University of Pittsburgh
AC-11: Open Access to Research

D-Scholarship@Pitt is an institutional repository for the research output of the University of Pittsburgh. D-Scholarship@Pitt provides stable, long-term storage and ongoing maintenance for content contained within the repository. Materials are submitted directly by authors with an active University of Pittsburgh computer account. Submissions are restricted to scholarly research materials. Examples of items that this repository can accommodate include:
• Research papers, published or unpublished
• Conference papers and presentations
• Supporting multimedia (audio, video, images, etc.)
• Research data
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations

D-Scholarship@Pitt is designed to increase discovery of Pitt research by allowing indexing by Google and other major internet search engines, the Pennsylvania Digital Library, and PITTCat+.

The University of Pittsburgh does not require open access publication, but it is offered and advertised to every researcher at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pitt University Library System (ULS) Services for Open Access include:
• D-Scholarship@Pitt (see above), our repository for work open and discoverable no matter the publication outlet.
• ULS Subject Specialists who can help researchers find Open Access journals or publishers for their work.
• ULS fund to help with publication costs for Open Access publishers.
• Pitt Open Library Publishing - Pitt's Open Access journal publisher in the University Library System that publishes more than 40 scholarly, peer-reviewed online journals with partners from the Pitt community as well as scholars from around the world.
• Entire Pitt ULS website focused on Open Access @ Pitt and around the world: https://pitt.libguides.com/openaccess
• ULS Copyright and licensing expertise to help researchers with questions about author rights, contracts, reusability, and more.
• Policy development and advocacy, including school or departmental Open Access policy development, funder mandates, and Open Scholarship initiatives.

Reference: https://www.library.pitt.edu/open-access

The University of Pittsburgh's University Library System (ULS) offers an Open Access Author Fee Fund, with funds are available for faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and students. Funds cover the processing fees associated with publishing in open access journals, including publication fees and page charges.

Eligible publications must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (unless the journal is too new for DOAJ eligibility) OR be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. It must also have a publicly posted standard fee schedule.

As an added service, the ULS will deposit a copy of funded works in the University of Pittsburgh’s institutional repository, D-Scholarship@Pitt.

Reference: https://www.library.pitt.edu/open-access-author-fee-fund-policy

The University of Pittsburgh's University Library System (ULS) is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the Library Publishing Coalition. Pitt's ULS publishes more than 40 scholarly, peer-reviewed online journals with partners from the Pitt community as well as scholars from around the world. The full list of ULS Open Access journals is online here: https://library.pitt.edu/publications

Pitt's ULS also offers the Scholarly Exchange service, a hosting-only service using Open Journal Systems, for Open Access journals that prefer to publish on their own or that do not meet ULS selection criteria.

Reference: https://library.pitt.edu/e-journals