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According to the posted eligibility criteria for the OAK Fund Program, the following criteria are expected to be met:
Eligible journals must:
- Provide free online access to all peer-reviewed articles they publish. Journals with a hybrid open-access model or delayed open-access model are not eligible.
- Be published by a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) OR by a publisher that adheres to the OASPA Code of Conduct.
- Have publicly available a standard article fee schedule.
- Have a policy to waive fees in cases of economic hardship (though some exceptions to this requirement may be allowed).
- Many, though not all, eligible journals will be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Eligible monographs must:
- Provide free online access to all scholarly monographs or book chapters they publish. Monographs with a hybrid open-access model or delayed open-access model are not eligible.
- Be published by a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or by a publisher that adheres to the OASPA Code of Conduct.
- Have publicly available a standard Open Access publishing fee schedule
- Have a policy to waive fees in cases of economic hardship (though some exceptions to this requirement may be allowed).
The Libraries checks the following resources when evaluating whether a given journal meets the criteria:
- Ulrich's Global Serials Directory, https://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com/
- Directory of Open Access Journals, http://www.doaj.org/
- Directory of Open Access Books, http://www.doabooks.org/
- OASPA members
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