OhioLINK has negotiated two separate deals that allow for professors from any OhioLINK-affiliated college or university to publish in types of Open Access Journals. Below, you will see the background on the individual deals and their terms. On the pages following this introduction, you will be able to find out more detailed information on the deals and also see links to Q&A pages from OhioLINK that are crafted specifically for faculty.
The agreement between Cambridge University Press and OhioLINK allows for the ability for authors at OhioLINK member institutions to publish open access (OA) journal articles at Cambridge University Press-published journals at no additional charge to either the author or the institution.
OhioLINK's Read & Publish deal with Cambridge applies to articles published as "Gold open access," in either fully open access journals or hybrid open access journals.
Gold open access refers to articles that are published as open access when the author pays an article publishing charge (APC). This APC allows the journal to make the article openly available without any subscription or fee to read. These articles may be published in either a fully gold open access journal (in which all articles are open access, so there is never a subscription fee for the journal) or a hybrid journal (in which authors have the option to publish as open access so that the journal has some open access articles and some subscription access articles.
In order to be eligible to publish open access at no cost in a Cambridge journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article (see below for definition) must be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC), a full-text searchable database of electronic journal articles from top scholarly publishers. There is no limit on the number of times an author can request open access funding under this agreement.
OhioLINK has negotiated an upgraded agreement with Wiley that offers open access publishing benefits for authors at no cost.
Starting in March 2022, students, faculty, and staff at most OhioLINK member institutions now have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in 1,400 hybrid journals published by Wiley at no additional cost to either the author or the institution.
Fully open access journals are not eligible for the open access publishing benefits under this deal.
Open Access (OA) is a way to publish that makes content freely available with no subscription or access fees. Open access often also includes licensing the work to allow for reuse. In order to make articles open, publishers are compensated for their editorial services through an Article Publication Charge (APC), which varies by journal title. OhioLINK's agreement with Wiley gives member authors and institutions the open access option without paying any additional fees.
OhioLINK's open access deal with Wiley applies only to articles published in their 1,400 hybrid open access journals. "Hybrid" means that the journal publishes articles that are available both by subscription and through open access.
Fully OA journals refer to those that only allow authors to publish articles as open access. Fully OA journals are not eligible for the publishing benefits under this deal.
For questions or concerns about the open access publishing deals, please contact:
Joshua Byerly, Electronic Resources and Affordable Learning Librarian
byerlyj2@ohiodominican.edu