Open@UM

• Start with the Introduction to Open Journal Publishing to learn about the different models of journal publishing.
• Search our Journal Search Tool for APC discounts, waivers and non-profit titles.
• Need to talk about your options, and situation - make a consultation.

• Start with our Open Publishing services page for an overview of your publishing options.
• Have a look at our platforms eScholarship and Pressbooks for examples of different types of education resources that have been developed by the UM community.
• Learn about the annual OER project grant to assist applicants in the development of an open education resource.
• Need to talk about your options and situation - make a consultation.

• Get started with the definition and terminology of Canadian creative rights and what it means retain these rights.
• Learn about the 2026 Tri-Agency Open Access Policy and the requirement of rights retention.
• Want more information and resources on how to negotiate my rights with my publisher.
• Need to talk about your options and situation - make a consultation.

• Consider depositing your textual scholarship in MSpace.
• If your work is data (i.e. spreadsheet, charts, figures, datasets, audio or video), consider UM Dataverse or if it's geographical science-related, consider GIS Hub.
• If you want your work to be included in a digital project or education resource, consider an eScholarship option.
• Sharing means utilizing an open license - consult UM Copyright or our rights resources.
• Need to talk about your sharing options, including non-UM hosted options (like discipline-specific resources) - make a consultation.

• MSpace is the University of Manitoba's institutional repository and the deposit location for Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies graduate programs as well as other undergraduate and graduate program collections. 
• Get started with the MSpace support page. 
• For extensive resources including a step-by-step walkthrough of the deposit process, see the Thesis/practicum deposit - MSpace Guide.

• Start with our Open Publishing Policies page to learn about different open policies from 3 categories of policy origins: funder, institutions and publishers.
• Consult our Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications resource for an explainer of the 2015 and 2026 requirements and supporting information.
• The Tri-Agency RDM policy is a related open policy involving data deposit - see the Research Data Management service page for more information.
• As of 2026, the University of Manitoba does not have an institutional open access policy or strategy.

• Start with our Open Journal Publishing page. 
• Journals are hosted on the Open Journals Systems (OJS) platform supported by the University of Manitoba Libraries.
• Have an idea for a journal and need more information on how to get started - submit a proposal or book a consultation.

• Predatory publishing and, relatedly, AI academic integrity are concerns with open publishing. Get started with our Evaluating OA resources to identify red flags and undertake actions to protect yourself.
• Other open evaluating initiatives under Open Science include open peer review, metrics and FAIR principles. 

Journals included in the UM APC discount tool are determined by the following criteria: (a) title lists provided by publishers as part of a transformative agreement; (b) entire publisher offerings as discount/offsets apply across all imprints; and (c) Canadian diamond journals (non-profit journals hosted/produced by Canadian publishers). The list of publisher agreements is found in our open access guide.

Consult MSpace Help for FAQs and their answers related to MSpace.

Some publishers will provide either by request or available in the submission portal the 'official' AAM version. If this doesn't apply, the AAM is the post-peer review version, usually with per line numbers and does not include the formatting and other publisher logo, copy editing etc. that demarcates the AAM from the final Version of Record. See our publishing terminology page for a glossary for related definitions.