LibGuides: Copyright for TMU Faculty: Open Access

Open Access Plans & Policies

National Science Foundation Open Access Plan The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Public Access policy is intended to expand public access to the results of its funded research and aligns with the Foundation’s long-standing commitment to clear and open communication of research results, which is central to fulfilling NSF’s primary mission of promoting the progress of science, advancing the frontiers of knowledge, and helping to ensure the nation’s future prosperity.
National Institute of Health Open Access Policy To advance science and improve human health, NIH makes the peer-reviewed articles it funds publicly available on PubMed Central.
Department of Energy Public Access Plan DOE has completed a Public Access Plan, which commits the Department to deploying a web-based portal, the DOE Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES), that will make scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible and searchable at no charge to readers; and to instituting data management principles and requirements that ultimately will apply to proposals for research funding submitted to all DOE program offices.
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Reasons for Publishing Open Access

VISIBILITY You want colleagues without access to expensive journals to be able to find and read your work without having to pay exorbitant access fees.

PUBLIC INTEREST Your research is of potential public interest and you want to make sure it can be found and read.

REUSABILITY You want to make your educational materials, research, or data available for reuse and remixing by others.

COMPLIANCE Your funder requires that you make your research and/or data publicly available.

INNOVATION Your work is too interdisciplinary or too innovative to fit in any of the traditional journals in your field.

ETHICS You object to the enormous profit margins of the big publishers (35%).

INCREASED CITATION COUNTS Studies have shown that publicly available work is cited more widely and more often.

Open Access Publishers

arXiv
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