Florida State University Libraries is launching FSU’s first open-access publishing program. Florida State Open Publishing (FSOP) provides the university’s faculty, students and staff with the digital publishing tools and support needed to produce peer-reviewed, open scholarly publications, educational resources and other digital research outputs.
Created to address gaps in traditional scholarly publishing, FSOP aims to make FSU’s scholarly output more accessible, diverse and innovative.
Designed to serve as an alternative to commercial academic publishers, FSOP is a digitally focused, fully open-access publishing program that supports a diverse range of publications and projects, including experimental scholarship and student research. The program offers platform hosting, technical support and other publishing support services for peer-reviewed journals, open textbooks, monographs, research reports, conference proceedings and additional forms of digital scholarly publishing.
FSOP welcomes projects from all disciplines, languages and FSU-affiliated authors regardless of the scope of their work. Founded on principles of inclusivity and diversity, the program is particularly interested in promoting scholarship by or about underrepresented groups. FSOP’s publications are released under flexible copyright licenses that allow authors to retain their copyrights, enabling them to share their work with colleagues and research communities to reuse their work in innovative ways.
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