Open Access Publishing @ CUHK
Traditionally, institutions subscribe to journals with a subscription fee so that the institutional members can access journal content that would otherwise be behind a paywall. OA publishing allows anyone to access and re-use the journal content subject to license terms at no cost. To publish an OA article, authors usually need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to the publisher. With OA agreements between institutions and publishers, funds used for subscriptions are partially allocated for paying the APC on behalf of authors of the institution.
The CUHK Library has entered OA publishing agreements with various publishers and organizations. Eligible CUHK authors can publish their OA articles free of charge with the following publishers and organizations:
- American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
- Cambridge University Press
- Future Science Group: Future Science & Future Medicine
- Karger
- PLOS
- Portland Press
- Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)
Details of OA publishing are available on CUHK Library website.
For enquiries, please contact Research Support Team, CUHK Libraray at cco@lib.cuhk.edu.hk or 3943 9732