WMU Research Guides: Open Access Publishing: Open Access at WMU

Open Access Publications at WMU

WMU Libraries faculty statement on the value of open access and our role in the process.

Publish and Read | Read and Publish Agreements
WMU Libraries have signed three Publish and Read agreements with two major scholarly journal publishers. Under these recent agreements, newly published articles by WMU researchers appearing in any of nearly 500 academic journals from Cambridge University Press, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and Karger will now be freely available to all readers under an Open Access model.
Publication of Papers and Exhibition of Creative Works grant program
These funds support Western Michigan University faculty in the publication of their papers and exhibition of their creative works through recognized media. In this context, “final preparation and publication of papers and exhibition”—or PPP&E—means activities occurring after the research or creative activity has been completed. This fund is administered in accordance with the WMU-AAUP Contract (Article 34). Applications for each fiscal year are due within 31 days of the end of the fiscal year. Maximum reimbursement for 2022-23 is $2,000.

Questions, comments, and statements or concern or support about Open Access can be sent to:

Edward Eckel, Scholarly Communications, Copyright, and Licensing Librarian

Michele Behr, Scholarly Communications and Open Educational Resources Librarian

Most OA agreements allow you the author to retain your copyright
Traditional journals own the copyright of your work, meaning you can’t even post the article on your website
Protect your author rights from non-OA journals

SPARC Author Addendum
The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons, established non-profit organizations that offer a range of copyright options for many different creative endeavors.
Creative Commons copyright licenses
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.