The publications listed on this page have been published open access with the financial support of the Tisch Library Open Access Publishing Fund.
The fund covers open access publishing charges for authors in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering who want to publish their work open access but do not have other sources of funding to cover OA fees.
Visit the Open Access Publishing Fund page to learn more or to submit an application.
Academic year 2024-2025
We wanted the article to be accessible to practitioners and not just researchers, because we feel our findings are directly applicable to practice.
Funding recipient: Jessica Karch, lecturer, Chemistry
We (the coauthors and I) are hoping that the article can reach a wide audience. The article addresses the opioid epidemic and has several policy implications beyond Massachusetts.
Funding recipient: Sumeeta Srinivasan, Senior Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
We chose to publish our article open access to ensure that our research on affective forecasting errors is widely accessible to the global scientific community of Emotion and Psychology scholars, fostering greater dissemination and impact. Open access aligns with our commitment to open science, allowing researchers, practitioners, and the public to benefit from our findings without barriers.
Funding recipient: Prsni Patel, graduate student, Psychology
This article describes in detail the fabrication process for a novel microfluidic device designed by my group...We chose to publish this work as open access due to the immense potential impact of this device ranging from drug discovery to understanding bacterial infectivity to marine ecology -- we therefore want as many researchers in the community to have access to our device to promote new discoveries across these diverse fields.
Funding recipient: Jeffrey Guasto, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
I believe that open access publishing is important for scientists and for the public. Research is generally funded by people who do not always have access to the research products that are funded.
Funding recipient: Paul Plonski, Graduate student, Psychology
Funding recipient: Angelo Sassaroli, Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Open access publishing is the best way to ensure that my research has wide availability...I serve on the editorial board of an MDPI Journal and have seen first hand that their publications standards are high and their processing is efficient.
Funding recipient: Mark Cronin-Golomb, Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering
The evolution hypothesis of Cas9 domain expansion has been proposed for many years, however, it remains unknown whether domain acquisition could contribute to advantages to Cas9 and how to manipulate expansion to generate novel nucleases. In this study, we created a natural-evolution-like giant SpCas9 (GS-Cas9) by enlarging the REC domain of SpCas9 and demonstrated the enlarged Cas9 provides better performance in gene editing. This is the first direct evidence to support that REC domain played critical regulator roles in domain extension of adaptive function-evolution for Cas9. We believe publishing it through open access can make our research more impactful. We will also deposit the new gene constructs into Addgene which can distribute them to other researchers in and outside of US.
Funding recipient: Qiaobing Xu, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
I chose to publish OA so that my research can be freely available to other students and researchers regardless of institutional access. I hope that by choosing OA, I can help accelerate scientific discovery in the field of computer science and systems biology, and promotes equity in research.
Funding recipient: Ash Sze, graduate student, Computer Science
Our science should be accessible to anyone - in or out of academia. Science is for everyone. I also know the frustration of finding the exact reference I need and being unable to access it due to paywalls.
Funding recipient: Denyelle Kilgour, graduate student, Biology
We choose to publish open access as Open-access publishing is the enables sharing our knowledge and research to anyone who wishes to learn the applicability of deep learning in photoacoustic imaging, a new research direction in the field.
Funding recipient: Avijit Paul, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
I believe it is important for research to be accessible to the broadest possible audience, which can increase the reach and impact of our research.
Funding recipient: Bradley Pedro, graduate student, Biology
Academic year 2023-2024
"Open-access publishing is the spirit of scientific research, through sharing our knowledge and research to anyone who wishes to learn."
Funding recipient: Giles Blaney, post doc, Biomedical Engineering
Funding recipient: Foram Sanghavi, graduate student, Electrical Engineering
"I wrote this Mini Review because I was interested in learning more about ion modifiers for bone tissue regeneration. I think it is an essential modifier to create more accurate scaffolds in the future that can be ultimately used to help many patients. I want this review to be available for everybody to use and learn; hopefully they will be able to apply this knowledge to their own research."
Funding recipient: Yashas Basavarajappa, undergraduate student, Biomedical Engineering
"I chose to publish open access because everyone should have access to academic research without paying for the article."
Funding recipient: Cristianne Fernandez, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
"Bioinformatics is the top journal in my field; we want broad exposure for this work, as we think our tool will be broadly used."
Funding recipient: Lenore Cohen, Professor, Computer Science
"The journal is a 100% open access journal and my faculty co-author suggested me to publish this paper so that more people can have access to it. The topic discussed in this paper is rarely investigated previously in research and needs more attention from the field."
Funding recipient: Xihan Yang, graduate student, Child Study & Human Development
Funding recipient: Adam Eichenwald, graduate student, Biology
"Open access allows for greater outreach of science to people from different backgrounds. This can vastly increase the ability to drive scientific discovery worldwide."
Funding recipient: Nilay Vora, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
"Free access for all & excellent journal. Non-profit publishing by AAAS."
