UC Librararies Participate in New Publishing ModelMelissa Cox Norris, Director of Library Communications, melissa.norris@uc.edu |
| UC Libraries are participating in an open-access publishing model that allows UC faculty and researchers to publish in peer-reviewed journals at no cost and provides scholars free access to this research. This new publishing model is made possible through an agreement between OhioLINK and BioMed Central, an online publisher of open access, peer-reviewed biology and medical journals. The agreement makes all 83 OhioLINK university and college libraries institutional members of BioMed Central, and thus allows UC faculty and researchers to publish in BioMed Central’s 100+ journals at no cost, waiving the usual article processing charges. In addition, articles by UC faculty and researchers in BioMed Central’s open-access journals are freely available to the world. Open-access journals offer content free to readers, in contrast to traditional subscription-based journals that charge subscribers a fee. “A consortial membership with BioMed Central is an innovative way to foster publication by our faculty and guarantee ready access to their research,” said Victoria A. Montavon, dean and university librarian. OhioLINK sought an alternative publishing model such as BioMed Central to help address the difficulties many Ohio libraries face in maintaining journal collections negatively affected by a combination of financial constraints and the continued rising costs of journal subscriptions. Articles published by UC faculty and researchers are available on UC’s institutional Web page at www.biomedcentral.com/inst/47909 or via OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center accessible at www.ohiolink.edu where articles by OhioLINK faculty are included.
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