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Amherst College Open Access Resolution

  • In their efforts to make information open to all, the Amherst College faculty have adopted an open access resolution.
  • The policy requires Amherst faculty to submit an electronic copy of all scholarly articles to the Provost's office. The Provost's office may then post that article in an Open Access repository.
  • Faculty who wish to share their articles in an Open Access repository are encouraged to identify an appropriate discipline-based repository in order to reach the widest possible audience. 

Open Access Publication Charges (changes effective Spring 2023)

  • The library will make up to $20,000 available each year from its materials budget to support open access publishing.
  • Amherst College faculty publishing in peer-reviewed, open access publications may request up to $2,000 in assistance from the Library to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs).
  • Any funds not allocated by April 30th will return to the library’s materials budget. Fees charged by non-open-access journals/books to make individual articles/chapters freely available are not eligible for this grant.
  • Faculty with co-authors at other institutions that offer APC/BPC support should coordinate funding requests across institutions to split costs when possible.
  • Please contact Martin Garnar (mgarnar@amherst.edu) for information about subsidies.

"Read & Publish" Agreements with Amherst

  • Read and Publish Agreements combine OA publishing costs with our traditional reading-access journal subscription costs.
  • The Amherst College Library now has Read and Publish Agreements with Cambridge University Press and IOP Publishing, allowing Amherst College-affiliated authors to publish articles OA at no cost to you in over 500 OA or Hybrid journals.
  • Check out a list of those journals here! 
  • To utilize the Read and Publish Agreement, follow the instructions at the publisher's site (linked above) and use your Amherst College email when submitting your article.
  • If you have questions about publishing under these agreements, please reach out to Johanna Radding, our Electronic Resources & Discovery Librarian.

Amherst College Press: Open-Access Book Publishing

  • Interested in learning more about OA book publishing? Consider getting involved with Amherst College Press, an OA scholarly press based in Frost Library.
  • ACP publishes books in the humanities and humanistic social studies with special interests in accessible works that cross disciplinary boundaries and explore and expand formats of the book.
  • ACP charges no fees to authors or their institutions. As a member of the Association of University Presses, all projects are peer-reviewed and board-approved. Amherst faculty are invited to propose a series in one of our list areas and are encouraged to serve on our faculty board.
  • For more details, check out our website www.acpress.amherst.edu or email Press Director, Beth Bouloukos (bbouloukos@amherst.edu) or Acquisitions Editor, Hannah Brooks-Motl (hbrooksmotl@amherst.edu).

Amherst College Dataverse: A Data Repository

Amherst College now has a Dataverse collection through the Harvard Dataverse. Dataverse is an open source repository to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. We welcome faculty to share their research data through the Amherst College Dataverse. 

If interested, reach out to Stephanie Capsuto to get started! 

Open Access Repositories: Literature

Open Access Repositories are databases of scholarly material (journal articles, datasets, etc.) that are freely available with the goal of availability to all, preservation, and storage. Most repositories have authors directly upload a version (usually a preprint) of their material. 

Some repositories that are commonly used: 

There are many more repositories for both general and specific disciplines. 

Look for additional repositories here:

Open Access Repositories: Data

Places to find Open Access Data Repositories

 

Data Repositories: 

(This is not a definitive list, but are some of the most popular.)