Toward scholarly openness | Iowa Now - The University of Iowa

"... In the last calendar year, more than 75 University of Iowa faculty members opted for a different route: Open Access. Open Access provides options that make scholarly literature freely available online to accelerate the pace of discovery and create a more equitable ecology for scholars to push ideas forward without traditional constraints. Today, there is a growing community of students, scholars, citizens, and policy makers pushing to make open access the norm of scholarly communication, rather than the alternative. Open Access Week (Oct. 21-27) marks a global opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. In support of Open Access publishers like the Public Library of Science, BioMed Central, and PeerJ, the university libraries and the UI Office of the Provost established a fund to help researchers pay for costs associated with Open Access publishing ..."