Help advance open access to scholarship and research at SRSU and beyond!
Help raise awareness. Describe how open access accelerates change by disseminating research widely and immediately. Explain how open access can raise the visibility and impact of research.
Choose OA publication outlets for your scholarship whenever possible
Contribute to a disciplinary repository or an institutional repository such as the SRSU Faculty Publications digital collection
Encourage your colleagues, students, and mentees to publish open access
Advocate for changes in the promotion, tenure, and retention process to value peer-reviewed open access articles equally with comparable articles published in subscription-based journals
Support open access journals by accepting their offers to serve on the editorial board or invitations to perform peer-review
Promote open access within your professional or scholarly society. Help persuade your society to makes its own journal open access.
SRSU Library and Archives OA Initiatives
The SRSU Library and Archives encourages open access (OA) publishing and provides SRSU-affiliated researchers ways to offset costs associated with OA publishing:
Currently Available Financial Support for SRSU Authors
SRSU is a member of TLCUA. Elsevier and TLCUA have established an agreement to support authors who wish to publish open access. The cost of publishing open access is reduced under the terms of this agreement. Eligible corresponding authors receive a discount on the article publishing charge (APC).