Syracuse University Libraries has signed an agreement with PLOS that will take effect in 2022 eliminating author fees for individual corresponding Syracuse University authors. This transformative agreement is on the heels of the first one signed with the American Chemical Society in spring 2021. These agreements expand University researchers’ scientific contributions by allowing authors to make their article open access at no cost to the author. Open access provides students, faculty and researchers with scholarly work that is published, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
The PLOS agreement was negotiated through SU Libraries’ consortiums, NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The three-year agreement provides researchers from NERL- and CRL-affiliated institutions, including Syracuse University, with unlimited publishing privileges in PLOS journals without incurring fees.
According to Scott Warren, the Libraries’ associate dean for research excellence, the Libraries are making it easier for University authors to publish where and how they want. The Libraries is also helping drive systemic change in journal publishing. Open access publishing is expanding rapidly, and Syracuse University Libraries is committed to finding ways to facilitate greater access to University authored research to expand its reach and impact. These agreements are instrumental to develop systems that provide greater global access to research while simultaneously investigating ways to make open publishing easier for Syracuse authors.
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