An institutional repository is a type of digital repository focused on collecting, managing, and disseminating important digital content produced by the members of an institution like a university. The TAMU-CC repository (https://tamucc-ir.tdl.org/) is open to all members of the university community to contribute content for persistent long-term access and management. Management activities include preservation activities, application of metadata standards to promote discovery and access, and persistent links to content for use in citing and linking to works.
The TAMU-CC Repository collects and provides long term public access to the scholarly output of the students, staff, faculty, and researchers of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi in order to increase the exposure and impact of scholarship at TAMU-CC and to raise the profile of TAMU-CC scholarship on the World Wide Web. The repository is also the main digital dissemination platform for library special collections.
Users can post open access versions of their scholarship in the repository for online access by the public. The objective of including an open access version of faculty works in an institutional repository is to enable open versions of academic literature to be found, re-used, and have impact beyond what is possible if works are only available behind a paywall. Essentially, hosting published works in a repository makes them more accessible, which means works will be seen, read, and used by more users, expanding the reach of published works beyond who has access to the particular journal in which the work was published. The library can help users verify permissions and rights for posting scholarly works online. A persistent link for each item in the repository is available for use in linking to the work from personal and departmental web pages, CVs, and other documents.
Learn more about the TAMU-CC Repository. For published works, most publishers have policies on what versions of a work and at what point in time post-publication a work can be shared in a repository. For information please see: https://guides.library.tamucc.edu/TAMU-CC_Repository/sharing or contact scholarlycommunications@tamucc.edu
The Mary and Jeff Bell Library, the Division of Research and Innovation, and the Office of the Provost are proud to support Open Access (OA) through the Open Access Publication Fund. The purpose of the fund is to underwrite publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and books published in fully Open Access publications.
Through the Open Access Publication Fund, TAMU-CC joins many other public universities in their commitment to Open Access initiatives. Read more about the Open Access Publication Fund Goals.
FY 2023/2024 Funds |
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Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Status |
Total Funds |
Funding providers |
| Faculty and full-time researchers | $45,000 |
Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Division of Research & Innovation, Office of the Provost |
If you were able to answer yes to all the above questions, please apply. If you have questions, please contact scholarlycommunications@tamucc.edu. If you are ineligible for funds but still wish to publish Open Access, consider submitting a pre-print to the TAMU-CC Institutional Repository.
Increase access to research and scholarship produced by researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Support and encourage innovative models of scholarly publishing that take advantage of digital and networking technologies
Help cover costs for TAMU-CC faculty and researchers publishing materials to Open Access venues
The final published version of submitted works supported by the Open Access Publication fund will be deposited into TAMU-CC’s Institutional Repository. Faculty are encouraged to self-submit their work, both published and unpublished scholarly work. Find out more about the TAMU-CC Institutional Repository
Questions regarding the Open Access Publication Fund payments should be directed to the Bell Library’s Administration and Business Operations Office. General questions regarding the Fund may be emailed to the Scholarly Communication Librarian at: scholarlycommunications@tamucc.edu.
Eligible authors are current members of the faculty or full-time researchers at TAMU-CC. Applicants may include eligible coauthors in their application, please read Funding Caps and Coauthor Distribution for further information.
Beginning FY21-22, we are requiring that applying authors submit their ORCID id. If you do not already have one, it takes about 30 seconds. Learn more.
Beginning FY22-23, faculty may now apply for funding at the time that they submit their article to a journal, rather than at the time of acceptance. Additionally, faculty may only apply for funding once per quarter, and only if they have no other works pending acceptance for publication.
Beginning FY23-24, we are asking authors to search for the journal in which they would like to publish in reputable indexes or indexes appropriate based on discipline and provide this information at the time of application.
Eligible works include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books submitted for publication
after September 1, 2023. (For anything approved before September 1, 2023, please contact scholarlycommunications@tamucc.edu).
To be eligible, the publication venue must be fully Open Access. This means that the publisher must make their entire publication freely available online: all articles in a journal or chapters in a book are Open Access. “Hybrid” Open Access publication venues and publication venues with
delayed Open Access models are ineligible.
The Open Access Publication Fund is a limited resource intended to support Open Access publishing at TAMU-CC. Funding for publications that comply with the author and publication eligibility criteria will be distributed on a first come, first-served basis, according to the funding rules.
Approved funds may only be used to cover publication processing charges. Researchers are expected to first request Open Access funding for publication from their funding agencies, use IDC or startup, or access other available funds. If other funding sources are unavailable,
applications to the Open Access Publication Fund are welcome.
Eligible authors may receive a maximum of $3,000 per fiscal year.
Approved applications will receive a maximum payment of $3,000 to support the publication of the work.
Getting published is quite the accomplishment. It takes hard work to write something worth publishing, and getting something published is hard work itself. Often authors are too excited and relieved to read the fine print of whatever agreement the publisher sends them. However, knowing what you are signing is important in exercising your rights as the copyright holder. You may be asked to relinquish all copyright. Authors who are faced with a publication contract that seeks transfer of the copyright should not hesitate to negotiate new terms or at least to reserve rights to use their own work in future teaching and writing and publish their work in a repository or find a different publisher. There are resources that can help in making decisions about their copyrights.
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SPARC defines Open Access:
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
This can include journals, books, databases, etc. Traditional academic publishing makes accessing journal articles and books expensive and rather difficult to access. Authors who publish open access use their copyright to more equitable access to information for everyone around the world.
For authors publishing their work, publishing open access may mean that their work is deposited in an open access repository, or that they are publishing in a journal that offers open access to all of their articles, or to those articles where an author negotiates for their work to be open access. Learn more about Open Access.