Open Access for Authors

What is OhioLINK?

OhioLINK, part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, is Ohio’s academic library consortium. Easy, fast access to a vast amount of scholarly material has made Ohio’s higher ed library system the envy of academics across the country and OhioLINK one of the most respected library consortia.

If you are looking for an article or book, chances are that you can get it through OhioLINK. OhioLINK cost-effectively acquires and maintains shared electronic library resources for its members--more than 37 million digital journal articles, more than 241,000 electronic books, and more than 100 databases. It also funds and manages Ohio’s inter-library loan program from a shared catalog of 38 million books and printed items.

OhioLINK has negotiated five read and publish agreements for its institutions’ authors. These publishing agreements allow authors to publish open access at no cost to the authors or additional cost to their institutions, in addition to providing access to a broad range of high-quality research articles from these publishers.

This page serves as a portal to make these initiatives more easily findable, with FAQ pages for each of its read and publish agreements with information for authors, no password needed.  Your institution’s library would be happy to provide more information about what is available to you.

Open Access Agreement Information for Authors

Cambridge Journals OA Publishing: for Authors

APC-free open access publishing in over 400 hybrid and fully open access journals in a wide variety of subjects, including social sciences and humanities, from Cambridge University Press.

Elsevier Hybrid OA for Authors

APC-free open access publishing in over 1,800 hybrid journals across a wide variety of subjects, especially STEM, published by Elsevier.

IOP Journals OA Publishing: Information for Authors

APC-free open access publishing in over 100 hybrid and fully open access journals in physics and STEM from Institute of Physics Publishing.

Springer Hybrid OA for Authors

APC-free open access publishing in over 2,000 hybrid journals across a wide variety of subjects, especially STEM, published by Springer Nature.

Wiley OA Publishing: for Authors

APC-free open access publishing in over 1,800 hybrid and fully open access journals across a wide variety of subjects, especially STEM, published by Wiley.