Scholarly Impact – Library News

Jan 30 2023

Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library receives Patent & Trademark Resource Center designation

Posted on January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 by Anne Bassett

Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library receives Patent & Trademark Resource Center designation
Initiative provides individual inventors access to additional resources from federal agency

The University of Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library is now part of a select group of higher education institutions across the country—and only one in Iowa—to be designated a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

The PTRC is a resource for those with personally-owned inventions, such as student inventors and inventors from the community. It offers individuals from the university and throughout the state the ability to tap into the rich services provided by the USPTO’s vast networks of experts on intellectual property, which includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. It also serves as a resource for University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) staff as they work to protect faculty inventions owned by the university.

“The Lichtenberger Engineering Library has an abundance of experience promoting and delivering information and instruction services to the campus community and public, which is an essential element of the mission of the UI Libraries and university,” says John Culshaw, Jack B. King university librarian. “We’re very pleased to now have this opportunity for our skilled and dedicated librarians to continue collaborating to serve individuals looking to develop something impactful.”

“We congratulate the Lichtenberger Engineering Library for undertaking this initiative and the USPTO looks forward to working together to extend these important opportunities to as many individuals as possible,” says Robert Berry, manager of the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The Lichtenberger Engineering Library offers a number of ways to learn more about intellectual property and how to access patent records, including one-on-one assistance, trainings, and workshops. It also collaborates with a number of campus partners such as the UIRF, which is part of the Office of the Vice President for Research; College of Engineering; John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC); Pomerantz Business Library; and others.

Some notable individual patents held by alumni include:

US 2370990 (Tumbling Device) invented by George Nissen (BSC ’37)—Inventor of the trampoline, which he built in his garage in 1936. Bachelor SC, Commerce and Science, 1937.
US 1814357A (Acoustic Device for Sound Pick-up) invented by Harry F. Olson (BE ‘24, MS ‘25, PHD physics ‘28, EE ‘32)—A pioneer and leading authority in acoustics and electronic sound recording, Olson developed magnetic tape recorders for sound and television, the electronic music synthesizer, and underwater sound equipment.

The Lichtenberger Engineering Library also maintains an active instructional schedule, which includes on-campus lectures and classes covering intellectual property topics as a part of its information literacy program. These sessions are available as for-credit classroom work as well as open to the public.

The UIRF works to obtain intellectual property protection on innovations created by researchers through their work at the university and partners with industry for the commercial development of new products and services. While the UIRF manages patent protection for university-owned inventions, until now there has been no resource on campus for those with personally-owned inventions. In addition, access to patent records can serve as an asset for university faculty conducting basic research—often scientific discoveries, especially those from industry, end up in published patent applications even if they are never published in traditional academic journals.

“UIRF is particularly excited that this resource is now available for our faculty start-up companies,” says Marie Kerbeshian, assistant vice president and executive director for the UIRF. “As these companies create their own intellectual property independent of the university, they are now able to seek advice that will help them develop a strong intellectual property portfolio.”

You can learn more about and access patents here. For more information about educational opportunities, potential partnerships, and more, please contact Kari Kozak, director of the Lichtenberger Engineering Library, at kari-kozak@uiowa.edu.

The library will hold an event to celebrate the designation on Tuesday, April 25, from 1 to 3 p.m. and more details will be shared when available.

Please note, the Lichtenberger Engineering Library is not a legal entity and a licensed lawyer should be consulted if you need legal assistance.

Dec 19 2022

Data Sharing: What are the Benefits?

Posted on December 19, 2022December 30, 2022 by Nancy Henke

Beginning in January 2023 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require data management and sharing plans for all awards that generate scientific data. Research Data Services at the University of Iowa Libraries has been supporting university researchers as they prepare for this change, with guidance on our website, informational workshops, and individual consultations.

With this new requirement, the NIH shows its strong support of data sharing, though the inevitable questions of “why?” and “what’s the point?” have been top of mind for many. So, what are the benefits of sharing data?

Research shows that data sharing has many advantages – for researchers, for the patients whose data is being shared, and for society more generally.

