San Diego State University does not currently have a policy for institutional support for open-access publishing. The University Library has made it a priority to support Open Access publishing on campus by entering into "Read & Publish" agreements with publishers. Under these agreements, the library subscribes to a journal/article package from a publisher and pays an increment above the base subscription fee in order to allow our researchers to publish articles in Gold Open Access and/or in Hybrid Open Access journals either without having to pay Article Processing Charges, a fee many OA journal charge authors to publish their articles and provide perpetual Open Access, or to receive a heavy discount on the APC. Active Read and Publish agreements are listed below.