Funding recipient: Aaron Love, graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Funding recipient: Stefania Kapsetaki, graduate student, Biology
"We have a passion for self-driving cars and chose to write this article from a point of view of interest and expertise in a rapidly developing area. The paper is an extensive review of the autonomous vehicle industry's human factors strengths and weaknesses, with a literature review, analysis, recommendations, and proposed tool. This breadth of focus pointed us towards Frontiers as an opportunity to share a "Review," which is a unique opportunity. Additionally, our goal all along was to get this poignant information out on a platform where it could be useful in an extremely pivotal timeframe. Open access is the perfect way to do that."
Funding recipient: Kayli Battel, undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering
I believe that science accessibility and science communication is as critical as the research itself. Research in cellular agriculture offers potential breakthroughs in sustainable food sources, which should not be confined behind paywalls. I think it's important that this knowledge reaches not just the scientific community, but also everyday consumers interested in exploring alternative food options. I believe that publishing open access better propels the field and educates the public on sustainable living.
Funding recipient: Emily Lew, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
Funding recipient: Ursula Beattie, graduate student, Biology
I choose open source publication because it makes my research accessible to everyone, not just those who can afford expensive journals. This wider reach can lead to greater impact, more collaboration opportunities, and faster progress in my field.
Funding recipient: Chunmei Li, Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Academic year 2022-2023
Featured in the New York Times: When Fireflies Await a Night That Never Comes
Funding recipient: Avalon C.S. Owens, graduate student, Biology
"This study relates to breastfeeding in Ethiopia and our co-authors are based in Ethiopia; we find it unacceptable to publish global health research in journals where people in low- and middle-income countries lack free access to the content."
Funding recipient: Karen Kosinski, Senior Lecturer, Community Health
"To distribute our findings as broadly and as transparently as possible should be a fundamental goal shared by all researchers. Together, we can make it clear that scientific impact is not positively correlated with publication cost, journal exclusivity, or profits...Through the [Tisch] fund, students and faculty are supported in publishing their research outcomes, Tufts scholarship is enhanced, and the scientific community has greater access to data: it’s a winning situation all around!"
Article features 8 Tufts undergraduate authors.
Funding recipient: Hannah Gavin, Lecturer, Biology
"To distribute our findings as broadly and as transparently as possible should be a fundamental goal shared by all researchers. Together, we can make it clear that scientific impact is not positively correlated with publication cost, journal exclusivity, or profits...Through the [Tisch] fund, students and faculty are supported in publishing their research outcomes, Tufts scholarship is enhanced, and the scientific community has greater access to data: it’s a winning situation all around!"
Article features 8 Tufts undergraduate authors.
Funding recipient: Hannah Gavin, Lecturer, Biology
I chose to publish open access because it is essential for researchers to promote accessibility of the sciences. Furthermore, this article specifically is important to a broad audience as it discusses the potential to improve the way people learn and remember environments via navigation, a cognitive task that impacts not only scientists, but society at large.
Funding recipient: Lauren Mason, graduate student, Psychology
The work contained in this manuscript is an important step forward in the field for understanding how bacteria and other microbes are transported in porous environments. For example, this governs wide reaching processes from microbial ecosystems in soils and sediments that regulate chemical processes in the environment to infections in human tissues that cause disease. Because of the broad implications of our work for understanding the environmental and human health process, we want this fundamental, high impact result to be as freely and openly available to other researchers in related fields, especially those in less developed regions without journal access.
Funding recipient: Jeffrey Guasto, faculty member, Mechanical Engineering
I chose to publish open access because making our publication free and accessible has the potential of reaching an audience with an interest in carbon uptake in Colombian forests. It is important for us to make science available for everyone, and our work can be expanded by scholars, practitioners, and/or policymakers.
Funding recipient: Alejandro Calderon, graduate student, Biology
"Open access helps increase the equity in readership by removing access barriers for those who wish to read my article. In turn, this may help increase the impact of my work."
Funding recipient: Isaac Weinberg, graduate student, Biology
"This work is highly interdisciplinary and needs to reach a broader audience in different disciplines. Moreover the work focuses on simple low cost platforms for sensing and communication. An open access publication will therefore serve the purpose of reaching the broadest audience from the developing world."
Award recipient: Sameer Sonkusale, faculty member, Electrical Engineering
"I want my research to be widely available to a wide audience regardless of the library they have access to. Open access is an essential part of building trust and understanding in science."
Funding recipient: Jessie Thuma, graduate student, Biology
"We think that the content of this paper is important for the advancement of the field and open access journals have more exposure than non open access journals."
Funding recipient: Angelo Sassaroli, Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
"We believe Communications Biology is an outstanding journal for this study and having the article be openly accessible should enable higher impact and reach to a broader more diverse scientific community. "
Funding recipient: Irene Georgakoudi, faculty member, Biomedical Engineering
Academic year 2021-2022
Funding recipient: Jeffrey Guasto, faculty member, Mechanical Engineering
Funding recipient: Cristianne Fernandez, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering
Funding recipient: Shreyas Kamath Kalasa Mohandas, graduate student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Funding recipient: Landry Kezebou, graduate student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Funding recipient: Thalia Porteny, post-doc, Community Health & Occupational Therapy
"Open access allows us to share our work broadly with not only researchers in our field but other researchers who may be working on technology that could benefit from our work. This can foster new collaborations and help bridge the gaps in innovations from various fields of study."
Funding recipient: Nilay Vora, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering