Open Access Publishing

LSU Libraries supports open access publishing (OA) and open educational resources (OER) in many ways.  We are also continuing to look for new ways to support OA and OER.  The following is a growing list of our OA initiatives. 

• ACS Open Access Transformative Agreement (note: all open access tokens used for this calendar year) 

• Louisiana State University Libraries and The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) have entered into a transformative open access agreement. The agreement with ACS will provide for up to 38 LSU-affiliated corresponding authors who publish articles under an open access license in any of ACS’s journals with no charge to the authors. The agreement also provides LSU affiliates access to read ACS journals. 

• MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) Open Access Institutional Sponsorship  

• This sponsorship provides LSU researchers a 10% discount on open access article processing charges (APC) for MDPI journals. 

• Participant: Combinatorial Theory 

• LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). The program's goal is to help match libraries, consortia, foundations, departments and other prospective scholarly publishing funders with non-profit publishers and journal editorial boards that are seeking financial investments to sustain or transition journals or books to Open Access (OA) publishing. 

• The Royal Society  

• LSU Libraries has a read and publish agreement with The Royal Society that allows LSU affiliated authors to publish open access in Royal Society journals with no charge to them.  The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. 

• Association for Computing Machinery 

• LSU Libraries has a read and publish agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that allows LSU affiliated authors to publish open access in ACM journals with no charge to them. 

• LSU Digital Commons 

• The LSU Digital Commons repository collects, preserves, publishes, and makes openly accessible the research and scholarship contributed by LSU faculty, staff, students, and units.  

• Springer Nature Open Access Transformative Agreement 

• Louisiana State University Libraries and Springer Nature have entered into a transformative open access agreement.  The agreement will cover the open access article processing charge (APC) for corresponding authors affiliated with LSU to publish in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio.   

• Sage 

• This agreement provides LSU researchers a 10% discount on open access article processing charges (APC) for Sage journals.