For researchers: A 2020 study published in PLOS ONE shows a significant advantage in citation numbers when data is shared in open access repositories. The study authors reviewed well over 500,000 articles published by PLOS and BMC and found up to 25.36% increase in citation counts when the associated data was fully open access – i.e., in a repository without restrictions on its use [1]. And sharing data also offers exciting opportunities for new research studies. For instance, analyzing old data with contemporary methods has led to novel “remixes,” such as a study that used weather reports in 19th century naval logbooks to model climate change, or one that analyzed text comments from patients in online forums to help clinical discovery [2].
For patients: Many have argued for the ethical obligation researchers have to make full use of clinical trial data, given that patients have donated their time and information in the pursuit of treatments and therapies [3]. Sharing clinical data widely could lead to the design of new trials, development of predictive models, and the creation of simulation tools [3]. Cancer researchers, specifically, have argued that because precision oncology is so heterogenous, no single research center can possibly produce enough data to adequately use models for prognosis and prediction. Data simply must be shared so there is enough of it to train the models and ultimately enhance patient outcomes [4].
For society at large: When those in developed nations with robust research infrastructure share their data openly, it allows those with limited resources – especially those in low-income countries – to use the data to investigate questions that are relevant to their own communities’ needs [2] [5]. Plus, there are major economic benefits to open data. A 2018 study by the European Commission found an estimated annual cost of €10.2 billion to the European economy when data is not shared [6]. The costs derive from inefficiency (especially wasted time), paying for extra licenses to access data, and storage costs.

Care must certainly be taken to minimize the risks of reidentification and other factors when sharing human subject data. Deidentification and sharing data through restricted access repositories are some of the ways in which this can be addressed.

In fact, participants in clinical trials are strong advocates for data sharing. A 2018 survey of participants indicated that they perceive the benefits of data sharing to outweigh the downfalls, and they noted that the most important advantage of data sharing was “making sure people’s participation in clinical trials leads to the most benefit possible” [7].

This belief in the value of data sharing actually extends beyond clinical trial participants. Pew Research found most Americans (57%) say they would trust research findings more if researchers made their data publicly available [8].

Ultimately, many stakeholders can expect to derive real benefits from the new NIH policy and increased data sharing, and researchers’ data management and sharing plans can lead to valuable contributions to the advancement of science and health outcomes.

If you’re tasked with writing your own data management and sharing plan, identifying a repository for sharing your data, or curating a dataset, Research Data Services can help. We have guidance on our website, offer workshops and trainings, do one-on-one consultations, and can answer your questions by email, as well.

References:

[1] Colavizza, G., Hrynaszkiewicz, I., Staden, I., Whitaker, K., and McGillivray, B. (2020). “The citation advantage of linking publications to research data,” PLOS ONE, vol. 15, no. 4, 2020 pp. 1–18, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230416.

[2] Voytek, B. (2016). “The virtuous cycle of a data ecosystem.” PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 12, no. 8, doi: 10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1005037

[3] Konkol, M., Nüst, D., and Goulier, L. (2020). “Publishing computational research – a review of infrastructures for reproducible and transparent scholarly communication,” Research Integrity and Peer Review, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 10, doi: 10.1186/s41073-020-00095-y.

[4] Vesteghem, C. et al. (2020). “Implementing the FAIR Data Principles in precision oncology: Review of supporting initiatives,” Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 936–945, doi: 10.1093/bib/bbz044.

[5] American Psychological Association (2015). “Data Sharing: Principles and Considerations for Policy Development.” https://www.apa.org/science/leadership/bsa/data-sharing-report

[6] PwC EU Services, Cost of not having FAIR research data. Cost-Benefit analysis for FAIR research data. 2018. doi: 10.2777/02999.

[7] Mello, M. M., Lieou, V., and Goodman S.N., (2018). “Clinical trial participants’ views of the risks and benefits of data sharing,” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 378, no. 23, pp. 2202–2211, doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1713258. 

[8] Funk, C., Hefferon, M., Kennedy, B., and Johnson, C. (2019) “Americans say open access to data and independent review inspire more trust in research findings,” Pew Research Center, https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/08/02/americans-say-open-access-to-data-and-independent-review-inspire-more-trust-in-research-findings/

Dec 15 2022

UI Libraries Announces New Institute of Physics Open Access Agreement

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Sara Scheib

The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce a new transformative read and publish agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP). The agreement, negotiated through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), ensures continued access to IOPscience and supports unlimited Open Access publishing in eligible IOP journals for University of Iowa authors without paying article processing charges (APCs).

