OhioLINK, Ohio’s academic library consortium, has entered into a three-year unlimited transformative agreement with society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP).
Beginning January 1, 2023, the agreement enables authors affiliated with participating OhioLINK member institutions to publish their work open access (OA) at no cost to them. It also provides reading access to all 72 IOPP journals across the fields of physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, and mathematics.
The worldwide availability of OA articles results in broader dissemination of scholarship and more citations for authors, which in turn can help to accelerate innovation. The importance of public access to research is acknowledged worldwide, including in the recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, which stated that by the end of 2025 all federally funded research papers and data must be freely and immediately available to the public upon publication.
IOP Publishing has transformative agreements with over 500 institutions in 22 countries and sees them as key to accelerating the OA transition. Details of all IOPP TAs can be found on their dedicated TA hub.
Considered one of the leading library consortia in the United States, OhioLINK has 88 academic library members from public and private institutions, including ten very high and high research-intensive institutions, as well as most two-year colleges. OhioLINK negotiates more than 65 consortia agreements for statewide, shared library resources and services each year.
OhioLINK member institutions can find more information about publishing in IOPP journals at IOPP Journals Open Access Publishing: Information for Authors.
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