Open Access Information for Journals

Penn Press has a growing open-access program in journals and is the publisher of five Diamond open-access journals:  

• Foucault Studies (starting in 2025)
• Journal of Disaster Studies
• Manuscript Studies
• Observational Studies  
• Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad

We support these open-access models: 

• Platinum/Diamond Open Access (funded by a sponsor) 
• Gold Open Access. For individual authors who have open-access mandates, we accept an author-processing charge (APC) to free a single article. Please contact journals@pobox.upenn.edu to arrange payment or request a waiver. 
• Green Open Access. Our authors can post copies of their work on their personal websites, on noncommercial discipline-specific servers of preprints or postprints, and within noncommercial digital repositories of nonprofit institutions with which they are currently affiliated. For more information, please visit our page on self-archiving and digital repositories. 
• Select journals have open-access content as part of Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Program. This program opens current content without article processing charges if sales of Project MUSE’s collection reach a minimum sustainability threshold. Participating journals:
  
  • Change Over Time
  • Early American Studies
  • Eudora Welty Review
  • French Forum
  • Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development

Participation in the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
OACIP is a library-based crowdsourcing model to fund Platinum OA journals. Foucault Studies and Observational Studies have been accepted into this program for the next round of funding. Stakeholders’ investments will provide external copy-editing services and editorial office resources and will support the journal’s recent expansion from two issues per year to four.

Read more about the Foucault Studies funding opportunity.
Read more about the Observational Studies funding opportunity.

Authors 
Our Open Access policies are responsive to changes in current research policy and we are happy to talk with authors to ensure compliance with mandates. Our author agreements for open-access articles allow for content to be distributed under a Creative Commons license. Please see your author agreement for details.

For questions about Penn Press’ rights and permissions policy for open-access articles, please visit our Rights and Permissions page. 

If you have a question about Open Access journals at Penn Press, please contact Jocelyn Dawson, Director of Journals, at jmdawson@upenn.edu.