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Open access (OA) publishing and more

Learn about what Open Access (OA) is, how to publish OA, funding agency OA requirements alongside article processing charges (APCs), discounts and waivers. Learn about author rights, bibliometrics and impact, as well as open educational resources in our related guides.

 

Learn about OA publishing

Understanding the basics

What is open access?

Pathways toward OA publishing

Spectrum: Concordia's research repository

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

More on OA (a couple key resources)

Learn more

How to publish OA

Learn how to benefit from OA publishing.

Finding the journal that is right for you

Evaluating the journals/publishers on your list

What to avoid

Learn more

Funding agencies

Know about funding agency requirements

FRQ OA Policy

Tri-Agency OA Policy

Learn more

Institutional memberships and discounts for Concordia authors

APC waivers and discounts

Concordia University participates consortial as well as non-consortial agreements on a multi-year basis. 

Learn more

Finding OA Content

Find OA content (search engines, repositories, directories)

Find existing OER and media for OER (multimedia, images, video, sound)

Learn more

Related Library Guides

Learn about copyright and open

Author rights and open use

Know your author rights

Learn about works accessible through open use

 

Open educational resources at Concordia

Open textbooks

Apply for open textbook grants

Learn about existing open textbook projects

 

Bibliometrics and research impact

Understand the limits of journal-based metrics

Learn about bibliometrics and research impact broadly

Concordia University has signed DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, to improve how research is assessed. Learn more about research impact and open.

 

Concordia University Library Supports "Open"

Institutional repository

Discover Concordia theses and open-access research in Spectrum, Concordia's institutional repository. Concordia researchers and faculty members can self-archive their research here.
Spectrum

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Concordia's OER program supports the integration of open textbooks in Concordia courses.
Learn about grants to adopt, customize, and create OER

Concordia University Press (CUP)

CUP is a non-profit academic publisher of peer-reviewed books. Each publication consists of a cost-free open-access e-book and for-purchase print copy.
Concordia University Press

Sharing your research data

Concordia supports open research data through the Concordia University Dataverse (Borealis) and other data repositories.
Learn about sharing and finding open data

Article processing charge (APC) discounts

Find out about APCs, institutional memberships and APC discounts for Concordia authors publishing in journals, and funding agencies' OA requirements.
APC discounts

Open at Concordia was developed by Rachel Harris in collaboration with subject librarian colleagues at Concordia University Library and the Open Science Working Group. Psychology subject librarian Melissa Rivosecchi modelled the guide's first discipline-specific page in consultation with Harris and OSWG co-lead Nicolás Alessandroni.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this guide is licenced under a CC BY 4.0. International licence. Icons by The Noun Project.

Open at Concordia was developed by Rachel Harris in collaboration with subject librarian colleagues at Concordia University Library and the Open Science Working Group. Psychology subject librarian Melissa Rivosecchi modelled the guide's first discipline-specific page in consultation with Harris and OSWG co-lead Nicolás Alessandroni.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this guide is licenced under a CC BY 4.0. International licence. Icons by The Noun Project.

 
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