Post on 01-Apr-2015
Hannah PayneRepository Support Officer
Budapest Open Access Initiative
◦‘the free availability of material on the public internet, permitting any users to link to, read and use the full texts of that material, for any lawful purpose, without barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.’
Research publicly funded but not publicly available
OA archiving and/ or publishing mandated by funders◦http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
Green OA◦Deposit of pre-print or post-print of
accepted paper for publishing within a repository.
Gold OA◦Published version openly available via
publisher’s website
Paid option available through traditional subscription publishershttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
PaidOA.html
OA Publishers◦Public Library of Science (PLoS) ◦BioMed Central (BMC)
Copyright transferre
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Pay to access
Pay to access
Access institution subscription
Copyright retained
Free to access
*Pay to publish on academic’s
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Pay to publish*
Free to access
OA publishing is peer reviewed OA publishing is not vanity publishing OA journals still provide esteem publishing Copyright in papers remains with author Green OA allowed with Gold OA
Overall OA summary: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
SHERPA Juliet- Funder’s OA policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
SHERPA RoMEO- Publishers Web deposit policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo