiatives. Through OACIP, Penn State supports three journals: Algebraic Combinatorics, History of Media Studies, and Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications.
Open Book Publishers
Open Book Publishers is a non-profit independent open access publisher in the humanities and social sciences. All their monographs and textbooks are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors.
Open Library of the Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). It is funded by an international consortium of libraries.
PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Penn State has open access agreements with PLOS covering all PLOS journals for 2022-2023 and renewed for 2024. There is no fee for open access publication with PLOS if the corresponding author is at Penn State. For contributing authors, the agreement provides a 25% discount on the non-member fee that is levied by PLOS's "Community Action" titles (PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and PLOS Sustainability and Transformation) when the corresponding author is not at a member institution such as Penn State.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation when you submit the article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors publishing in eligible journals will automatically be offered free OA publishing. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.
Punctum Books
Punctum Books is a queer- and scholar-led, community-owned, and peer-reviewed open-access book publisher devoted to cultivating trans-disciplinary and genre-bending scholarly work that takes risks with form and style. The University Libraries support Punctum through its Supporting Library Membership Program.
Reveal Digital
Reveal Digital provides a library crowd-publishing model where libraries pool funds from their acquisitions budgets to develop open access curated primary source collections.
SAGE
Penn State corresponding authors can publish open access through SAGE at no additional charge, as part of the Libraries' agreement with SAGE. This agreement applies to 98% of SAGE titles. The initial agreement ran from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. It has been renewed through December 31, 2024.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation when you submit the article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors publishing in eligible journals will automatically be offered free OA publishing. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.
SCOAP3
SCOAP3 is a partnership of over three thousand libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors. The Libraries also support SCOAP3 for Books.
SCOAP3 for Books
The SCOAP3 for Books initiative is a pilot that the SCOAP3 Governing Council established to leverage the strong network of the Collaboration and the relationships with scholarly publishing to transition key textbooks and monographs in particle physics and neighboring fields to open access.
Open Access Monograph Funding
Penn State University Libraries provides funding for open access monographs as a continuation of the TOME program.
University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission
The University of Michigan Press aims to convert at least 75% of its monographs to open access by the end of 2023, without any author ever having to pay. The Press is working to build a sustainable model by achieving stable funding for this monograph program from three sources: annual funding from the library community, recurring funds from the U-M Provost, and other funder payments.
Wiley
Penn State corresponding authors can publish open access in all Wiley publications (including Hindawi journals) at no additional charge, as part of Penn State’s participation in the 2023-2025 BTAA-Wiley read & publish contract.

To take advantage of this deal, list your Penn State affiliation and Penn State email address when you submit your article. There is no code to enter. Penn State corresponding authors whose articles are accepted in a Wiley hybrid journal or submitted to a Wiley Gold or Hindawi journal between January 1st, 2023, and December 31st, 2025, will automatically be offered free OA publishing. Contact openaccess@psu.edu if you have trouble.

Organizations That Support Open Initiatives

Data Curation Network
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable.
IIIF Consortium
The IIIF Consortium comprises more than 40 Founding Members across the globe who have signed the IIIF-C Memorandum of Understanding, committing to support the growth and adoption of IIIF (the International Image Interoperability Framework).
Library Publishing Coalition
The LPC is an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing.
LYRASIS
LYRASIS is a non-profit membership organization whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide.
OER Foundation
The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that provides leadership, international networking and support for educators and educational institutions to achieve their objectives through Open Education. It leads the OERu and WikiEducator international collaborations.
Open Education Global
OE Global members are organizations involved in developing, implementing and supporting open education. They come from all over the world and from across all education sectors. Penn State is a member.
Open Education Network
The Open Education Network is an active community that promotes access, affordability, and student success through open education.
Software Preservation Network
The Software Preservation Network (SPN) is a leading organization established to advance software preservation through collective action. SPN preserves software through its Affiliated Projects, Strategic Partnerships and member engagement across five core activity areas.
SPARC
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.

PSU Open Access Policies

On April 23, 2019, the Penn State Faculty Senate voted to endorse the Open Access Policy Recommendations from the University’s Open Access Task Force and the Senate Committee on Libraries, Information Systems, and Technology. The policy, AC02: Open Access to Scholarly Articles, has been approved by the president of the university and went into effect on January 1, 2020.

To learn more about AC02, make your articles open, or get a waiver, please visit the Libraries' Open Access Policy website.

Previously, in February 2015, the Library Faculty Organization of the Penn State University Libraries passed an open access policy (now superseded by AC02), and in April 2015, the University Faculty Senate passed an open access resolution.

Open Access

PSU Libraries' Support for Open Initiatives

Shared Core Non-Profit Infrastructure

Open Content Investments

Organizations That Support Open Initiatives

PSU Open Access Policies

Open Access Policies: An Introduction from COAPI