CWRU and KSL support researchers of all levels publishing open access (OA) through policies, publisher agreements, and access to expert staff.
Questions about anything on this page? Email ScholarlyComm@case.edu.
In March 2024, the Faculty Senate approved the Faculty OA policy. The faculty open access policy functions by: 1) granting from the faculty to CWRU permission to openly disseminate faculty-authored scholarly articles; and 2) reserving rights for CWRU faculty to use and share their scholarly articles. Faculty who are interested in participating in the policy should check out the .
: An OA scholarly repository
serves as CWRU’s institutional repository. An institutional repository is an online archive that provides access to the scholarly output of any given institution. This repository includes scholarly content, such as journal articles, conference papers, chapters, books, reports, and more, produced by faculty, staff, and students, as well as university sponsored journals and events. Scholarly Commons is an open access repository, meaning that content is freely available to anyone across the world. To submit your work to Scholarly Commons, use our .
Scholarly Commons is administered by the Kelvin Smith Library with support from the campus libraries and features contributions from schools, departments, centers, and institutes from across campus.
CWRU authors are able to publish open access at no cost in select journals through agreements with several publishers. These agreements are negotiated through specific libraries (KSL, CHSL, etc.), the entire campus, and OhioLink consortium. This LibGuide details our current , which includes:
- Cambridge journals
- Elsevier journals
- Punctum Books
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Springer Nature journals
- Wiley journals