Publishing your research in open access journals or monographs is a great way to increase the visibility of your work and to preserve it for future use and discovery.
Open access publications are made freely available for readers, charging no subscription fees to users or institutions. To cover publication costs, open access publishers sometimes charge author publication fees, or APCs, or receive subsidies, endowments, or sponsorships from institutions, governments, or philanthropic organizations.
The following support is available to current USC Columbia faculty, staff, and students.
It's important to select an open access publication that is the right fit for you both academically and financially. We recommend the use of these tools to locate an open access publisher for your works.
You retain the copyright to your work until you assign it to someone else. You are granted a bundle of exclusive rights: to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and modify your original work.
Frequently, authors sign agreements with publishers without realizing what rights they are giving up. It is up to you to decide whether you will surrender all of your rights, some of them, or none of them to a publisher. If you would like to use your work in any of the following ways, you should consider negotiating with your publisher before you sign your agreement. If you would like to:
You can investigate securing these Author Rights.