Texas Tech University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

ThinkTech is an online publishing and archival service for the Texas Tech University community that scholars may use to distribute and archive their scholarly works with no limitations on content or format. ThinkTech also provides access to materials that traditional publications cannot.

Texas Tech University is a member of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The Libraries require journals to be open access. “All journals supported by the TTU Libraries must be openly available to the public and have open licensing which meets the full requirements of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, such as Creative Commons. Individual licenses may be left up to the editors and/or authors of each journal.” Policies - Open Access Journals https://guides.library.ttu.edu/oajournals/policies
Current SPARC Members - SPARC https://sparcopen.org/who-we-are/members/

The Open Access Publication Initiative is funded by the Office of Research and Innovation and is intended to help increase the research and publication profile of Texas Tech faculty. The funding is intended to help authors defray the costs of open access publication fees and expedite the dissemination of research findings. Generally, awards will be granted on a first-come, first served basis but priority will be given to faculty who have not received funding from the Open Access Publication Initiative in the past three years. Funding is limited to up to $1,000 per publication, per faculty member, per academic year. Faculty members may apply for an unlimited number of awards but may only receive up to $1,000 per academic year. If the costs associate with open access publication exceed $1,000, faculty are encouraged to seek funding from their department and/or college.

TTU Libraries offers editorial, technical, and publisher services for local open-access journals. The journals are hosted by the Texas Digital Library.