Archer Library is part of the OhioLINK academic library consortium. OhioLINK has negotiated read and publish agreements for its institutions’ authors with five different publishers. These agreements afford authors the opportunity to publish open access at no cost to the authors or additional cost to their institutions, in addition to providing access to a broad range of high-quality research articles from these publishers (OhioLINK, 2025).
Open access (OA) is a way to publish that makes content freely available to read with no subscription or access fees, as well as licensing the work to allow for reuse.
Journal publishers were traditionally compensated for the editorial and distribution work of providing scholarly articles through journal subscription fees. In order to make articles open, publishers can instead be compensated for their editorial services through an Article Publication Charge (APC), which varies by journal title (OhioLINK, 2025).
"Hybrid" means that the journal publishes articles that are available both by subscription and through open access. Fully open access journal titles accept only articles that will be published as open access.
Reference
Ohio Library and Information Network. (2025, August 5). OhioLINK Open Access for Authors. https://www.ohiolink.edu/content/open_access_authors