Scholarly Publishing

Promoting faculty scholarship to a global audience by creating a more sustainable and equitable academic publishing system.

The Trinity College Digital Repository is 10 Years Old! Celebrating faculty scholarship by the numbers:

Why Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is an increasingly common end goal among academic publishing stakeholders and the benefits for Trinity authors who publish as OA are significant:

• OA works are more easily discoverable and cited more often, which raises the visibility of Trinity scholarship.
• Ensuring that Trinity research is widely accessible fits with Trinity’s focus on global engagement and commitment to equity.
• Our collective investment in sustainable academic publishing models today will ensure that tomorrow’s generation of Trinity students will continue to have access to the information they need. 
• Open Access allows faculty to connect and collaborate with their colleagues more quickly and easily, increasing their effectiveness and scholarly impact. 

How to publish work as Open Access and unlock your scholarship

New! Trinity’s Library supports Open Access publishing initiatives in a variety of ways. We also subscribe to some publishers that will waive the APC for Trinity Authors. Find out more. 

Best

• Submit your work to a Diamond Open Access journal. Diamond OA does not require Authors to pay to publish, nor does it require subscriptions to read, resulting in a more equitable publishing system. These journals are usually independently funded through non-profits, libraries, academic societies, and other investors. Go to doaj.org and limit your search to journals that do not charge an APC to find a short list of Diamond OA publications. 

Better

• Publish your work for free in the journal of your choice, but deposit a post-print (author’s manuscript) copy in the Trinity College Digital Repository, which provides free web access beyond Trinity. Many journal publishers allow authors to upload a post-peer review manuscript copy of an article to their institution’s repository. Colleges and universities that have passed Open Access “policies” or “resolutions” typically promote this method of Open Access publishing. You can look up your publisher’s policies by searching the Sherpa/Romeo database.  then submit your work directly to the Digital Repository.

Acceptable

• Submit the work to an Open Access journal (Gold OA). Often, you will need to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish the article. Use the Sherpa/Romeo database or the Directory of Open Access Journals to find reputable, peer-reviewed Open-Access publishers for your discipline.

Submitting the work to a hybrid journal will make your work OA, but it results in additional expenses for academic institutions. Many journals from the big publishers are hybrid, in that content within journal volumes can be either paywalled or OA depending on whether authors have paid an APC. A journal with both author-funded OA and paywalled content means the same institution can pay twice for journal articles. This model is the least sustainable.

You can also try to negotiate with your journal or monograph  publisher upfront to retain your copyrights. Read more about this from SPARC and use their Author Addendum with publishers.

Learn more

Review this bibliography of selected readings on Open Access and some of the inherent equity issues in the financial models currently in use, particularly the author-pays model.

DEI in Scholarly Communication from University of California. A resource for exploring and taking action on DEI issues in scholarly publishing. 

Resources for publishing and discovering OA works:

Faculty publications recently added to the Digital Repository

Trinity’s Institutional Repository is a digital archive that showcases and provides access to scholarly and creative works by Trinity College community members. Works in the Repository are open to anyone on or off campus, resulting in increased readership and visibility.

• Australasian Lophothamnion J.Agardh aligns genetically with Pleonosporium Nägeli (Wrangeliaceae, Spongoclonieae): new species from the western Atlantic
  by Craig W. Schneider et al.
  During a genetic analysis of western Atlantic Wrangeliaceae J.Agardh, specimens closely related to the generitype of Lophothamnion J.Agardh fell into a clade including the generitype of the earlier described Pleonosporium Nägeli, causing us to subsume the former genus. Two new species are described, P. novae-angliae G.W.Saunders & C.W.Schneider, sp. nov. for specimens from southern New […]
• Reinstatement of Ceramothamnion H.Richards (1901), a replacement name for the newly described Stirkia (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta)
  by Michael J. Wynne et al.
• Correcting an historical oversight: Chondria atropurpurea Harvey (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) is present in the northeastern North American flora
  by Craig W. Schneider et al.
• Lectotypification of Iridaea lacera Postels & Ruprecht, basionym of the generitype of Kallymeniopsis Perestenko ex Skriptsova, Shibneva & Semenchenko (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta)
  by Craig W. Schneider et al.
• Character amenability of vector-valued algebras
  by Terje Hill et al.
  Let {Ax:x∈X} be a collection of complex Banach algebras indexed by the compact Hausdorff space X. We investigate the character amenability of certain algebras A of Ax-valued functions in relation to the character amenability of the Ax.
• Gravitationally induced Particle Resorption into the Vacuum: A General Solution to the Problem of Black Hole Collapse [pre-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman
  The process of gravitationally-induced particle creation (Hawking radiation), if it exists, necessitates, in accordance with general thermodynamic principles, a corresponding process of gravitationally-induced particle resorption into the vacuum. Although the former process occurs in the external vicinity of the Schwarzschild surface where matter density is relatively low, the latter process would be expected to occur […]
• Quantum stabilization of a relativistic degenerate star beyond the Chandrasekhar Mass limit [pre-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman
  In contrast to the widely held belief that a degenerate star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel will, if sufficiently massive, unremittingly collapse to a singularity in space (unless the contraction is prevented by some unknown process of quantum gravity acting at the scale of the Planck length), I present a heuristic argument, based on […]
• Dark matter as a Cosmic Bose-Einstein Condensate and possible Superfluid [pre-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman et al.
  Dark matter arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking of a neutral scalar field coupled to gravity comprises ultra low mass bosons with a Bose-Einstein condensation temperature far above the present background temperature. Assuming galactic halos to consist of a Bose-Einstein condensate of astronomical extent, we calculate the condensate coherence length, transition temperatures, mass distribution, and orbital […]
• Coherent Degenerate Dark Matter: A Galactic Superfluid? [pre-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman et al.
  Dark matter comprising a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) forms structures of the size of its coherence length, as determined by equilibrium between quantum pressure and gravitational attraction. This is also the core size of quantum vortices in a BEC superfluid. From the density and rotation curve of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) we estimate the particle mass, […]
• Quantum test of the distributions of composite physical measurements [pre-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman et al.
  Probability distribution functions and lowest statistical moments of composite measurements representable as products and quotients of independent normal variates are derived, and tested by means of the α and β branching decays of 212Bi. The exact composite distribution functions are non-Gaussian and provide correct uncertainty estimates and confidence intervals in cases where standard error propagation […]