Research:Open Access
Open Access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, and increasingly also book chapters or monographs.[1] OA can be provided in two ways:[2]
- Green Open Access[3] is provided by authors self-archiving their postprints in their institutional repository or on some other OA website.[4] Green OA journal publishers[5] endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors.
- Gold Open Access is provided by authors publishing in an open access journal[6] that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website.[4] Hybrid open access journals provide Gold OA only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an OA publishing fee.
References
[edit]- ↑ Peter Suber: Open Access Overview (definition, introduction)
- ↑ Keith G. Jeffery: Open Access: An Introduction
- ↑ Harnad, S. (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In: The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age, pp. 99-105, L'Harmattan
- ↑ a b The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update
- ↑ Romeo registry of Journal OA Policies
- ↑ http://www.doaj.org/