Open Access

As a member of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, the Mines community is able to publish Open Access articles in participating Cambridge University Press journals at no charge. Please visit the Cambridge University Press page to learn more. 

The Arthur Lakes Library has a contract with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) to publish Open Access articles without needing to pay Article Processing Charges. Please visit the ACM Open Access page to learn more.

The Arthur Lakes Library has a contract with the Institute of Physics (IOP) to publish Open Access articles without needing to pay Article Processing Charges. Please visit the IOP Submission Guide to learn more.

IGI Global, a publisher specializing in Business & Management; Scientific, Technical, & Medical (STM); and Education, has partnered with Colorado School of Mines to encourage open access publishing among researchers and faculty. This partnership enables research to be freely accessible, increasing its potential citations, usage, and indexing. Faculty who publish in IGI Global's nearly 200 open access journals can receive a 5% discount on processing charges. The discount is applied after double-blind peer review and acceptance. Manuscripts can be submitted via IGI Global's eEditorial Discovery manuscript submission system using the IGI Global Portal.

The Arthur Lakes Library has a contract with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to publish Open Access articles without needing to pay Article Processing Charges. Please visit the RSC's Read & Publish page to learn more.