Publishing Models

The shift from print to digital publishing has had a profound impact on the way scholarship is reviewed, published, and disseminated. This affects how the scholarship you create can be accessed and used by others.

The following graphic can be used as a basic summary of current options. However, this is an area that is in flux, due to changes in the way scholarship is funded and the growing interest in making research, including the components of research such as datasets, more openly available.

The library does not currently provide funding that would pay Article Processing Charges (APC) for making scholarship open access. The recommendation for the past several years has been to work with your department chairs or deans of the various colleges to seek funding. Faculty may also consider applying to other institutes on campus.

Faculty may also be able to seek funding assistance for APCs from other academic institutions or from other funding organizations.

Many publishers offer fee assistance programs, which might include a discount or even a waiver if certain conditions are met. It’s also important to note that many OA journals do NOT charge APCs or other fees. A good place to look for these types of OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) site.

APC Discounts/Waivers for ND Researchers (Institutional Memberships)

MDPI

The University of Notre Dame has an institutional membership with open access publisher MDPI. Researchers who choose to publish in an MDPI journal will receive a 10% discount on the APC for that journal.

BioMed Central/SpringerOpen

The University of Notre Dame has a membership to BioMed Central (BMC) that provides a discount on APCs for any SpringerOpen or BMC journal. Submission guidelines for authors related to these discounts can be found here.

APC Discounts for ND Researchers (Negotiated/Licensed)

American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) - Science Advances journal

Because of our institutional subscription to AAAS journals, University of Notre Dame researchers receive a 15% discount on APCs for this OA journal.

American Chemical Society

Because of our institutional subscription to ACS journals, University of Notre Dame researchers qualify for a discount on APCs for journals included in ACS AuthorChoice titles.

National Academy of Sciences - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal

Because of our institutional subscription to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), University of Notre Dame researchers qualify for a discount of approximately 25% on APCs for this journal. More information on this program can be found here.

SPIE - The International Society for Optics & Photonics

Because of our institutional subscription to the SPIE Digital Library, University of Notre Dame researchers qualify for a discount of 25% on APCs for SPIE journals. More information on this program can be found here.

EDP Sciences - Astronomy & Astrophysics journal

Because of our institutional subscription to Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, University of Notre Dame researchers do not pay an APC for open access articles published in this journal. More information on this program can be found here.

Green open access (OA), also referred to as self-archiving, allows researchers to deposit a copy of their work in a digital repository in order to make it freely accessible. The copy that is self-archived is usually not the same version of the work that is published commercially, and the version that is allowed to be deposited depends on the publisher's copyright policy or the rights negotiated in the publication agreement. Unlike Gold OA, there are no APCs or other charges associated with self-archiving.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame can deposit their work in CurateND, the university's institutional repository. To learn more about publisher copyright policies related to self-archiving, refer to the SHERPA/RoMEO database.