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UTSA Memberships and Publisher Open Access Agreements
UTSA Libraries continuously seeks partnerships with organizations and publishers to reduce costs and provide value for our researchers. Below is a list of our current memberships and open access agreements with publishers. For more information on the benefits of a specific membership, reach out to your subject librarian.
Publisher and Open Access Agreements
The library does not currently fund Article Processing Charges (APCs) but encourages UTSA researchers to take advantage of these APC discounts we have negotiated with publishers.
| Publisher | Discount |
|---|---|
| ACM Open (Association for Computing Machinery) | APCs waived at 100% |
| BioMed Central | 15% discount on APCs |
| Cambridge University Press | APCs waived at 100% |
| Elsevier | 10% or 15% discount on APCs, depending on the journal |
| IOP (Institute of Physics) | APCs waived at 100% |
| MDPI | 10% discount on APCs |
| Sage | APCs waived at 100% |
| Springer Open | 15% discount on APCs |
Memberships
- Annual Reviews Subscribe to Open (S2O)S2O is a membership program that allows conversion of subscription-based Annual Review titles to Open Access. Existing institutional customers continue to subscribe to the journals. With sufficient support, every new volume is immediately converted to OA under a Creative Commons license and is available for everyone to read and re-use. In addition, all articles from the most recent nine volumes are also accessible to all. If support is insufficient, the paywall is retained.
- HathiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- Knowledge UnlatchedKnowledge Unlatched is an Open Access service provider registered as a for-profit GmbH in Berlin, Germany. It offers a crowdfunding model to support a variety of Open Access book and journal content packages as well as the financial funding of partnerships.
- MIT Press' Direct to Open ProgramDirect to Open harnesses collective action to support open access to MIT scholarship. Libraries contribute funding towards making all new MIT Press scholarly monographs open access and in return receive access to additional materials.
- ORCID
(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) (‘or-kid) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of persistent unique digital identifiers which are linked to researchers' scholarly and grant activities. - PhilPapers.orgPhilpapers is an online research hub in philosophy that contains a publication index and open access archive.
- SCOAP3Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership of over three thousand libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organisations. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors.
- Texas Digital LibraryThe Texas Digital Library is a consortium of Texas higher education institutions that builds capacity for preserving, managing, and providing access to unique digital collections of enduring value.
- TRAILThe Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. TRAIL currently consists of over four dozen member institutions whose annual membership fees and volunteered staff time further the efforts of the project. View digitized content at: http://www.technicalreports.org/
- University of Michigan's Fund to Mission ProgramThe Fund to Mission program's goal is to convert University of Michigan Press new scholarly monographs to open access by 2023. Libraries contribute funding in return for access to additional titles.
Runner Research Press
UTSA's Runner Research Press is an open access repository that collects, preserves and disseminates the scholarly and creative output of the university. Faculty are encouraged to submit their work for inclusion in RRP. To learn more about the submission process, contact rrpress@utsa.edu.
- Runner Research PressRunner Research Press is an online repository of scholarly and creative work produced at UTSA that stimulates research, discovery and learning with the goal of engaging and transforming our diverse communities through open, inclusive access.
OER Adoption at UTSA
Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible online teaching and learning materials. They can be videos, textbooks, quizzes, learning modules and more. Using OER in your classroom can save you time and your students money.
"Infographic: Impact of Student Textbook Costs on Student Progress” by Florida Virtual Campus Office of Distance Learning & Student Services, 2018 is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- Texas Learn OER Module 3: Why OER?Module 3 of the Texas Learn OER course through Digitex. Course outcomes: articulate motivations for OER adoptions and use; describe the benefits of OER for students; describe the benefits of OER for faculty; explore further benefits that OER supports, such as equity and inclusion/
UTSA Libraries Adopt a Free Textbook Grants (Grants open January 1, 2021 for Fall 2021 adoption.)
- Awarded to all courses
- Applications proposing the use of OER, library resources, or other affordable learning materials
Two Tiers
- Individual: $1,000 for a faculty member to adopt a free textbook in one course
- Group: $1,500 - $7,000 (calculated based on number of students impacted) for faculty to adopt a free textbook in a course (minimum 3 instructor collaboration or all instructors for a course)
- THECB Open Educational Resources Grant Program: Application deadline June 15, 2020.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board OER Grants are awarded to Texas core courses that utilize true Creative Commons licenses. Grants are awarded in two tiers. The development tier will reward up to $25,000 to develop or substantially improve one or more high-enrollment Texas core courses. The implementation tier will grant up to $5,000 to support the substantial redesign of one or more Texas core courses with OER. For more information, please contact DeeAnn Ivie, UTSA Libraries OER Coordinator.