Levy Library: Celebrate Open Access Week with the Levy Library

Open Access Week is October 22-28, and to celebrate we?re highlighting some of the Open Access (OA) resources available through the Levy Library. Open Access is a new publishing model, where authors pay a fee when they submit to the journal and then accepted articles are published freely on the web.? Why publish Open Access?? Some studies have suggested that OA articles get cited more than equivalent traditionally published articles.? Check here for an open access article examining open access citation trends.?

Did you know that Mount Sinai is a BioMed Central supporting member?? This gives Mount Sinai authors at least a 15% discount on the article processing charge when publishing in any of BioMed Central's 212 journals, including, for example, BMC Medical Education, Genome Biology, BMC Medicine, BMC Systems Biology, Critical Care and Molecular Neurodegeneration.? And Mount Sinai authors are taking advantage of this membership - take a look at some of our recent publications.?

At the Levy Library we want you to have the access to as many resources as possible, so we list Open Access journals and publishers in our linking software.? That way, when you do research you?ll be linked directly to OA articles just like standard ones so that your research goes smoothly.? The library links to BioMed Central articles, the PLOS group of journals, hybrid and new OA journals from publishers like Elsevier, PubMed Central and the Directory of Open Access Journals, eLife and other OA resources such as the Wellcome Images, and many more.? Questions or comments?? As always, let us know at Ask A Librarian.

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