Scholarly Communications

What Can We Do For You?

The Associate College Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications is here to educate faculty, staff and students about open access and other scholarly publishing issues as well as promoting and supporting open access scholarship on campus.

The Library Can Assist You With:

• Understanding your author rights.
• Explore the benefits of Open Access publishing and the use of Open Educational Resources.
• Increase the viability of your non-traditionally published scholarship.

Bates College Library's Support for Open Access Publishing:

• SPARC institutional membership. "The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education."
• Open Education Network institutional membership. This network promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks. 
• Open Library of Humanities institutional membership. This organization publishes several humanities focused journals that have no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). 
• Luminos institutional membership. Receive a 10% discount on Title Publication Fees.
• MDPI Institutional Open Access Program. Receive a 10% discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs).
• Open Book Publishers institutional membership. Receive free digital editions, discounted on print copies and discount on setting up customized coursepacks.