The agreement takes effect on Jan. 1, 2023, and runs through Dec. 31, 2025. To qualify for the agreement, the article must be accepted in an eligible IOP journal within that timeframe and have a corresponding author from the University of Iowa or another participating institution.

Corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Iowa and use their institutional email address as part of the IOP publishing workflow. They will automatically be identified as eligible to publish open access without paying APCs. Authors will retain copyright and the article will be published under a CC-BY Creative Commons license.

The IOP agreement is one of a growing number of transformative agreements the UI Libraries participates in as part of its commitment to support Open Access. If you have any questions, please contact the Sciences Library or the Scholarly Impact Department.

Oct 24 2022

Celebrating Open Access Week and a new resource for UI scholars

Posted on October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 by Anne Bassett

Happy Open Access Week! We’re celebrating this year’s theme “Open for Climate Justice” with an Iowa Research Online featured collection of recent University of Iowa scholar-authored open access journal articles related to climate change.

We’re also officially launching our Open Scholarship Toolkit, which is a resource for UI scholars in every discipline to share the results of their research freely and openly with the public and the academic community.

Read on for more information about how we can help you or contact your liaison librarian for assistance. The UI Libraries supports models of open access publishing that are equitable for scholars and the general public, both at our institution and around the world. Our statement of Open Access Support provides more information about the resources and services we provide to make more UI scholarship open access. We also celebrate Open Access year-round by making it easier for scholars to make their work available Open Access.

Read on for more information about how we can help you or contact your liaison librarian for assistance.

Open Scholarship Roadshow

Want to learn more about Open Scholarship and all its forms? It’s easy. Request an Open Scholarship Roadshow presentation or discussion for your department or group by contacting Sara Scheib, director of Scholarly Impact, UI Libraries.

Transformative Agreements

You can publish Open Access for free! The UI Libraries has entered into several “transformative agreements” (also known as “read & publish agreements”) with publishers like the American Chemical Society, Cambridge University Press, Wiley, and others. Through these agreements, the library pays publishers for access to a journal’s full content, as well as the right to make their researchers’ work open access, under a single contract and fee. This allows authors to publish Open Access without paying for it themselves. Contact lib-impact@uiowa.edu or your liaison librarian for assistance.

Transformative Agreements

If you can’t publish in an Open Access journal, you can still make your work freely available by depositing your accepted manuscripts, pre-prints, research data and other work in the university’s institutional repository, Iowa Research Online. Publisher restrictions on versions and embargoes may apply, so please contact lib-ir@uiowa.edu or your liaison librarian for more information.

Jun 21 2022

Libraries support OA book publisher Punctum Books

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Sara Scheib

The University Libraries is pleased to announce it has joined Punctum Books Supporting Library Membership Program for three years. Punctum Books is a scholar-led, queer-led, and peer-reviewed academic book publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing. As a diamond open access (OA) publisher, all Punctum Books titles are openly available and they do not charge any author-facing fees.

The University Libraries support for Punctum Books will help to subsidize:

the publication of high-quality OA books in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, and Architecture & Design, with no publication fees ever imposed upon authors;
commitment and adherence to the “best practices” (as guided by librarians and the standards of academic communities) for editorial evaluation and oversight, interoperable metadata, cataloguing, indexing, discovery, dissemination, aggregation, and preservation of its OA books; and
the development and sustainable maintenance, in collaboration with other presses and research organizations, of open-source and community-owned infrastructure for OA books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This support is aligned with the Libraries Statement of OA Support and is one of many memberships and agreements undertaken to make more University of Iowa scholarship open access. If you have questions about the Libraries support for open access, please contact us at lib-impact@uiowa.edu.

May 31 2022

2023 OpenHawks grants to help students save on textbooks

Posted on May 31, 2022June 16, 2022 by Mahrya Burnett

University Libraries is pleased to announce another 12 OpenHawks grants for the development of open educational resources (OER). OpenHawks is a campus-wide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace or avoid high-cost textbooks with OERs for enhanced student success.

