Compliance with Funder Mandates for Open Access

For authors seeking to publish their research in Genome Research  

Genome Research is fully compliant with all known requirements for the publishing of research funded by most government and private organizations. Genome Research complies with the rules and timetable outlined in the most recent guidance for Plan S by the cOAlition S organization

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, the nonprofit publisher of Genome Research, is part of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a nonprofit research institution in the fields of molecular and cellular biology. As part of its role in the scientific community, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (along with CSHL Press) are in regular discussion with major funders and regulatory groups to advocate for Open Access publishing and to ensure that authors are always able to publish openly in its research journals.

CSHL Press encourages all authors to review policies appropriate to their research publication plans via the links below. Librarians, funders, and institutional administrators are also encouraged to join CSHL Press in supporting various initiatives to help further Open Access research publication including participating in our transformative journal offerings and joining organizations such as Open Access Switchboard to enable the effective communication of key OA publication data between funders, authors, institutions, and publishers.

Helpful Links

1.  Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator

https://journalcheckertool.org

This tool allows an author to enter the name of a funder, an institution, and the journal to which they plan to submit an article, and checks if this combination of funder, institution, and journal offers compliance with Plan S.

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2.  Open Access Switchboard

https://www.oaswitchboard.org/

An independent intermediary, connecting parties and systems and streamlining communication and the neutral exchange of OA-related publication-level information to support fulfillment of OA publication-level arrangements

Short video animation: OA Switchboard Matching Publication Costs with Publication Funds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vgFf1oUZo

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3.   CSHL Press Transformational Agreements for Libraries and Research Institutions

A Transformative Model for High-Quality Open Access Publishing in the Biological Sciences

https://www.cshl.edu/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-press/transformative-agreements/