Scholarly Publishing

Many funders now require publications arising from funded research to be publicly available immediately at the time of publication. This can usually be accomplished by:

• publishing the article open access through the journal
• sharing a manuscript version of the article in a funder's repository like PubMed or an institutional repository like the Tufts Digital Library

To be sure that you're choosing a journal that will allow you meet your funder's requirements:

• Find the publication sharing policy for your funding agency
• See what open access options a journal has, and what the cost is
• Find your journal's policies about sharing manuscript versions of articles (usually a no-cost option, if you chose not to publish open access through the publisher)
  • Penn State has a list of journals that don't have an embargo to share a manuscript version. Publishing in these journals would allow you to meet funder requirements that require immediate open access by depositing an author accepted manuscript

Get in touch with us for assistance finding or interpreting funder requirements and evaluating if a journal is compliant with them.