Temple University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

TUScholarShare (scholarshare.temple.edu) is a service to support the needs of the Temple University community around sharing, promoting, and archiving the wide range of scholarly works created in the course of research and teaching. Eligible content includes, but is not excluded to journal articles, pre-/post-prints, book chapters, reports, white papers, conference proceedings, teaching and learning materials, theses/ dissertations, and research data. The repository aims to make Temple scholarship freely available online to a global audience, with the goal of advancing knowledge and learning. TUScholarShare is a customized DSpace platform called Open Repository, which is hosted by Atmire.

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The Open Access Publishing Fund supports Temple researchers who would like to publish in an open access journal but do not have the funds to cover the article processing charge (APC).

The Libraries’ goal in starting the Open Access Publishing Fund is to promote new forms of scholarly communication. There are a number of high-quality open access publishers whose business model depends on the fees they collect from authors. Authors are increasingly interested in making their work available open access, as it helps them reach new and wider audiences. However, the costs involved can be a deterrent. We hope this Fund will help remove this financial barrier, encouraging authors to experiment with new and innovative publishing models.

The Open Access Publishing Fund is open to all current Temple faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and graduate students. Additional eligibility criteria can be found here.

The Fund covers up to 50% of current Temple faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and graduate students' portion of the APC, for a total of no more than $3,000. For example, if the APC is $2,000 and there are four authors, two of whom are from Temple, the authors can apply for $500 from the fund ($250 each).

Temple University Libraries partners with faculty, students, and the Temple community to publish scholarly, peer-reviewed open access journals at no cost. The Libraries use Open Journal Systems (OJS) for the management of the journals. OJS was created by the Public Knowledge Project. Each journal is assigned an ISSN and assigned article-level DOIs. Visit https://tuljournals.temple.edu/ to view the journals that are currently supported. More information can be found at https://library.temple.edu/services/journal-publishing

Updated Fall 2023

The additional document is a blog post, co-produced with the Temple University Libraries and the Office of Sustainability, "Temple University Support of Open for Climate Justice" as a part of Open Access Week 2022 which was the national theme for that year.