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Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries signs open access publishing agreement for university academic researchers

Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries signs open access publishing agreement for university academic researchers

Ļć½¶Ö±²„ researchers can now publish unlimited open access research articlesā€”without any current academic author feesā€”in five top scholarly journals supporting life sciences.

The expanded access is thanks to a new Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries licensing partnership agreement with The Company of Biologists, according to Associate Dean of Collection Management and Strategy Raymond Uzwyshyn.

Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries recently signed the agreement which will allow open access publishing in Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open.

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Acquisitions and Collection Development Cathy Austin said, ā€œThis means that Ļć½¶Ö±²„faculty researchers can publish an uncapped number of open access research articles in these journals without paying an article processing charge.ā€

ā€œThis is great since it will provide free scholarly open access publications for other researchers at no cost to Ļć½¶Ö±²„authors,ā€ Austin added.

The agreement also provides Ļć½¶Ö±²„scholars and researchers unlimited access to the journals and their archives. For more information, please contact Austin at caustin@library.msstate.edu.