During the 2020-2021 year, the University of Oregon Libraries, in collaboration with the UO Senate Subcommittee on Open Access, launched an Article Processing Charge Award to all UO Researchers publishing in Open Access Journals. Support is ongoing to support the publication of Open Access Books.

As more high-quality journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences turn to an article-fee based Open Access publishing model, researchers are encountering a new financial barrier to publishing: the Article Processing Charge. Yet, Open Access publishing provides much greater access to research in a way that subscription-fee based publishing cannot, and the UO Libraries is pursuing many ways to support high quality Open Access publishing efforts, including this Article Processing Charge Award.

To learn more about the award, visit the OA-APC web page.