Research Guides: Scholarly Communication: Library Support for Open Access

Library Investments

The library, independently and in cooperation with consortial partners, has made strategic investments in a number of external initiatives supporting open access infrastructure or publication of open access journals and books from reputable publishers.

Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched is an open access initiative that began as a funding mechanism to support open access book publication by university presses or other academic publishers.
MIT Press Direct to Open
Washington University Libraries pledged support for MIT’s D2O program which will open MIT’s complete list of scholarly books published in 2022, or about 90 books. Supporting libraries will also receive access to MIT’s backfile of about 2300 titles, if D2O support goals are reached.
DOAJ
As part of the Greater Western Academic Library Alliance, Washington University Libraries are a 2023 sustaining member of the Directory of Open Access Journals.