{"id":5305,"date":"2025-02-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:14:01","slug":"new-open-access-apc-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/2025\/02\/21\/new-open-access-apc-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Open Access APC Discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Thanks to the work of the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL), new Open Access discounts are available for the UNMC community. The Royal Society of Chemistry journals and American Society for Microbiology (ASM) hybrid journals are the newest additions to the OA publishing list. Articles must have been accepted January 2025 or after. <a href=\"https:\/\/unmc.libguides.com\/authortoolkit\/oadiscounts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about activating the discount.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions regarding these agreements, <a href=\"mailto:hlbrown@unmc.edu?subject=Open%20Access%20publishing%20inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email Heather Brown,<\/a> McGoogan Library\u2019s scholarly communications librarian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Open Access at UNMC<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, nearly 200 articles have been published under these agreements, saving the university hundreds of thousands of dollars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGoogan Library supports Open Access (OA) publishing at UNMC through participation in agreements with a number of scholarly publishers, enabling UNMC authors to publish their articles as open access in selected journals at no cost to themselves, or at a discounted fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Royal Society of Chemistry (new addition)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Society for Microbiology (new addition)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wiley and Hindawi\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elsevier\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biochemical Society\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cambridge University Press\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The library subscribes to journals from publishers who provide discounts that are available to UNMC through membership in the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries. McGoogan Library does not pay for article processing charges, or any other fees charged to authors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11192-023-04894-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A recent study in Scientometrics<\/a> shows that open access articles receive higher citation rates and from a wider range of audiences. In addition, the study also noted that, \u201cOpen access through disciplinary or institutional repositories showed a stronger effect than open access via publisher platforms.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the university\u2019s institutional repository, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.unmc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DigitalCommons@UNMC<\/a>, below.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DigitalCommons@UNMC an Institutional Repository<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To further assist in open access strategies, the library provides an open platform that hosts a variety of scholarly outputs, such as conference posters and presentations, preprints, white papers and reports, research instruments, images, and video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.unmc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DigitalCommons@UNMC<\/a> is an institutional repository founded on the tenant of open access and in support of UNMC\u2019s strategic vision to \u201cIncrease the research scope and prominence of UNMC as a top tier academic health sciences center\u201d by providing online access to faculty, staff, and student scholarship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open access principles are central to the design of this repository, which breaks down financial barriers to education and also increases the impact of the work contained within it by showcasing it to the global community. It likewise hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.unmc.edu\/peer_review_list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three UNMC based professional journals<\/a> which provide a platform for UNMC and global authors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/voicedwhispering.php\" title=\" pKCU BKDrVEW i\"> pKCU BKDrVEW i<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the work of the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL), new Open Access discounts are available for the UNMC community. The Royal Society of Chemistry journals and American Society for Microbiology (ASM) hybrid journals are the newest additions to the OA publishing list. Articles must have been accepted January 2025 or after. 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