Engaged Scholarship Library Toolkit

• Anchor Learning Network

  The Anchor Learning Network (ALN) is designed to facilitate a more rapid and effective advancement of the anchor mission within member institutions, in home communities, and across the higher education sector. By leveraging a peer learning framework, ALN members will systematically transform higher education to fully serve its public mission and advance the long-term social, economic, and physical health of our campuses and communities.

• National Anchor Institution Task Force

  The Task Force is a permanent organization created to develop and disseminate knowledge that assists in the creation and advancement of democratic, mutually beneficial anchor-institution community partnerships

• Engaged Scholarship Consortium

  The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, is composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state-public and private institutions. Our goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.

• The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship

  The mission of ACES is to provide expertise to policymakers, higher education institutions and organizations, community leaders, and national and international entities interested in addressing complex societal issues through the effective engagement of higher education with community members and organizations.

• Place-Based Justice Network

  The Place-Based Justice Network (PBJN) is a learning community committed to transforming higher education and our communities by deconstructing systems of oppression through place-based community engagement.

The resources provided on this page offer various tools for presenting your findings.

• Storymaps

  An interactive tool for telling digital stories through maps and multimedia.

• Timeline JS

  A tool for telling creating digital histories with the use of a timeline and multimedia integration.

• Canva

  A free, premier graphic design platform with multimedia design functionality. Good for posters, pamphlets and more.

• Twine

  Non-linear gamified storytelling tool.

The resources on this page include different for how you may present your findings to different communities, either as a community partner, or as a researcher describing your experience.

• With the Local Community:

  • Designed for the readability and use of a community partner's stakeholders
  • Possible formats:
    • Posters or infographics
    • Published datasets
    • Articles or reports
    • Multimedia
    • Resource lists
    • Pamphlets

• For an Academic Community:

  • Designed for an academic audience
  • Possible formats:
    • Academic papers
    • Conference papers
    • Published datasets
    • Posters
    • Bibliographies

• To Others (Outside the Local Community and Academia):

  • Designed for the readability of everyone
  • Possible formats:
    • Posters or infographics
    • Articles
    • Bibliographies
    • Multimedia

Article Publishing Fees

Article Processing Charge (APC) Waivers

Loyola currently has agreements with two publishers that allow Loyola faculty and students to publish open access in their journals without paying the article processing charge. The publishers and requirements are listed below.

• Wiley: Article publication charges (APCs) for primary research and review articles published by corresponding authors currently affiliated with Loyola University Chicago will be covered as part of Loyola University Chicago’s agreement with Wiley*. To qualify, articles must be published open access in a hybrid journal and must have been accepted on or after 1 Jan 2022.
  *subject to availability of sufficient funds.
• Cambridge University Press:
  • Have a corresponding author affiliated with Loyola University.
  • Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
  • Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal covered by the agreement.
  • Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2022.

More about Article Processing Fees

If you’re not used to the idea, being asked to pay any fee can seem like a scam or like you’re bribing a publisher to publish you. That’s just not the case for the majority of open access journals. Even many subscription journals charge page fees to authors, so it’s not unique to open access.

Traditionally, journals were funded by subscriptions paid by libraries, individuals, as well as institutional or grant funding. While that is still the prevalent model, the price of journals—particularly online access through databases—has far outstripped inflation, and leaves many libraries struggling to pay for access. Open access journals are often still funded by institutions or grants, and do not charge publication fees. This is more common in certain disciplines, but you can find open access journals across the board that don’t require a fee.

In others, the journal does charge a fee that goes to the cost of editing, layout, web hosting, and the other costs built into running a journal. This has the added benefit of making the article available to anyone, even those without access to libraries who can subscribe to journals. This is called “gold” open access.

Note that this term is also used for commercial publishers who charge fees for making articles available open access in a subscription journal. Since 2012, this practice has become extremely common as more and more funding bodies, particularly federal grants, require that work be made open access within a designated time period. Commercial publishers often have an embargo on making work open access that exceeds the grant requirements, and so the only way the author can comply with the funder is to pay the open access fee. These certainly can be written into research grants, but you will need to be thinking about this far in advance of publication in that case.

Some open access journals offer a fee waiver program if you wouldn’t be able to pay the fee (example PLOS). Loyola has several agreements with publishers to waive the fee. You can see a real-life example of how someone manages to make work open access at the NeuroDojo blog. If you work in biological or medical sciences, PeerJ provides an innovative model with a lifetime publication fee starting at $99.

Be wary of publication fees when you haven’t been told up front what the fee is.

For more information, visit Open Access: Publishing Your Own Work.