Oxford University Press (OUP) and University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) have struck a two-year agreement granting University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) students open access to hundreds of OUP journals.
OUP is the largest university press in the world, publishing over 500 journals across a range of academic fields. The agreement also allows UPenn-affiliated authors to publish with open access in OUP’s hybrid and fully open journals without paying article processing charges.
According to the Royal Society, open access to published academic journals increases readership, citations, and accessibility to non-academics. OUP has described open access as a key part of their “mission to achieve the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research”, noting that open access articles have the greatest number of policy and patent document mentions, relative to volume of output, in comparison to other major academic publishers.
The University of Oxford also engages in similar “publisher deals” with presses around the world, enabling open access to articles in otherwise subscription-only journals for Oxford-affiliated researchers and students. Under these agreements with individual presses (e.g., SAGE, Taylor & Francis, and Cambridge University Press), Oxford departments pay publishing costs on behalf of their researchers.
OUP’s and the University’s partnerships with other academic presses and universities have also facilitated the growth of Oxford Academic, which brings together over 50,000 books and 500 journals on a single platform. The platform has expressed an intent to adapt to the changing landscape of academia, such as the introduction of an AI Discovery Assistant and the newly added capacity to gift limited-time access to journal articles.
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