The Iowa State University Library actively supports open access initiatives. We prioritize initiatives that allow authors to publish their research without having to pay publication fees and help readers access research without fees. We do this by investing in organizations and services that support the transition to open scholarly communication models, joining communities comprising like-minded organizations, and signing onto statements advocating for a more open scholarly record.
Advocacy and Community
These organizations and initiatives advocate for transparent, sustainable, and high-impact open practices in scholarly communication.
Authors Alliance creates resources to help authors understand and enjoy their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available and discoverable.
COAR is an international association of repositories and repository networks that builds capacity, aligns policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
DORA recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS Open)
HELIOS Open is a cohort of colleges and universities working together to promote a more transparent and trustworthy research ecosystem.
Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
The Helsinki Initiative promotes the use of multiple languages in research assessment, evaluation, and funding systems to support the dissemination of better and more relevant research outcomes.
IOI supports the increased investment in and adoption of open infrastructure for research and scholarship.
The Library Publishing Coalition is an association of academic and research libraries that extends the impact and sustainability of library publishing and open scholarship.
Open Access 2020 is a global initiative seeking to accelerate the transition of journals from subscription-based publishing to open access.
OASPA is a community of organizations engaged in open scholarship with a mission to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs.
The OEN is a vibrant and supportive community that advances the use of open educational resources and practices. Their work focuses on empowering faculty, removing barriers to education, and enhancing student success.
Peer Community In (PCI)
PCI is an organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free.
Signatories to the SDG Publishers Compact champion the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by adopting sustainable practices and publishing works that relate to the SDGs.
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
SPARC is an advocacy organization that advances open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere, to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world.
S2O is a pragmatic approach for converting subscription journals to open access without reliance on article processing charges.
Publishers and Repositories
These organizations publish or provide access to open access scholarly content.
arXiv is an open access archive of preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of research data.
engrXiv (Engineering Archive) is an open access archive of preprints in engineering.
Hathitrust is a digital library that preserves and provides access to the published record.
Lever Press is an open access scholarly press governed by a consortium of colleges and universities.
MIT Press Direct to Open is a subscription program that supports the publication of new open access books by MIT Press.
Open Book Publishers is an independent publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences.
The Open Library of Humanities is an open access publisher of humanities scholarship based at Birkbeck, University of London.
Opening the Future is a library subscription program that supports the publication of new open access books by academic presses.
Punctum Books is an independent, scholar-led, open access publisher of books in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, architecture, and design.
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)
SCOAP3 is partnership of libraries, funding agencies, and research centers that works with publishes to convert journals in high-energy physics to open access.
Fund to Mission works to transition the University of Michigan Press to an open access monograph publishing program.
Tools and Services
These tools and services support open access by developing infrastructure that supports open access publishing or connecting funders with open access programs.
DOAB is a discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.
DOAJ is an index of open access journals.
Knowledge Unlatched offers a crowdfunding model to support the publication of open access book and journal packages.
OAPEN is an online library of open access academic books.
Lyrasis’s Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) enables the collective funding of diamond open access journals.
Open Book Collective (OBC)
OBC supports publishers working on the production and dissemination of open access books, enabling libraries to provide financial support to open access publishing and open access publishing infrastructures.
Open Research Library (ORL)
ORL aims to provide a central hosting and discovery platform for all academic open access books.
Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for open access books.