Open Access
Scholarly Communication Librarian
erica.finch@usu.edu
(435) 797-1391
We provide tools and support to help you manage your online scholarly presence, learn more about open access publishing, open education, and answer your questions about copyright and your author rights.
Open Access
Open access refers to publishing models in which your work is disseminated in an open form that is freely accessible online. Research continues to show that making your work open access in any form will increase its impact.
As an open access university, USU is committed to supporting the open dissemination of work produced by USU students and scholars. Per USU Policy 586, the University is granted a non-exclusive license to the scholarly work of all USU employees, to be published open access in the University's institutional repository, Digital Commons. USU authors can easily inform publishers of this agreement by using the copyright addendum.
Support for Open Access
Read and Publish Agreements
USU Libraries has negotiated agreements with several publishers to waive publishing fees in select fully-open journals.
Link to libguide
Startup and Grant Funding
USU researchers can request startup funds to support publication fees, as well as write publication funds into grants
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Library OA Fund
USU Libraries awards $30,000 annually to USU authors to help underwrite the costs of Article Processing Charges (APCs) in peer-reviewed, fully open journals.
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