Open access is a movement that encourages making scholarly resources more freely available over the internet. The goal is to maximize the impact of research, particularly research that has been funded with public money.
Open Access Week is a global event where members of the academic and research community teach, learn, and share information about this publishing model.
Open Access at The Ohio State University
Over 50,000 theses and dissertations by Ohio State students are open access via The Ohio State University Libraries’ partnership with the OhioLINK ETD Center. With participation from thirty universities and colleges in Ohio, the OhioLink ETD Center surpassed 100,000 submissions in 2019, with over 85 million total downloads worldwide.
The Ohio State University Libraries has agreements with publishers (including consortial agreements through OhioLINK and the Big Ten Academic Alliance) that cover Open Access fees (also known as article processing charges or APCs) at no cost to Ohio State corresponding authors for eligible articles and journals. Additionally, The Ohio State University Libraries provides Open Access funding for Ohio State faculty authored scholarly monographs that are published with university presses. More information on Open Access Publishing Agreements and Open Access Monographs is available on the Transforming Scholarly Publishing @ Ohio State website.
The Ohio State institutional repository, the Knowledge Bank, provides digital content publishing and archiving for faculty, staff, and graduate students. Materials in the Knowledge Bank are available as open access worldwide. Additionally, some works are openly licensed under a Creative Commons license.
The University Libraries' Publishing Program works with faculty, students, and academic units at The Ohio State University to publish open access scholarly work in a variety of formats. This program provides free or low-cost publication development and hosting, and serves as an alternative to working with a commercial publisher. Content on the University Libraries’ website for which University Libraries owns the copyright (or has permission to sublicense) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. For more information, please visit: https://go.osu.edu/osul-copyright-info.
The faculty of University Libraries is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the faculty adopted an open access resolution effective July 1, 2012: The Ohio State University Libraries Open Access Resolution.
Open Access Resources
- Open Access by Peter Suber
- Open Access by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) - (SPARC) Advocacy organization for changes in and new methods of scholarly communication.
- SHERPA/ROMEO - Find information about publishers' copyright policies and authors' self-archiving rights.
- Health Sciences Copyright Management Office - Copyright information for The Ohio State University Health Sciences community.
- Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible- A guide from the Authors Alliance for authors who want to make their works open and widely available.
- Open Access FAQ- Learn more about the basics of open access from the Authors Alliance.
DISCLAIMER: The information on these web pages and that received from Copyright Services at The Ohio State University Libraries and the Health Sciences Copyright Coordinator is not legal advice, nor is either office legal counsel to the university or any members of the university community.