The cohort of projects, which are slated to be completed in 2023, will save UI students $167,688 in the first year alone. Removing cost barriers to course materials opens student access and positively impacts learning. The funded OER projects, which were selected through a competitive application process, will benefit students in a wide range of disciplines, including law, radiation oncology, communication science and disorders, language learning, mathematics, library and information science, pediatrics, and social work.

The next call for proposals will be in the spring of 2023. For more information, visit www.lib.uiowa.edu/openhawks.

Jared Stiles and Emily Heithoff, Radiology, OER Creation Grant

Localization & Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy

Stiles and Heithoff team will develop an OER textbook for radiation therapy that would replace the textbooks currently used in the program. The OER will be regularly updated to account for developments in the field and will include a number of multimedia activities developed in collaboration with other radiation therapy programs.

Sean Rodriguez, Margaret Strampe, Andrew Goldstein, Caroline Yu, Salma Dawoud, and David Ramirez, Ophthalmology, OER Creation Grant

EyeRounds Anki: An Openly Licensed Resource for Ophthalmology Education

The group will develop EyeRounds Anki, an OER based on a free flashcard program that uses a spaced repetition algorithm to enhance knowledge acquisition and retention over traditional study methods. The resource is meant to increase global access to a body of knowledge that is currently only available as expensive, multi-volume books.

Jason Rantanen, Stella Elias, Derek Muller, Caroline Sheerin, and Maya Steinitz, Law, OER Creation Grant

Rules and Laws for Civil Actions

Grantee will develop an OER supplement in Pressbooks containing rules and statutory laws related to civil litigation. This will replace one of the textbooks in the intro to civil procedure course and will be referenced by students throughout their legal studies.

Philip Combiths, Communication Sciences and Disorders, OER Creation Grant

A Software Tool for Phonological Analysis and Treatment Target Selection

This project is for further development of phonological analysis software and an accompanying manual for students in speech pathology. It would modernize the process that speech language pathologists use to analyze children’s speech patterns by using digital transcription rather than the manual process currently used.

Maricelle Pinto-Tomas and Mariana Ruiz Nascimento, Spanish and Portuguese, OER Creation Grant

Primeiros passos: Portuguese for Beginners

This project aims to replace the current Portuguese textbook with an OER. It will address the current book’s deficiencies, with a focus on incorporating social justice pedagogy and avoiding the outdated stereotypes. The book is intended to save students money, increase learner motivation, facilitate cultural learning, and has the ability to be adopted outside the university.

Isabel Darcy, Mathematics, OER Creation Grant

Interactive Jupyter Textbook for Differential Equations

Darcy will replace the current text and homework system with an OER textbook in Jupyter Notebooks. She and a colleague have developed most of the content, and the PI hopes to hire a student to compile it all into an interactive text.

Micah Bateman, Library and Information Science, Support Materials Grant

Introduction to Metadata through Dublin Core

Bateman will develop resources for beginning users of the metadata standard, Dublin Core. The project will equip future librarians with skills often used in community and university archives, as well as in the digital humanities.

Alexander Tuttle, Vanessa Curtis, Jeffrey Pettit, and Katherine Schultz, Pediatrics, OER Creation Grant

An Inpatient Pediatric Diabetes Management Resource

The project team will develop a resource on pediatric diabetes management for residents at UIHC. A preliminary version has already been developed on Pressbooks, and this grant would allow them to further develop it and publish it as an OER.

Olga Sokratova, Mathematics, OER Creation Grant

Graph Theory and Applications

This project will replace several commercial texts with an OER targeted to the needs of the course. Sokratova hopes that this resource will allow students to use their class time more efficiently and spend more time actually solving math problems.

Susana Nkurlu, Swahili, OER Creation Grant

Developing Swahili Reading Comprehension Textbook

Nkurlu will develop an OER to supplement Swahili language learning. The objective is to make sure students start with the common knowledge before getting into more complex structures. Grantee will match collected stories with relevant pictures for ease of message comprehension.

