Transforming the Academic Publishing Infrastructure
Infrastructure is an important and necessary element of a federated and diverse publishing system, and the Library is committed to supporting useful and robust infrastructures which will enable the move towards open access publishing.
ArXiv - Library Membership
ArXiv is an open platform for research-sharing, particularly of pre-prints, but they also offer other services to help disseminate research. To keep this service free to researchers they rely on funding from academic libraries and other scholarly communications leaders. ArXiv’s model guarantees that funding responsibility is distributed fairly across ArXiv’s dedicated global community.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Supporters
DOAJ supports the discoverability of Open Access Journals. It integrates with StarPlus. Again, our support allows its content to remain freely accessible to everyone.
Dryad - Institutional Members
Dryad is a platform that makes research data easy to find, freely reusable, and citable. Their mission is to promote a world where research data is openly available and part of scholarly literature, while being routinely re-used to create knowledge. The platform is free to users and relies on academic libraries like us for financial support.
SCOAP3 - Partners
The SCOAP3 initiative, run by CERN, provides open access to high energy physics journals without author fees. They aim to do this by sharing and centralising funding for researchers in their field. This allows publishing to not be dependent on the size of research grants or the wealth of the institution.
SCOSS - Supporter Membership
SCOSS (The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is an organisation that supports Open Access and Open Science infrastructure. This provides the necessary underpinning to ensure the long-term accessibility and preservation of open published content. Notably, our membership supports DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) and OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks).
SPARC Europe - Members
SPARC is an advocacy group, pushing for research and education systems that are open by default and equitable by design. A huge part of the transformation of academic publishing towards Open Access is advocacy. The Library undertakes this on a local level, but we also want to support organisations like SPARC as they strategically push for sector-level change.