Copley Library actively supports Open Access, and has approved a statement detailing this support.
The Library also provides University of San Diego-affiliated authors with the following ways to offset the costs of publishing open access:
- Institutional agreements with publishers that provide library-subsidized, fully waived or partially waived open access publishing opportunities
- Digital USD, our institutional repository, that provides immediate, free open access publishing
For a full list of institutional agreements with publishers that Copley offers, and the details of each, please visit the Open Access Publishing guide.
Access to External Memberships
- Digital Commons Network - Open access academic research from top universities that utilize the Digital Commons institutional repository platform
- SPARC - a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education
- COAPI - brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies.
- Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) - web portal that provides global, freely available access to rare, unique and/or uncommon materials in libraries, seminaries, special collections and archives.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - A global network of university, college, and research libraries that has supported original research and multidisciplinary teaching for over 75 years.
- Institutional Open Access Program with MDPI (10% APC discount) - Researchers affiliated with participating universities benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any paper published in an MDPI journal, while the institution incurs no fee for participating in the program.