OhioLINK is Ohio’s academic library consortium, providing faculty and students with access to a vast collection of scholarly resources, including millions of journal articles, eBooks, and databases, as well as interlibrary loan from over 38 million print items.
OhioLINK also negotiates open-access publishing agreements that allow authors to publish without author's fees. For more details and resources, visit OhioLINK Open Access for Authors.
Open access (OA) is a way to publish that makes content freely available to read with no subscription or access fees, as well as licensing the work to allow for reuse. OhioLINK's Read & Publish deal with Cambridge applies to articles published as "Gold open access," in either fully open access journals or hybrid open access journals.
Gold open access refers to articles that are published as open access when the author pays an article publishing charge (APC). This APC allows the journal to make the article openly available without any subscription or fee to read. These articles may be published in either a fully gold open access journal (in which all articles are open access, so there is never a subscription fee for the journal) or a hybrid journal (in which authors have the option to publish as open access, so that the journal has some open access articles and some subscription access articles).
By publishing your articles as Open Access (OA), you will give more people access to your work, especially those who do not have the means to pay for a subscription. OA content is still copyrighted, and you retain the same rights as you would with a traditional journal publication.
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