Open Access: Trent Library Support

TULA supports OA scholarly publishing through our activities in the provincial consortium of Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and the federal Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). 
 

Author Processing Charge (APC) Discounts

A list of APC discounts available to Trent researchers for publishing OA articles is available through our Publishing Open Access guide.

Trent Library Contributions

The Trent University Library supports the following OA initiatives through monograph purchases and subscriptions:

Monographs

Knowledge Unlatched

Open Book Publishers

  • Open Book Publishers is a leading Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. Benefits of membership for staff & students.

Open the Future (OfF)

  • OfF is an initiative from Central European Press (CEU). Trent is supporting OfF to provide access to a set of 50 books in the 'Library Selection' package, which are available via ProjectMUSE and discoverable through OMNI.

Annual Subscriptions

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

  • A service that provides a curated index of quality peer-reviewed journals.

SCOAP3

  • Focus on select journals in the field of High-Energy Physics.
  • An international partnership of libraries, funding agencies and research centres that collects fees and pays commercial publishers (e.g. Elsevier, Institute of Physics) the costs involved in providing OA.
  • Articles are no cost to authors and available through the SCOAP3 repository.

BioOne

  • A collaboration between librarians, scientific societies, and the private sector aimed at making high-impact peer-reviewed journals available at a reasonable cost.

Héritage Project

  • From Canadiana.org, a long-term project to digitize select Canadian archival collections of primary source documents across a spectrum that includes:
    • genealogy,
    • aboriginal and military history,
    • government documents.
  • Makes documents available for all researchers.
     

Institutional Repository (IR)

Trent University Digital Collections

  • The results of scholarly research can be self-archived,
  • Links to Sherpa/RoMEO for journal copyright practices regarding self-archiving.