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Boatwright Memorial Library

OA Book Initiatives

Open Access & Faculty Scholarship

A guide to issues in scholarly publishing, open access, copyright, author rights, and digital archiving

SciFree Search

NEW search tool - SciFree -  identifies if UR Libraries has a licensing agreement for OA (Open Access) publishing with a journal. Search by publisher, journal title, ISSN, or subject to find journals included in our OA Licensing Agreements.

OA licensing agreements allow publication (with OA access) free of charge or where APC (Article Processing Charges) are paid by UR Libraries' transformative read and publish agreements.

APCs | Transformative Agreements

UR Faculty and Staff are eligible for discounted or free Open Access publishing (often known as "Article Processing Charges" or APCs) from the following publishers. 

UR Libraries participates in many of these initiatives through VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium. The full list of VIVA Open Access Initiatives can be found here: https://vivalib.org/va/collections/openaccess

Instructions for authors are included at each link, but you are also welcome to contact UR Librarians with any questions.

Head, Research & Instruction

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Carol Wittig
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FYS and SPCS Instructor
Office: Rm. 179, Research & Collaborative Area
Boatwright Library,
University of Richmond
261 Richmond Way
Richmond, VA 23173
804.289.8459
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Publishing Models

Publishing Models: The following publishing models identify an academic journal's terms of access that users have to the journal's published content. The terms are based both on how an author/university pays for the journal and how the content of the journal can be accessed.

  • Open Access: All content published is free to read. 
  • Closed Access: Subscription-based access only.
  • Hybrid: A mix of both subscription and open access options are available.
  • Transformative (Read and Publish): A journal that offers both subscription and open access options however the journal is committed to transforming 100% of its content to an open access publication.