Loyola Marymount University
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Yes, Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School [the Repository] is an initiative of the William H. Hannon Library and the William M. Rains Library. The repository serves institutional interests by collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating faculty and student scholarship and creative works in a digital, open-access environment. This initiative is consistent with the library’s archival role and responsibility in preserving publications and other artifacts documenting the university’s history and the activities of the LMU community. For more information, https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/about.html.

Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School is an initiative of the William H. Hannon Library and the William M. Rains Library. The repository serves faculty and institutional interests by collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating faculty scholarship and creative works in a digital, open-access environment. This initiative is consistent with the library’s archival role and responsibility in preserving publications and other artifacts documenting the university’s history and the activities of its faculty, students, staff, and administrators.

The Library promotes open access publication, which removes price barriers (subscription or other fees) and permission barriers (copyright and licensing restrictions)
from the accessibility of information and scholarship. Priority support will be given for journals that are open access immediately upon publication and follow peer review procedures.

Any LMU corresponding author who wishes to publish open access in all 79 subscription-based and fully open access ACS journal can do so through a discounted APC (article processing charge) of $3,000. Those who do not have research funds to pay the discounted APC can request full funding from SCELC.

If an author has grant funding for open access publishing, authors receive a discounted $3,000 Open Access Article Publication Charge. If the author does not have grant funding for the APC, the author can still choose to publish open access. They will be asked if they have research funds to pay for the APC, they should select “seek funding” which will route the request to the SCELC subscription pool.

William H. Hannon Library uses Digital Commons to assist faculty and researchers publish and maintain peer-reviewed open access journals. We offer the service and system for free and provide troubleshooting help. However, it is up to the faculty to staff/edit the journals. To learn more, https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/peer_review_list.html.