Scholarly Publishing

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

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.

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Pre-Print vs. Post-Print: What’s the Difference?

• Preprint: A preprint is the original version of the manuscript as it is submitted to a journal. Usually, these are .doc files with minimal formatting or typesetting.
• Postprint: A postprint is a manuscript that has gone through the peer review process, but has not yet been subjected to the final copyediting, formatting, and typesetting by the publisher. Usually, post-prints look like .doc files. Sometimes this version is referred to as the accepted manuscript version.
• Version of Record: The version of record, sometimes called the publisher’s version or final version, is the version that is published on the publisher’s website. It is professionally formatted and looks more professional than preprints or postprints. 

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.

• Alterations to the copulatory sequence in young adult male Sprague-Dawley rats administered a ketogenic diet [post-print]
  by Christina Tzianabos et al.
  Ketogenic diets (KDs) have shown therapeutic potential for a range of neuropsychiatric disorders; however, there is insufficient data regarding the behavioral impacts of KDs in healthy populations. Here, we examined the impact of a KD on sexual behavior in young adult male Sprague-Dawley rats maintained on either a KD or standard chow diet (SD). We […]
• Cross-Species Applications of Peptide Substrate Reporters to Quantitative Measurements of Kinase Activity
  by Mengqi Jonathan Fan et al.
  Peptide substrate reporters are short chains of amino acids designed to act as substrates for enzymes of interest. Combined with capillary electrophoresis and laser-induced fluorescence detection (CE-LIF), they are powerful molecular tools for quantitative measurements of enzyme activity even at the level of single cells. Although most peptide substrate reporters have been optimized for human […]
• A Ground-Breaking Railway: Is the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway a Game-Changer for Indonesia?
  by Xiangming Chen et al.
  With less than 25 countries owning high-speed rail services in the world, the development of the Jakarta-Bandung HSR reflects Indonesia’s aspiration to become a powerful middle-income country. Here is a recap of the history, concerns, challenges and benefits that marked this project.
• Inhibitory Control Training Improves Cold but Not Warm Cognition in Typically Developing Preschoolers.
  by Vahid Nejati et al.
  Inhibitory control, as a fundamental executive function, has been found to be associated with a range of cognitive processes. In this study, our objective was to enhance inhibitory control through a targeted training program and assess its impact on delay discounting and risky decision making. Thirty-two typically-developing children (age mean 6.89±0.32 years) were recruited in […]
• Among-individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails [post-print]
  by Benjamin J. Toscano et al.
  Prey behavioral response to predation risk drives a range of ecological and evolutionary processes. Key to these effects is the degree to which conspecifics exhibit consistent individual differences in their response to risk or instead follow a mean population-level pattern. Here, we employed the behavioral reaction norm framework to quantify among-individual variation in average predator […]
• Who Persists and Who Desists? A Prospective Study of Prescription Stimulant Misuse in College Graduates [post-print]
  by Laura Holt et al.
  Prescription stimulant misuse (PSM) has been studied extensively in college populations, but few studies have examined how PSM changes after graduation. We used a longitudinal design to follow individuals at risk for PSM two years after college graduation to document PSM prevalence, motives, and predictors of PSM persistence. Participants from two small, private colleges completed […]
• Emerging Adults' Experiences with E-Cigarette Cessation [post-print]
  by Laura Holt et al.
  Background: The use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) is one of the most common substance use behaviors in college students, yet most individuals show some interest in quitting. The current study added to the limited literature on ENDS cessation by examining readiness to quit and the use and perceived efficacy of ENDS cessation methods […]
• Public Investment, Private Investment, and Labor Productivity in Nepal: A Cointegration and VECM Analysis
  by Pranick Raj Chamlagai et al.
  The main objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of public and private investment on labor productivity in Nepal using time series data from 1991-2021. By employing the Zivot-Andrews single break unit root test and Johansen cointegration analysis, a long-run stable relationship is found among public investment, private investment, and labor productivity. A […]
• Attachment Representations and Emotions in Teaching as Antecedents to Teaching Styles in Higher Education
  by Jonathan Mattanah et al.
  The current study explored how relational antecedents and emotional experiences were associated with faculty-centered versus student-centered approaches to teaching in higher education. One hundred and forty-one faculty members from two institutions of higher education in the United States completed self-report surveys regarding an undergraduate course they were teaching that semester. Path analyses showed that faculty […]
• Correlating structural changes in thermoresponsive hydrogels to the optical response of embedded plasmonic nanoparticles
  by Kamila Zygadlo et al.
  Stimuli-responsive microgels, composed of small beads with soft, deformable polymer networks swollen through a combination of synthetic control over the polymer and its interaction with water, form a versatile platform for development of multifunctional and biocompatible sensors. The interfacial structural variation of such materials at a nanometer length scale is essential to their function, but […]