Cornell University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The Cornell Library has a number of open access repositories which represent a connected web of opportunities for open access publication, depending on which entry point best serves the author.

Cornell Ecommons is a service of Cornell University Library that provides long-term access to a broad range of Cornell-related digital content of enduring value. This is the largest repository, for any study or multidisciplinary resource: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/

Scholarly@CornellLaw for legal publications, located here: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,823,127 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. https://arxiv.org/
arXiv was home to many open-source COVID19 studies during the global pandemic which facilitated transfer of knowledge to critical medical and applied scientists.

Cornell is a signatory for the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, a multi-institutional initiative in support of a sustainable transition to open access.

From its inception in 2010, the COAP program has contributed to publication and processing charges for more than 150 open access publications by more than 100 Cornell authors from more than 50 academic departments and programs on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

The Cornell Open Access Publishing (COAP) program also accepts applications from Cornell authors who are non-tenured faculty members, academic staff members, or students. Funding for articles that meet the COAP eligibility criteria is distributed on a first-come, first-served basis; all faculty, researchers, and Cornell community members are eligible to participate in the Open Access program via the funding initiative.

https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/collections/coap
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/openaccess/policies

(Note that COAP is occasionally temporarily suspended during resource staffing changes at the Cornell Library).

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Open Access Publishing: Policies and Perspectives (https://guides.library.cornell.edu/openaccess/policies)

The Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity
The COAP fund was established in the context of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, a multi-institutional initiative in support of a sustainable transition to open access, to which Cornell is a signatory. The universities participating in the Compact “recognize the crucial value of the services provided by scholarly publishers, the desirability of open access to the scholarly literature, and the need for a stable source of funding for publishers who choose to provide open access to their journals’ contents.”

The Cornell Open Access Publishing (COAP) fund underwrites reasonable publication charges for articles and books by Cornell authors who are non-tenured faculty members, academic staff members, or students, published in fee-based open access journals when other funding sources are not available.

From its inception in 2010, the COAP program has contributed to publication and processing charges for more than 150 open access publications by more than 100 Cornell authors from more than 50 academic departments and programs on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.(https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/collections/coap)

eCommons@Cornell
The eCommons Digital Repository is powered by DSpace and is open to anyone affiliated with Cornell University (faculty, staff, students, or groups/organizations) as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute materials in digital formats that may be useful for educational, scholarly, research or historical purposes. eCommons provides access to numerous open access journal hosting services.

Cornell librarians ensure all materials are registered to open access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals as a discovery tool. This service is provided as part of Cornell's participation in The Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity.