Open Journals @ Queen’s uses Open Journal Systems (OJS)—a professional journal publishing system—and is a service provided by the library for Queen's researchers and scholars wishing to publish an online open-access journal.

The Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications requires grant recipients awarded funding wholly or in part by CIHR*, NSERC and SSHRC after May 1, 2015 to make their peer-reviewed journal publications freely accessible online within 12 months o

About Open Access

• Open Access Directory: a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community.
• Global Open Access Portal: presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

Find Open Access Content 

Overdue items and fines

Overdue notices are sent as a courtesy to remind borrowers of a missed due date. The overdue notice does not absolve a borrower of responsibility to return or renew materials. For Queen’s students, faculty and staff, the email address used for all Library notices is the patron’s Queens’s NetID.

We charge overdue fines for Recalled items and Reserves

The Open Access movement is growing in momentum both nationally and internationally. It is increasingly recognized that the value, use and application of intellectual works increases the more broadly they are available to be considered, shared, and used by others both within the research community, industry and society as a whole.

Here are a sample of useful links to Open Access initiatives in other areas of research, scholarship, education and government, both in Canada and internationally.

Renew items

• You can renew library books and most other items online in My Library Account
  • When you view your loans in Omni you will see all of your Queen's University Library items listed. 

Loan Periods

Queen’s University Library supports Queen’s authors with making their work open access and available to the widest possible audience.  

There are two established routes to make your publications Open Access: Self-Archive for Free (Green Open Access) and Pay to Publish (Gold Open Access).

For our available publisher discounts for open access article processing charges (APCs), please see Open Access Publishing Fees - Support.

Borrowing library materials requires a library account / library card. Login to your account in Omni to find out what you have borrowed, due dates, fines and status of your hold requests.

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