Faculty Services

Meet with a librarian for one-on-one or group faculty consultations to assist you with the use of library resources including our online databases.

Librarians can also help you: 

• Identify publications for a particular project
• Evaluate the peer review process and indexing of a journal
• Understand when and how to seek and obtain permission to reproduce images in publications
• Analyze and generate author and article metrics
• Understand and negotiate author agreements

Check out these publishing research guides: 

The Efficiency and Standards in Article Charges Initiative defines a transformative agreement as "an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which former subscription expenditures are repurposed to support open access publishing of the negotiating institutions' authors, thus transforming the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, gradually and definitively shifting from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services."

Currently, CSUDH is a part of three transformative agreements. Please see below for details and of each. This page will be updated regularly to include new agreements and to remove those that have expired.

The current CSU-Elsevier Transformative Read and Publish agreement ends December 31, 2027. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by the CSU
• The article must be accepted for publication into one of the included journals. Use this journal search tool to see if your journal is included
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2022 and December 31, 2027
• Approval is mediated by the University Library. You will be notified by email that your request to publish open access has been approved

The current CSU-American Chemical Society transformative read and publish agreement ends December 31, 2025. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by the CSU
• Includes 60+ hybrid journals published by ACS
• If the author has received grant funding towards publication, this funding must be exhausted before requesting funding support from this agreement
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2022 and December 31, 2025
• Approval is mediated by the University Library. You will be notified by email that your request to publish open access has been approved

CSUDH is part of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)-Wiley transformative read and publish agreement. In order to qualify for an APC waiver, articles must meet the following conditions:

• The corresponding author must be employed by CSUDH or another SCELC participating institution
• Article must be accepted for publication in an eligible Wiley fully OA or hybrid journal (please see list of eligible journals on SCELC guide)
• Articles must be accepted between 1 January 2024 and December 31, 2026
• Approval is mediated by SCELC and there is no cap on the number of publications approved.
• APC discounts will be provided for grant funded corresponding authors ($1000 of list price APC)
• APC waivers will be provided for unfunded corresponding authors
• If you would like more information about whether your article would qualify for a waiver in a particular Wiley journal, please contact Digital Initiatives Librarian Dana Ospina

The University Library provides services and software that enable CSUDH faculty, staff, and students to publish online open access journals. Journals are published using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal management and publishing system. OJS provides a professional online presence and can be used to manage some or all of the stages of the journal publishing process: submissions, peer review, the editorial process, online publishing, and indexing. Articles are licensed for reuse using a Creative Commons license.

The Digital Initiatives Librarian is available to consult during the planning process to provide initial training to editorial staff, basic technical support, and limited customization of the journal's appearance. Check out this guide for both potential and current journal managers and editors through all stages--from planning to publishing.

For more information about the benefits of publishing using OJS at CSUDH, contact Dana Ospina, Digital Initiatives Librarian (dospina@csudh.edu).