There is no common institutional approach to open access publishing or to funding APCs. In general, faculty in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences are eager to publish open access, and SMNS Dean Alice Suroviec has asked faculty to check with Memorial Library before requesting financial support from the school. A few faculty in other disciplines have reached out, either for general information or to inquire about funding support. Several faculty members have been successful in obtaining discounts or fee waivers based on lack of external funding, the inclusion of undergraduate co-authors, and/or the fact that many publishers consider Berry a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).
Memorial Library is part of the GALILEO/ACS Read and Publish agreement. Berry College-affiliated corresponding authors may publish their articles as open access under a CC BY license at no cost to them or the college. ACS deposits all open access articles to PubMed Central at issue. This agreement is fully compliant with Plan S, the open access initiative that requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.
ACS uses CCC RightsLink to manage approvals. Memorial Library's account is currently set to manual approvals, but automatic approvals can be activated. When a Berry corresponding author submits a manuscript to an ACS journal, RightsLink notifies the account administrator that there is a match with our billing profile. When the author(s) are notified of acceptance they are given the opportunity through the RightsLink platform to request funding from the library for applicable APC charges. If they do request funding, the administrator has the opportunity to approve or deny the request.
Memorial Library is part of the GALILEO/Cambridge University Press Transformative Agreement. Berry College-affiliated corresponding authors have unlimited open access publishing at no additional cost. This agreement is fully compliant with Plan S, the open access initiative that requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms. **Please note that eligibility to publish under this agreement is based on the corresponding author’s institution, which is provided at manuscript submission, and is subject to the institution’s confirmation of eligibility.**
Cambridge uses CCC RightsLink to manage approvals. Memorial Library's account is currently set to manual approvals, but automatic approvals can be activated. When a Berry corresponding author submits a manuscript to a Cambridge journal, RightsLink notifies the account administrator that there is a match with our billing profile. When the author(s) are notified of acceptance they are given the opportunity through the RightsLink platform to request funding from the library for applicable APC charges. If they do request funding, the administrator has the opportunity to approve or deny the request.
The American Chemical Society and Cambridge University Press us CCC RightsLink to manage authors' requests for APC funding requests. Both publishers are currently set to automatically approve funding for any manuscript that is matched and submitted under those billing profiles.
Use the Funding Requests tab to review and act on your queue of funding requests for researchers affiliated with your institution. Use the Reports tab to search and download a report of the APC transactions associated with your account.
The url and password are in the E-Resource Logins tab on the Discovery, Collections, Systems channel on the Memorial Library Teams site.