Open Access literature is offered freely to the world. Many national governments, including the United States, have begun to require that any research receiving public funding must make results available free of charge. There are several evolving models for providing free access to research publications, including:
Green OA: an author or third party archives the author-accepted manuscript by depositing the paper into a free, public-access repository.
Gold OA: a final version of an article is published in a journal which is fully open access. Funding mechanisms vary, but often authors must pay article processing charges.
Hybrid OA: a final version of an article is published in a journal which contains both open and subscription-only articles. In hybrid OA, article processing charges are often necessary.
As these models have become more popular in the publishing industry, libraries have begun to negotiate "transformative agreements" which typically will cover article processing charges for authors at an institution. Quinnipiac Libraries have begun to seek out and negotiate for these types of agreements. The first two such agreements are outlined here.
The Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University offers two large journal packages, ACM and Springer Nature, which allow QU authors to publish OA with no article processing charges.
ACM Open
Quinnipiac-affiliated corresponding authors can publish open access free of charge across ACM’s complete catalog of journals, conference proceedings and magazines. The default Creative Commons license option is CC-BY, although the participating author has the choice to choose any of the Creative Commons license options. See instructions for authors.
It is not necessary to coordinate with the library.
Springer Nature Journals--Hybrid OA Only
QU authors may publish in any hybrid OA journal with no article processing charges. Hybrid journals are those with both open and traditional subscriber-only articles. Springer offers over 2200 hybrid OA journals which are covered by this agreement.
It is not necessary to coordinate with the library.