Open Access Information for Journals

Open Access policies for journals published by the University of Pennsylvania Press are guided by the needs of individual journals, funder requirements, and discipline-based norms. The Press supports multiple modes of Open Access including those below: 

  • 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.

  • Gold Open Access. For individual authors who have open-access mandates, please contact Jocelyn Dawson, Director of Journals, at jmdawson@upenn.edu to see if the journal in which you wish to publish accepts an author-processing charge (APC) or waiver to free a single article. Our waiver guidelines allow authors from countries classified as Group A or B by Research4Life, to publish their article free of charge if their funding body requires it and the Green Open Access option is insufficient.

Authors. Open Access policies vary by journal. Guidelines developed by Penn Press are responsive to changes in current research policy and we are happy to talk with authors to ensure compliance with mandates. Please see your author agreement and our Reusing Your Content page 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