Penn State University Libraries, through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), recently finalized three-year, 2023-25 agreements with three scholarly publishers. The agreements with Wiley, Institute of Physics and Microbiology Society will help to expand access to scholarly content, promote open access (OA) publishing, and increase visibility of Penn State research.
These agreements join a growing list of University Libraries' support for open access publishing, including similar agreements with Cambridge University Press, Public Library of Science and SAGE. They also support open access through the implementation of Penn State’s open access policy by funding open access monograph publishing by university presses through the TOME Initiative and the Libraries Open Publishing Program.
The agreements with Wiley, Institute of Physics (IOP) and Microbiology Society cover OA publishing charges for Penn State corresponding authors publishing in these publishers’ journals. Those qualified articles will be immediately open access on the publisher’s platform. These publishers will offer a choice of open access licenses to Penn State authors publishing in their journals. Authors retain copyright in their articles.
The agreements run for three years from Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2025. In general, articles will need to be accepted during the agreements’ timeframe. The agreements also cover subscriptions and read access to Wiley, Institute of Physics (IOP) and Microbiology Society journals. Unlimited open access publishing is included with no additional cost to individual Penn State authors.
For additional details, see the BTAA announcements for Wiley, IOP and Microbiology Society. Penn State faculty authors seeking more information about OA publishing and discounts for author publishing charges are encouraged to visit the Libraries’ Open Access LibGuide under the section “APC Discounts for PSU Authors.”
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