University of Texas at Austin
AC-11: Open Access to Research

The Texas Data Repository is a platform for publishing and archiving small datasets (and other data products) created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions.

The Lens is not comprehensive, but it is very broad and does let you search by university affiliation.

In response to relevant recommendations from the UT Austin Task Force on the Future of UT Libraries commissioned by the Provost’s Office in 2018, the Provost has launched this working group on Sustainable Open Scholarship to address these and other impacts on the effectiveness of open scholarship at UT Austin.
Goals and Objectives

To engage campus in the development and articulation of strategies for how the University of Texas Libraries can transform access to information resources in support of the educational and research missions of The University of Texas at Austin.

- Develop an open access policy that reflects the university’s commitment to advance open sustainable scholarship practices for review and approval by the Faculty Council;
- Engage researchers to develop campus-wide strategies to support access, use, and curation of primary research data based on FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable);
- Articulate strategies that accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education.
- Explore existing frameworks/models/MoUs of negotiations with publishers to support or develop a set of guiding principles for negotiating UT’s contracts that support open-access practices with scholarly publishers.

https://provost.utexas.edu/initiatives/sustainable-open-scholarship-working-group/

The UT Libraries participates in several open access publishing initiatives. More information regarding these initiatives, including funding priorities, is at https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/oamemberships/oamemb

Some of the initiatives funded include direct benefits to authors:

- Cambridge University Press: We have an agreement with Cambridge that allows all university authors to publish open access journal articles with no charge to the author.
- Luminos: 15% discount on the title publication fee.
- MDPI: 10% discount on APC.
- PeerJ: We’ve deposited money into an account with PeerJ. University authors can use those limited funds to pay their PeerJ APCs.
- PLOS Biology & PLOS Medicine: we are participating in the PLOS CAP program which means UT Austin corresponding authors won’t have to pay APCs for these two journals
- Portland Press: authors receive a discount on APC.
- Qualitative Data Repository (QDR): Our membership covers most curation deposit costs for university researchers.

Other open access memberships provide university support for more sustainable publishing models:

Ars Inveniendi Analytica
arXiv
Berghahn Open Anthro
BioOne Complete
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
DataCite
Demography
Directory of Open Access Journals
EngrXiv
Environmental Humanities
HathiTrust
MIT Direct to Open
Open Book Publishers
Open Library of the Humanities
ORCID
PhilPapers
Punctum Books
Reveal Digital - Diversity & Dissent
SciPost
SCOAP3
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)

UT Libraries support digital scholarship in many ways with dedicated staff and subject liaisons who are experts on methods of research and publication in their areas. This includes journal publication support through Open Journal Systems. And, we provide infrastructure support for dissemination and preservation through our online archive, Texas ScholarWorks.

https://www.lib.utexas.edu/research-help-support/scholarly-communication

Texas Digital Library is a membership organization with member libraries from across the state. It is housed at UT Austin Libraries physically and administratively. There are a number of OA journals hosted through TDL that come from UT-Austin.

https://www.tdl.org/journals/