Background

Open Access, Open Access Journals, & SFU Support for Open Access Publishing
 

SFU Library's Scholarly Publishing Services

Funding for Open Access Publishing
Through our Central Open Access Fund, the Library covers Article Processing Charges for unfunded authors who publish in Open Access journals.

Funding for Digitization
SFU Library's Digitization Fund covers costs associated with scanning, digitizing, and creating descriptive information of SFU scholarly materials.

SUMMIT - SFU Library's Institutional Repository
An openly accessible database containing the scholarly output of SFU's authors. SUMMIT is used to communicate the results of faculty and graduate research back to the community, or comply with funder requirements such as those from CIHR, Genome Canada, and others.

Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

• Host a journal with Open Journal Systems (OJS)
• Organize a conference using Open Conference Systems (OCS)
• Publish freely with Open Monograph Press (OMP)