The UNL Libraries is committed to amplifying open, accessible, and inclusive knowledge systems. Publishing open access (OA) allows anyone to access and read your work - increasing its visibility and potential impact.
- Search for journals that don't charge fees through the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Share a copy of your publication in our repository the UNL Digital Commons.
- Publish an OA journal on the UNL Digital Commons.
- Apply for an Open Educational Resources seed grant or a course materials grant.
Open Access Publishing Agreements for UNL Authors
See our list of publishers with OA agreements and discounts.
Current students, staff, and faculty are covered by Open Access agreements.
Open Memberships and Partnerships
The Libraries helps make content open through memberships and support for scholarly-owned infrastructure.
arXiv
A free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Big Ten Open Books
Connects readers everywhere to fully accessible, trusted books from leading university presses.
Directory of Open Access Books
A community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community.
HathiTrust
The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications.
MIT Press D20
Harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship.
OAPEN
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.
Open Access Databases through UNL
Collections that have been made available to the public, free of charge, including books, articles, data, primary sources, and more.
Open Library of the Humanities
An award-winning open-access publisher of internationally leading academic scholarship.
PressBooks
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. Pressbooks delivers print-ready PDF files and ebook files optimized to look great on mobile devices. Content also easily embeds into Canvas.
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world.
SCOAP3
No cost to authors to publish. Fees are covered by a a partnership of over 3,000 libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations supporting open access publishing in key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics.
University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission
Fund to Mission works to transition the University of Michigan Press to an open access monograph publishing program.