Resources for engineering faculty @CSULB: Open Access

There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA: 

OA archives or repositories per se do not perform peer review but make their contents freely available to the world. They may contain unrefereed preprints, technical reports etc., and refereed postprints and, often a combination of these. Archives may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or be based on subjects (examples: physics and economics). Authors may archive their preprints without anyone else's permission. Most journals permit authors to archive their final referred, corrected copy (postprints) See Institutional Repositories.

On the other hand, OA journals perform peer review and make the approved contents freely available to the world. Frequently, journals charge Article Processing Charges (APCs), on average about $2500, to authors to publish their articles open access. Frequently authors' institutions pay these charges - see this page on funding for CSULB faculty.

Based on Peter Suber's brief description 

Reasons to publish in an Open Access (OA) journal:

- Make your research and data freely available to meet the requirements of funders like the NSF

- Find an OA journal in a specialized area not covered by traditional scholarly journals

- Make your research easily accessible to your fellow researchers worldwide

- Open access journals tend to receive more citations, according to evidence

Reasons NOT  to publish in an OA journal:

- You have applied for a patent

- Be mindful of your department or college's policies if you are aiming for tenure and/or promotion

Apply for funding from ORED (CSULB Faculty only)

CSU/Elsevier Agreement  Through an agreement between Elsevier and CSU, CSULB authors can publish open access in select Elsevier journals at no additional cost to the author. Articles must have an original acceptance date between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2027. Find eligible titles using Elsevier's journal search tool 

Cambridge University Press Journals - after you add country and institution, you will get a list of journals

ACS (American Chemical Society) Agreement

ACM/CSU Agreement (thanks to Cal Poly Pomona for their guide)