Answered By: Winston Barham
Last Updated: Mar 27, 2026     Views: 292

The UVA Library does not fund article processing charges (APCs); however, the UVA Library and Virginia's academic library consortium (VIVA) have negotiated a number of publishing agreements: https://library.virginia.edu/teaching-and-writing/write  

There are other ways of making articles available open access for free, for example using the UVA Institutional Repository (Libra) or a similar open repository. Most publishers permit authors to post their final accepted manuscript (the version that reflects all the changes from peer review, but is not yet typeset and paginated) in an institutional repository like Libra, or in a disciplinary repository. 

Journal policies may be searched at https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk

Placing an author’s accepted manuscript into Libra will make the article findable by Google and other search engines, which help anyone without a subscription find access to free versions. Materials in Libra are also discoverable in Virgo.

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