Gregory Shill, Law, Remixing Grant

Transportation Law & Policy

For this interdisciplinary project on transportation law and policy, Shill proposes an OER to replace several costly textbooks. The work will incorporate multimedia and archival materials and could be used in several different classes at UI.

Megan Gilster and Aislinn Conrad, Social Work, Course Redesign Grant

Open to Working with Organizations and Communities

This team will create an OER using existing openly licensed materials, new content, and library resources. From the application, “For our pedagogy, we expect the impact to be a succinct, robust set of OER materials and a high-quality, new course that employs active learning teaching techniques.”

Apr 11 2022

Spanish Language OER with Giovanni Zimotti

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Mahrya Burnett

Cover image for Salón de clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals

By Georgia Page, UI Libraries Student Specialist, Scholarly Impact, georgiab-page@uiowa.edu

In early March, UI Libraries celebrated Open Education Week in order to raise awareness about open educational resources (OER) and other open education practices. However, many students and faculty on campus are not yet familiar with the positive impact that OER has on students’ academic success, while also making education more accessible and affordable. To get a better understanding of what it means to “create” OER, I interviewed Dr. Giovanni Zimotti, head of the Spanish and Portuguese programs here at the university.

Zimotti, who is now working on his third OER project, talked about the process of creating OER, and how it has benefitted both students and educators within the Spanish program. When asking him how he decided to make open textbooks, he explained, “We didn’t know anything about writing a textbook, but we knew we wanted to write one. The ones that were available were not good enough for our classrooms. They were either really expensive – like $200 – or they were too easy for our students. We want a textbook for four semesters of Spanish and something that would be challenging. This didn’t exist, so we started to make it.”

But how does one even start making a textbook for four different levels from scratch? Zimotti explains that while he didn’t know for sure from the start, he was up for a challenge. “We created a small team, and decided to apply for another grant,” he explains. “Right now, a year later, we have 10 to 15 professors across the country peer-reviewing the textbook to make sure that it is of quality to be used in our classroom and classrooms in other states as well.”

Zimotti explains that over the past few years, he and a team have been working on creating a new textbook that could be utilized not only by students here at the University of Iowa but also across the world. When asked what part of this project most excited him, he says, “The most exciting part, and my main goal, is trying to get all textbooks to a really low cost. All of our students have to pay a lot of money for these textbooks, so my goal is to get the cost as close to zero as possible. If we can save our students hundreds of thousands of dollars in textbook fees, that’s my goal.”

While cost is one of the biggest issues for these textbooks, Zimotti explains that most language textbooks are also out-of-date, which is an issue for students and educators alike. “When we started creating the OER textbook, we started thinking about how to create localized content. Instead of having interviews with celebrities from 20 years ago, or a random piece of technology that is outdated. For this textbook, we tried to interview people that were real people in the community. We found Spanish speakers from different backgrounds, such as a person from West Liberty that run a dual-language program. He is from Mexico, he is on the school board, and he is an indigenous person. He was super interesting and brought a new perspective to the students.” This is just one example of the many folks that Zimotti and his team were able to interview and include in the new textbook, which will help to better immerse students in the reality of Spanish speaking culture, as well as making sure that students can directly relate with the scenarios and references within the text. As Zimotti explains, “This is not something you can just get from your average textbook.”

OER allows for a more inclusive, immersive, and accessible way to educate, and encourages students to be involved and invested in their success. While this project is just one of many here at UI, it will change the way that Spanish is taught not only at the University of Iowa but at universities across the country. Zimotti and his team’s new textbook will be available for use in Spanish classrooms at the University of Iowa and the University of Nebraska starting Spring of 2023.

If you are interested in receiving grant funding to use, adapt, or create your own OER, check out UI Libraries’ OpenHawks program. We are currently accepting proposals through April 29, 2022.

Feb 18 2022

Fair Use Week (February 21-25)

Posted on February 18, 2022February 20, 2022 by Mahrya Burnett

During the week of February 21, we celebrate Fair Dealing/Fair Use Week, which uplifts the Fair Use Doctrine and the educational and creative expression that it allows. Fair use of copyrighted information is a right that is guaranteed in the U.S. Code and allows us to use copyrighted material within the contexts of education, parody, accessibility, and reporting.

