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 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."
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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!"
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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!"
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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.
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Funding recipient: Lauren Mason, graduate student, Psychology
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:Â 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."
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Funding recipient: Nilay Vora, graduate student, Biomedical Engineering