Open Access Publishing
Open Access Publishing
Open Access Publishing Opportunities
Open access publications are freely available online, with minimal copyright and licensing restrictions that make research easier to access, share, and reuse. Publishing open access helps your work reach a broader audience and expands its scholarly and public impact. CWU Libraries supports open access publishing of student and faculty scholarship through a range of services and funding opportunities.
- Transformative Publisher Agreements
- Open Access Publication Award
- ScholarWorks
Transformative Publisher Agreements
What is a transformative agreement? In essence, a transformative agreement transfers the financial responsibility of open access publication fees from individual authors to the university library.. When working with a participating publisher, CWU students and faculty can publish open access without having to pay article processing charges.
Highlighting Publication Opportunities
We support faculty research through innovative transformative agreements and open access publishing.
Our Participating Publishers
We will update this site with information about any new agreements. Check back regularly for current publishing opportunities.
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACM Publications focuses on computer research and innovation scholarship. ACM Open aims to expand access to scholarly materials and enhance the publication pipeline.
ACS (American Chemical Society)
A division of the American Chemical Society, ACS Publications offers over 85 peer-reviewed journals in chemistry and related sciences. Open access publishing is available free of charge as part of CWU’s subscription to the ACS All Publications Package.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press covers a broad range of topics and research areas. Open Access Publishing with Cambridge promotes wide-spread access to scholarly works and embraces lifting financial burdens for publishing faculty.
For more information and specific eligibility requirements, please follow the publisher links above or contact libraries@cwu.edu.
CWU Libraries - School of Graduate Studies & Research Open Access Publication Award
For publishers not listed above, tenured or tenure-track faculty may apply for up to $1,200 to defray the cost of open access publishing charges.
- Award criteria and application instructions
- Application form
For more information, contact libraries@cwu.edu or SGSR@cwu.edu.
ScholarWorks
Any member of the CWU community may submit theses, published scholarship, conference papers or presentations, white papers, technical reports, or data sets to CWU’s institutional repository, ScholarWorks. Works deposited to ScholarWorks are discoverable by internet search engines and free for anyone to read.
ScholarWorks is also home to the open access journals International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Journal of Math Circles, and Journal of the Symposium of University Research and Creative Expression.
For more information and specific deposit requirements, see our ScholarWorks FAQ or contact ScholarWorks@cwu.edu.