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    UAlberta Library signs open access publishing agreements with Wiley and PLOS

    by Guest Author February 8, 2023
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    This post was written by the Head of the Library’s Collections Strategy Unit, Trish Chatterley

    Article Processing Charges (APCs) can present a significant financial barrier or expense for researchers who would prefer to make their articles available in Open Access format and freely available for all to read upon publication. The University of Alberta Library is pursuing new contract models with various publishers in order to eliminate those costs for UAlberta authors, facilitating widespread dissemination of UAlberta research.

    The Wiley Agreement

    The new two-year agreement for 2023-24 with Wiley enables UAlberta corresponding authors to publish eligible articles in subscription-based journals under an open license without incurring APCs.  The agreement was negotiated nationally via the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), enabling researchers from the 71 institutions taking part to make their articles freely available to be read by all.

    Wiley publishes more than 1,330 subscription-based journals across a range of disciplines, with an average APC of $3,500 USD. As noted above, UAlberta corresponding authors publishing in any of those journals will not incur APCs. Authors must use their @ualberta.ca email address in order for their affiliation to be recognized. Articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s Gold OA journals are not covered under this agreement. The agreement includes full reading rights to all Wiley journals.

    This agreement should result in substantial impact for the university since according to data pulled from the Web of Science, it is the third top publisher in which UAlberta researchers publish, after Elsevier and Springer.  Further detail about this agreement and a guide can be found on the Wiley website. 

    The PLOS Agreement

    The new two-year agreement for 2023-24 with PLOS grants UAlberta authors unlimited APC-free publishing in all 12 PLOS journals, including PLOS ONE.  PLOS is a non-profit, fully open access publisher with a suite of journals in science and medicine. This agreement was also negotiated via CRKN.

    “We are delighted to have increased the range of APC-free open access options available to UAlberta researchers through these two agreements,” said Denise LaFitte, Associate University Librarian at UAlberta and Chair of the CRKN Content Strategy Committee. “The potential for thousands of new articles by Canadian researchers to be openly available is significant.”

    To view a list of all publishers for which APCs are either eliminated or discounted, please visit the library’s Open Access Article Processing Charge Support webpage. For questions or comments related to these agreements, please contact the Library’s Collection Strategies Unit at csu@ualberta.ca. 

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  • The Problem with Predatory Publishers & How to Avoid Them

    by Guest Author October 6, 2022
    by Guest Author October 6, 2022

    This post was written by Librarian, Janice Kung Predatory publishing, also known as deceptive publishing or questionable publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that takes advantage of the open access model by charging publication fees (article processing charges, or APCs) to authors when manuscripts are accepted for publication. While this is a regular practice with open access journals, predatory journals forgo the quality peer-review and editorial processes that are expected…

  • ISTL: Celebrating 100 Issues of Science & Technology Librarianship!

    by Emily Zheng September 13, 2022
    by Emily Zheng September 13, 2022

    Congratulations to ISTL: Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, for publishing their 100th issue this month!  With its first issue published way back in 1991, ISTL was an early adopter of the electronic publishing medium. Back then, they were distributed using simple text files, and used ASCII art to represent the logo of STS (Science and Technology Section of the American Library Association)! Over the years, ISTL’s format evolved into HTML and…

  • Choosing Open: How to find an open access route that works for you

    by Emily Zheng October 26, 2021
    by Emily Zheng October 26, 2021

    This post was revised on October 28, 2021. To mark International Open Access (OA) week this year, we’ve prepared a guide on how to find an open avenue for disseminating your own research. We’ve written about OA many times, right here on this blog! See what others are doing around the world, by visiting Open Access Week’s website! Why Open? Traditionally, commercial scholarly publications have been only available to those who can…

  • LIBRARY STAFF WORKING FROM HOME: MEET EMILY!

    by Eva Romanick January 12, 2021
    by Eva Romanick January 12, 2021

    With the majority of students and staff being advised to work and study from home, this is how our staff are supporting online learning… As the Publishing & Digitization Specialist on the Library Publishing and Digital Production Services team, Emily is busy answering emails on the daily. On the “publishing” side, Digital Initiatives supports journal editors and textbook authors working on open access projects. For many students, researchers, authors and editors who…

  • Student Journal Spotlight: Axis Mundi

    by Emily Zheng April 14, 2020
    by Emily Zheng April 14, 2020

    About a dozen student-run journals operate as a part of UAlberta’s Library Publishing Program, which supports open access publishing using the open-source platform, OJS (Open Journal Systems). These journals are edited by students, and feature the work of hundreds of student researchers from a variety of disciplines. One of these journals is Axis Mundi: A Journal of Religious Studies. Axis Mundi is an online journal edited and maintained by Religious Studies graduate…

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