Scholarship is changing quickly in the digital world. UBC Library supports open access authors, editors and researchers at UBC. UBC Library’s commitment to open access extends to support memberships with a variety of open access journals and organizations, providing benefits to researchers at UBC.
- BioMed Central publishes 199 peer reviewed open access journals. UBC Library’s Supporters Membership provides a 15% discount on article submission for researchers at UBC to any of these journals.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a directory of 5052 open access scholarly journals.
- Hindawi publishes over 200 peer reviewed open access journals, such as Advances in Bioinformatics, Cholesterol, Neural Plasticity, and more. UBC Library’s institutional membership provides a 100% discount on article submission for researchers at UBC.
- Nucleic Acids Research is one of the top ten most influential journals in biology & medicine. UBC Library’s membership provides a 50% discount on article submission for researchers at UBC.
- Open Medicine is a peer reviewed, open access journal in the medical field.
- Public Library of Science journals are seven peer reviewed open access biomedical journals. UBC Library’s membership provides a 10% discount on article submission for researchers at UBC.
- Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is a coalition of academic and research libraries seeking to make scholarly communication more open and reduce the financial burden of traditional scholarly publishing on libraries.
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre also has links to many Open Access Resources.
See the Scholarly Communications @ UBC website for more information about scholarly communications, open access, open journal systems, and more.
