March 24, 2025
New Oxford University Press license provides more access, support for open access publishing
Morris Library and the SIU School of Medicine’s Medical Library have a “read and publish agreement” with Oxford University Press (OUP).
The three-year agreement enables all corresponding authors affiliated with SIU Carbondale to publish open access (OA) in more than 500 Oxford University Press journals. There are no open access fees and no limits on the number of OA articles that can be published during the term of the agreement, Andrea Imre, Morris Library’s electronic resources and interim collections librarian, said. The agreement also delivers reading access to the Oxford Full Journals Collection of 350-plus subscription-based titles, which span the humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, mathematics, physical and life sciences, and other subjects.
This open access agreement joins the university’s other agreements with the American Society of Microbiology, Cambridge University Press, The Company of Biologists, Cold Spring Harbor, and the Microbiology Society, all of which waive article processing charges for SIU Carbondale affiliated authors.
Morris Library’s other efforts to expand open access opportunities for SIU Carbondale researchers include OpenSIUC institutional repository, Dryad data repository and Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Programs.
Contact Imre at aimre@siu.edu for more information about any of these agreements.