There are some misconceptions about fair use, however. Not every educational activity is covered under the doctrine, and some cases for fair use are stronger than others. There are four factors that must be considered when determining whether you are covered under fair use:

the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
the nature of the copyrighted work. Is it more factual or more creative?
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

In recent years, courts have determined that the four factors should not be weighted equally in all cases, and a “checklist” method of determining fair use cannot accurately be applied across different cases and different types of use. This means that each time you wish to use material under the Fair Use Doctrine, you should conduct a four-factor analysis and document your rationale. Below are some resources that can help you walk through the process of conducting an analysis for fair use.

Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors: This guide from Stanford Libraries walks you through how to conduct a fair use analysis.
More Information on Fair Use: This page from the U.S. Copyright Office provides information on fair use and how to conduct a fair use analysis.
Fair Use Evaluator: Use this tool to document your fair use analysis.
UI Libraries Copyright Guide: Learn more about fair use, author rights, seeking permissions, open licensing, and other topics.

Feb 13 2022

Love Data Week 2022: The perfect time to remember the importance of data

Posted on February 13, 2022February 17, 2022 by Anne Bassett

We’re celebrating International Love Data Week from February 14 – 18. This year’s theme is “Data for everyone,” and it’s a great time to reflect on the significance of data and how it can help expand research. For instance, how do you care for and share it? And where might you look to find similar data?

“Data” may represent a spectrum of meanings, origins, and uses for each person. Consider the differences and similarities between these data records for environmental PCB research, quantum chemistry, and human rights diplomacy rights diplomacy. For a researcher, the culture of practice in their domain may strongly influence how they care for and share their data, as may funder, publisher and institutional requirements.

Taking good care of data during research and making it available to peers and the wider world expands the impact that research can have. And even if data itself can’t be shared to protect human subjects, creating a record about the data in a repository enables others to find out about it, understand it, submit a request for it through a data use agreement, and cite it when they use it.

The Research Data Services Team at the UI Libraries is here to assist with creating data sharing plans, managing data during research projects, and publishing and preserving research data. In addition, the team collaborates with campus partners to assist with technical and policies compliance, data use agreements, and informatics and data analysis.

An article (Data-Driven Research, page 22) in the Winter 2022 issue of the Libraries’ quarterly publication, Bindings, explores a collaboration between the Iowa Superfund Research Program’s researchers, staff, and students and Data Services. It’s just one example of how a project and individual researchers are making their data available for everyone by utilizing available resources.

Do you have questions or looking for assistance and ideas? Contact lib-data@uiowa.edu.

To see all the events taking place around the world, visit Love Data Week 2022 – International Events.

By Brian Westra, data services manager

Feb 03 2022

Wiley Open Access Agreement

Posted on February 3, 2022December 16, 2022 by Sara Scheib

Important Update: All Wiley open access credits for 2022 have been used. UI authors will instead be offered a 10% discount on APCs. Information about an expanded Wiley open access agreement for 2023 and beyond will be announced as soon as possible. (12/16/2022)

University Libraries is excited to announce an open access (OA) agreement with Wiley. This agreement, negotiated through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), begins on February 1, 2022, and runs through December 31, 2022. Through this agreement, the University of Iowa receives 124 credits. Each credit allows one eligible article to be published open access in a Wiley hybrid journal at no cost to the author. Corresponding authors can choose to use a credit to make their article OA.

Eligible publications have a corresponding author from the University of Iowa, are primary research and review articles (which may include original articles, case studies, reviews, and short communications), and are accepted for publication in a Wiley hybrid journal between February 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022.
Choosing to make an article open access is part of the Wiley publishing workflow. Once your article has been accepted in a Wiley hybrid journal, you will see the option to make it OA in the Wiley Author Dashboard. If you choose to make your article OA, you will then be asked to indicate your affiliation with the University of Iowa, and your request will be submitted to the library for approval.
Requests to use credits are approved on a first-come, first-served basis. If or when we run out of credits, UI authors will be automatically eligible for a 10% discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) until December 31, 2022.

See the BTAA Wiley Open Access Agreement for more details. Please contact Sara Scheib if you have questions or need assistance.