On this final day of OA Week, we want to highlight some of the open memberships that UT Austin participates in. We participate in these programs because we want to help create a more sustainable scholarly publishing system. Some of these memberships provide direct benefits to UT Austin authors, and other provide more general benefits to the whole research ecosystem.
- Luminos – open access book publishing from the University of California Press (15% discount on title publication fee for UT authors)
- MDPI – multidisciplinary open access publisher (10% discount on article processing charge (APC) for UT authors)
- PeerJ – OA publisher of seven scientific journals (we’ve deposited funds that UT authors can use to pay their APC)
- Portland Press – publisher of several biological sciences journals (UT authors receive a discount on the APC)
- Qualitative Data Repository – data archive for qualitative and multi-method social science research (our membership covers most curation deposit costs)
- arXiv – preprint repository for physics, math, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering, and economics
- Berghahn Open Anthro – subscribe to open program meaning if enough libraries subscribe (at a small discount) the content will be free to all
- BioOne Complete – database of more than 200 titles in biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
- DataCite – provider of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – online directory of high quality, open access journals
- HathiTrust – large collection of digitized books managed by academic libraries
- Open Book Publishers – multidisciplinary open access book publisher
- Open Library of the Humanities – open access publisher committed to a no author-facing fees model of publication
- ORCID – non-profit organization providing the infrastructure for unique author identifiers
- PhilPapers – index and bibliography of philosophy
- Punctum Books – open access book publisher specializing in non-traditional scholarly monographs
- SCOAP3 – global partnership of libraries, funding agencies, and research institutions that support OA publication of high energy physics journals
- Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) – U.S. government technical reports database
