University of Iowa
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Iowa Research Online (ISSN 2476-1680 (online)) preserves and provides access to the research and creative scholarship created by the University of Iowa's faculty, students, and staff. The research papers, theses, dissertations, books, conference presentations, journals, data and multimedia here represent Iowa's rich intellectual and cultural community.

Some departments have policies: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/oa-statement/

The institution discontinued its open access fund for individual authors in favor of entering into transformative agreements with publishers. More info: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=1220506&p=9051027 Research libraries are increasingly entering into transformative agreements (sometimes called read-and-publish or publish-and-read agreements) with academic publishers allow affiliated authors to publish open access without paying article processing charges (APCs). Under this model, libraries pay publishers for access to a journal’s full content, as well as the right to make their researchers’ work open access, under a single contract and fee. This allows authors to publish OA without paying APCs.

University of Iowa Libraries' Publications is supported by the University of Iowa Libraries. The Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio provides primary support for editors or current journal and for all back content. The titles on this site are all freely available. However, the licensing on them varies. Each journal may have their own policies, and in most cases the authors can choose whether to license their content with a Creative Commons license. In general, readers are free to download the content. Any other use, including distributing non-commercially, must be approved by the copyright holder. https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/