Open Access

The Library encourages you make your publications available through Open Access if you can. We have programs available to support Gold and Green pathways to Open Access.

Publisher agreements

• The CSU and Elsevier have an agreement which includes Open Access publishing fees for Fresno State authors in Elsevier's hybrid journals through 2027. If you are corresponding author on a paper in one of these journals, you will have the option to choose Open Access at no cost to you. See more details here, and see a list of included journals here.
• The CSU and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have an agreement which allows corresponding authors from Fresno State to publish Open Access through 2026. See details on ACM Open, a list of publications included, and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Fresno State participates in MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program. Fresno State authors who publish into MDPI's Open Access journals receive reduced APCs.

Finding Open Access journals

If you need help finding Open Access journals in your field...

• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a reliable guide to reputable Open Access journals, and it can be searched by subject area.
• The Open Access Journal Finder searches DOAJ journals using your abstract to find journals that might be a good fit.
• SCImago Journal Rankings provide journal-level impact metrics, and can be searched by subject area. There is a filter to search only for Open Access journals.
• The Library's Finding Where to Publish guide has more guidance on finding the most appropriate places to submit your work.

ScholarWorks

ScholarWorks is the CSU's Open Access repository for research, scholarship, creative work, teaching materials, datasets, and student dissertations and theses. If you are publishing in a subscription journal and their self archiving or Green OA policy allows deposit in an institutional repository, you can contribute the appropriate version to ScholarWorks.

• If you have trouble finding or interpreting your publisher's self archiving or Green OA policy, librarians will be happy to help!
• Be sure to hold on to the submitted and accepted versions of your manuscripts, as these are often the versions that can be self archived!

See Information for ScholarWorks Contributors for more details.

How much of Fresno State's research and scholarship is available Open Access? One way to get an idea is to look at articles indexed in the Web of Science database. Of articles that involve Fresno State authors (the blue area), about half are Open Access (the gold area). A large part of the Open Access articles are associated with the ATLAS Collaboration (the gray area).