Open Access Week

The Libraries invite GMU authors to take advantage of potential discounts to publish their work as Open Access. Faculty and students are already benefiting from these arrangements, which were negotiated by VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium. Two colleagues who did so are:  

• Dr. Maryam Parsa, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering  

Article: A Brain-Inspired Approach for Malware Detection Using Sub-Semantic Hardware Features  

Proceedings: Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration 2023  

Arrangement: Association for Computing Machinery  

• Katherine Saylor, Graduate student, Environmental Science and Policy  

Article: '’The Moral of the Story Is…'”: Telling Your Environmental Research Story to Policymakers 

Journal: Environmental Research Letters  

Arrangement: Institute of Physics Publishing   

A second strategy is to publish in an Open Access journal managed by the Libraries’ Mason Publishing Group. For example, Professor Frederick J. Brigham and other authors, in the College of Education and Human Development, wrote “Are Parents Ready? A Factor Analysis Study for Inclusive Postsecondary Education.”  Their article was published in the Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, and you can find more information about it here.  

Interested in storing your Open Access work long-term? The Libraries encourage authors to deposit their dissertations, articles, and data into one of our repositories.  

Questions about Open Access publishing? Ask Emilie Algenio, Open Educational Resources and Scholarly Communications Librarian, E: ealgenio@gmu.edu, T: 703.993.2544.