Open Access

Institutional memberships:

• BioMed Central (BMC) Supporter Membership: 15% discount on article processing charges for BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals
• BMJ Case Reports: Our Fellowship membership allows faculty, staff and students to submit unlimited case reports for free. Please contact us at Ask A Librarian for the access code and instructions.

UMMS site license discounts:

• PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences): Discounted open access fee of $2,000
• Science Advances, the open access journal from AAAS: up to a 30% discount on article processing charges

The next time you have a manuscript ready, consider sending it to one of these open access journals.

• Retain the copyright for your work
• Unlimited readership
• Support open access

eScholarship@UMMS is a freely available digital archive and publishing system offering worldwide access to the research and scholarly work of the University of Massachusetts Medical School community.  The goal is to bring together the University's scholarly output, in full text whenever possible, in order to enhance its visibility and accessibility. eScholarship@UMMS is a service of the Lamar Soutter Library.  For more information about eScholarship@UMMS, see the FAQ and the eScholarship@UMMS Library Guide.

Make your own work open access by archiving your scholarship in eScholarship@UMMS!

Through eScholarship@UMMS, the Lamar Soutter Library can help departments publish their own open access journals or newsletters. The repository software was originally designed for electronic publishing and includes a peer-review and editorial management system. Currently the Library hosts open access electronic journals for the Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Radiology, the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and our own library science journal.  If you are considering starting an online open access journal, here are some helpful resources.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research, by Ellen S. More, head of the Office of Medical History and Archives of the UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library, and Professor of Psychiatry, has been published as an open access eBook through eScholarship@UMMS.

The Lamar Soutter Library, through its membership in the Boston Library Consortium, participates in the Open Content Alliance, a collaborative effort to build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material.  The Library has contributed 286 classic rare medical books to this initiative which are available via the Internet Archive website.  These digitized texts are also included in the Medical Heritage Library (MHL)’s holdings in the Internet Archive.