Rehabilitation Sciences-- 1.24.25: Home

University Libraries has a variety of services for faculty and resources!

Collections: journals, books, video, search tools.  Special collections.

Instruction visits, consultations with students and faculty

Technology spaces, devices, software, instruction, and consulting, Digital humanities.

Some highlights:

New York Times

Kanopy

Browzine

Illiad

New Repository will go live soon! 

New Sensory Spaces in Belk Library!

We'll also have an entirely new Integrated Library System, Alma, on July 1st.  We got our current system in 1994.  The main search interface on the library webpage will be different, no longer EBSCO Discovery.

New in 2025    Elsevier journals -- waivers for APCs for Open Access licenses in hybrid ScienceDirect journals.  Does not include gold journals or Cell and Clinics journals. 

Springer journals -- waivers for APCs for Open Access licenses in their Springer Hybrid journals (link goes to Google Sheet), but not in their Gold journals.  This also does not include the Nature or NPJ journals.

Wiley journals -- waivers for APCs for Open Access licenses

We have a Read and Publish deal for all Wiley journals.  Which means we have permanent rights to read all their journals and we get zero-cost Open Access licenses for articles that our authors publish. 

Here are Wiley's journals, but these pages are difficult to use. 

We continue this deal with Wiley through 2027.  You do have to be the corresponding author, and it has to be a research article or review of research (not book/software review).

Please see our Digital Scholarship and Initiatives page for a complete list of active Read and Publish Deals.

There are fewer no-cost journal article "slots," while globally, more researchers want to publish more.

How to pay for Open Access?  (There are OA journals that do not charge authors, although they might be less visible.)

How to not get burned by inadequate peer review?

Details and causes:

• Change and barriers in journal publishing. 
  • Funders requiring open access sooner.  Some publishers giving up on subscription models.  Illegal and non-compliant access.
  • Revenue from user information and from LLMs
• More journals are requiring payments by authors.  They have fewer choices that do not require authors to pay.
• New, growing journals with some inadequate or fraudulent peer review.  (Old journals that cannot find enough reviewers.)
• Growing preference and acceptance of author-pays Open Access.  Why? More citations and greater influence on practitioners and public.
• What about Green OA or author self-archiving?

What libraries are doing:

• Negotiating Read and Publish (aka Transformational) agreements, that ideally will take us to an affordable open access future, one day.
• Supporting Green open access, with repositories and advice.
• Advising authors about remaining zero-cost journals, which may include those in Read & Publish deals.
• Subscribe to Open, with many smaller publishers.  e.g., Annual Reviews, American Physiological Society

Two questions

We have transformative agreements with Wiley, Cambridge, Elsevier, and Springer and will consider others.  If these publishers transform to only Gold OA (author pays) journals, what happens to the approximately half million that we pay for subscriptions now?

What is an OA license worth?