SMU Scholar is a complement to traditional publishing. It hosts collections for many colleges and departments already, and more can be added.
Your work can still be published in any number of traditional outlets. If you do not sign away your authors' rights, you may be able to store a copy in SMU Scholar too. See directions on how to submit your materials here.
The library has publishing agreements to pay Article Processing Charges (APC's) in order to publish as Gold Open Access in several selected journals.
SMU currently has OA publishing agreements with these publishers:
This list is expected to grow as we sign more transformative agreements with publishers, so check back frequently.
Submit your article via the typical submission process for that journal. After manuscript acceptance, if the journal has an open access agreement with us, you will be advised that OA publishing is available to you, with SMU paying the publication costs. You can choose whether or not to accept it.
What will SMU pay for?
SMU's agreements with the publishers listed under Gold OA will cover all the Article Processing Charges (APCs) so that your article can be freely available anywhere on the internet, at no cost to you.
What about errata?
The charge for errata is covered.
What about over-length charges?
Some journals (particularly IEEE journals) charge if an article goes over a certain page length. This charge is not covered by SMU.
OA content, both text and multimedia, is frequently published with Creative Commons (CC) licenses. CC licenses give you more control over how people can reuse your work:
You can also combine some of the above licenses, such as CC BY-NC-ND. Read more about the license options here.
In addition to the options listed on this page, other high-quality publications are also OA. Use these tools to help find them: