Many publishers offer options for researchers to publish their work with an open license. Typically, this involves payment of an article process charge (APC) by the author or their institution. Funds to cover APC can come from a variety of sources, including budgeted grant funds, contractual agreements between an publisher and an institution, and dedicated pools of funds set aside by libraries or research support offices.
The University of New Mexico Libraries does not provide funds for individual APC, which vary from publisher to publisher but average $3000 per article. For information on grants and other funding opportunities relative to APC, please see the Open Access Fees tab of this guide.
Alternatively, the Libraries do enter into agreements with publishers through which our subscription costs include a certain number of APC or other OA publishing options for UNM affiliated authors. Information about the publishers with whom we currently have agreements is provided below.
Take a look at some of the open access resources available in your discipline:
Use these search engines to find articles from repositories anywhere on the Internet.
Interested in OER as faculty?
Head over to the OER Grant Program Libguide for information about how the New Mexico OER Consortium can support your work.
Please check out the link below to a full-text research article which "...found strong evidence that, even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal." (From article abstract).
Publishing OA can increase the visibility of your research and advance the research of your discipline as a whole!
