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Open Access Publishing

Guidance in open access scholarly publishing for researchers in all disciplines.

Defining Open Access

Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. 

While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, legitimate OA journals and books comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards.

 

Definition of Terms

Green OA

Green OA is the self-archiving of published or pre-publication works for free public use. Authors provide access to preprints or post-prints (with publisher permission) in an institutional or disciplinary archive such as eCommons@Cornell and arXiv.org.

Gold OA

Gold OA works published in an open access journal and accessed via the journal or publisher's website. Examples of Gold OA include PLOS (Public Library of Science) and BioMed Central.

Hybrid OA

Hybrid OA are journals that publishes many or most articles using a traditional subscription model, but allows authors to pay an extra fee to make their article OA.

Delayed OA

Delayed OA includes articles that becomes OA after a set time period, typically 6 or 12 months.

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Web Resources

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