Library Support for Equitable OA

White Rose University Press

White Rose University Press (WRUP) is the University of Sheffield’s in-house university press. It is a not-for-profit, open access press, publishing open access journals and books across a wide range of disciplines jointly run by the White Rose Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York.

WRUP embodies the White Rose universities’ commitment to openly disseminating research and teaching materials, publishing high quality research outputs, and pursuing digital innovation in publishing.

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A-Z of Library Supported OA Initiatives

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African Minds

See OBC.

Annual Reviews - Subscribe to Open (S2O)

We support Annual Review’s S2O model, which transitions subscription journals to open access. If enough institutions subscribe, the content for that year becomes freely available to everyone.

ARC Humanities Press - New Voices Awards

Our contribution to New Voices helps fund the open access publication of monographs by early-career scholars.

ArXiv - Library Membership

Our membership supports the operation and development of ArXiv, a free, open-access repository for preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields.

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Central European University Press - Opening the Future

The Opening the Future model uses library subscriptions to a publisher's backlist to fund the open access publication of new frontlist titles.

CLOCKSS

We support CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a dark archive that ensures the long-term preservation and perpetual access to digital scholarly content, including open access materials, in case of publisher failure or other trigger events.

Cogitatio Press

Our support for Cogitatio Press helps sustain their open access publishing. They publish peer-reviewed academic journals across social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Supporters

Our support helps maintain DOAJ, an essential community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Dryad - Institutional Members

Our institutional membership supports Dryad, a general-purpose curated repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable, often waiving data publishing charges for our researchers.

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eLife

Our support contributes to eLife, a not-for-profit organization that publishes open access research in the life and biomedical sciences, aiming to improve the experience of publishing and evaluating research.

European Mathematical Society (EMS) - Subscribe to Open (S2O)

Through participation in EMS’s S2O model, we contribute to making leading mathematics journals freely accessible by replacing subscriptions with collective library funding.

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Flybase - Funding Contributors

We provide financial backing for Flybase, an essential open-access resource on Drosophila genetics and molecular biology, ensuring researchers worldwide can freely access its comprehensive data.

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JMIR - Journal of Medical Internet Research

By funding JMIR, we help maintain open-access publishing in health informatics and digital health, supporting the dissemination of high-impact, peer-reviewed research.

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Lever Press - OA Supporter Members

Our membership helps sustain Lever Press, a library-supported open access publisher dedicated to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs in the humanities at no cost to authors.

Leuven University Press

See OBC.

Liverpool University Press (LUP) - Opening the Future

LUP’s model uses library subscriptions to its backlist collections to fund the publication of new open-access monographs.

LSE Press Journals Supporter Members

As a supporter member, we help maintain the open-access publication of LSE Press journals, ensuring scholarly content from the London School of Economics is freely available.

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Make Data Count (DataCite)

We contribute to Make Data Count, an initiative focused on developing and implementing open, community-led metrics for research data, ensuring data are recognized as citable research outputs.

Mattering Press

See OBC.

Media Studies Press

See OBC.

MIT Press - Direct to Open (D2O)

The MIT Press D20 is a collective action model where library support directly funds the open access publication of new monographs from MIT Press.

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OAPEN & DOAB

See OBC.

Open Book Collective (OBC)

We channel support for multiple open-access publishers and initiatives through the Open Book Collective, a not-for-profit platform that simplifies funding for scholar-led and small-to-medium OA presses. By participating in OBC, we can back a range of initiatives through a single membership.

This includes, but is not limited to, our support for: 

• African Minds: Funding helps make scholarly books and journals—particularly those from and about Africa—freely available.
• Leuven University Press:  Participation sustains Leuven University Press’s open-access publishing programme.
• Mattering Press: Backing this press supports its focus on interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences in open access.
• Media Studies Press: Funding contributes to the publication of critical media studies research in open access.
• OAPEN & DOAB: Support strengthens OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) and DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), improving the accessibility and discoverability of OA books.
• Open Book Publishers: Our direct library support contributes to this leading independent open access publisher of academic monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
• Punctum Books: Funding supports this independent OA publisher specialising in the humanities, social sciences, and arts.
• Thoth Metadata: Backing Thoth helps develop and maintain an open metadata platform tailored for OA books, increasing their visibility.
• White Horse Press: Direct support sustains this independent academic press with a focus on environmental humanities and social sciences.

A full list of OBC’s Initiatives, including those about can be found on their Support OA Initiatives webpage.

Open Book Publishers

See OBC.

Open Library of Humanities (OLH)

 We support OLH, a charitable initiative dedicated to publishing open access humanities research without author-facing charges, funded collectively by libraries worldwide.

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Peer Community Journal (Jisc OACF)

 Through the Jisc Open Access Community Framework, we support the Peer Community Journal, a diamond open access journal and part of a peer review and publishing platform for scientific preprints.

PeerJ Annual Institutional Membership

This membership allows our affiliated authors to publish an unlimited number of articles in PeerJ's open access journals across biology, medicine, and environmental sciences without paying individual Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Peter Lang – Greenlight

Participation in Peter Lang's Greenlight program enables the open access publication of selected academic monographs.

PLoS (Public Library of Science)

We help sustain PLoS, a pioneering open access scientific publisher, which publishes a suite of high-quality, peer-reviewed open access journals across various scientific disciplines.

Pluto Journals - Subscribe to Open (S2O)

Our involvement in Pluto Journals’ S2O programme supports the transition of its titles to open access.

Pressbooks & The Open Educational Network (OEN)

We support Pressbooks, an open-source platform for creating and publishing open educational resources (OERs) and other open access books, often in conjunction with the Open Education Network which promotes OER adoption.

PsyArXiv

We support PsyArXiv, a free, open-access preprint server for psychological science, allowing researchers to share their work rapidly before formal peer review.

Punctum Books

See OBC.

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SciPost (Jisc OACF)

Our support via the Jisc Open Access Community Framework contributes to SciPost, a non-profit foundation dedicated to building and operating sustainable open access scientific publishing platforms.

SCOAP3 - Partners

We are partners in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a global initiative that converts leading journals in High Energy Physics to open access through a collective funding model.

SCOSS - Supporter Membership

Membership in SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) contributes to the long-term viability of key open science infrastructure and services.

Sidestone Press - Library Programme

By participating in Sidestone Press's library programme, we help make scholarly books (particularly in archaeology) openly accessible.

SPARC Europe - Members

Our membership in SPARC Europe supports their advocacy and efforts to make research open and accessible in Europe, promoting open science policies and practices.

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The Programming Historian - OA Supporter Membership

We support The Programming Historian, which publishes peer-reviewed, open access tutorials that help humanists and social scientists learn digital methods.

Thoth Metadata

See OBC.

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Ubiquity Press - OA Membership

Membership with Ubiquity Press supports its mission to publish open-access books and journals and to promote open science practices.

University of London Press

Participation in the University of London Press' open-access initiatives ensures its scholarly publications are freely available to readers worldwide.

University of Michigan Press - Fund to Mission

Engagement with UMP’s Fund to Mission model supports the transition of a substantial portion of its scholarly monographs to open access, without charging authors.

University of Westminster Press

Our support contributes to the open access publications of the University of Westminster Press, a university press committed to open scholarship.

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White Horse Press

See OBC.