Open Access

How to make your own work open access:

The following is adapted from this page by the same name, maintained by Peter Suber at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, CC BY 3.0, and Texas State University Libraries, https://www.library.txst.edu/openscholarship/open-access.html. Read the linked pages in full for detailed, current information about:

1. How to publish research in an OA journal ("gold" OA)
   • Choose to budget for open access (OA) publishing in your grant funding application(s)
     • Consider where you anticipate submitting your research for publication, and
       • Look up the APC on the journal's website.
       • If you do not know yet where you will publish, $3,000 per article is a reasonable estimate.
2. How to deposit research in an OA repository ("green" OA)
   • Include your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version in the SRSU Library and Archives Scholarly Faculty Publications digital collection
     • Most publishers will allow sharing the AAM version in the institutional repository; You can also negotiate to include the final version.
3. How to better understand permissions (copyright) for all of the above

Why publish open access?

via Texas State University Libraries, https://www.library.txst.edu/openscholarship/open-access.html

• Compliance: Some grants require open access publication of funded research findings
• Exposure: Wider dissemination, higher visibility, and faster discovery of your research
• Scholarly Impact: Higher citation rates than articles behind a paywall
• Real-World Impact: Practitioners can apply your findings; your research can influence public policy
• Public Access: Texas taxpayers, and the broader public, can access SRSU-affiliated research
• Equity: Researchers in developing countries can access your work