Open Access

Open access aligns with the Texas State University's mission as a public university, and offers a number of benefits to you, your coauthors, the scholarly community, and the public.

• Compliance: Some grants require open access publication of funded research findings.
• Exposure: Wider dissemination, higher visibility, and faster discovery of your research.
• Scholarly Impact: Higher citation rates than articles behind a paywall.
• Real-World Impact: Practitioners can apply your findings; your research can influence public policy.
• Public Access: Texas taxpayers, and the broader public, can access TXST research.
• Equity: Researchers in developing countries can access your work.

• Budget for open access publishing your grant funding application.
• Seek reputable and peer-reviewed journals in your discipline that are open access or offer open access options.
• Include your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version in the TXST Digital Repository.
  • Most publishers will allow sharing the AAM version in the institutional repository; You can also negotiate to include the final version.

• Share your work in the open TXST Digital Repository.
• For each item, there are viewable statistics and a permanent link for sharing broadly and citations.
• Depositing your research work increases visibility, citations, and the impact of your work.

• Copyright law grants authors/creators a set of exclusive rights over their works and the ability to transfer one or more of these rights to another party.
• Publishing agreements are negotiable and authors/creators may ensure rights to sharing and access of their work.