Publishing OA helps to advance discovery by allowing everyone to access your outputs with no further cost. There are multiple channels that researchers can publish their work as OA:
Types of Open Access
There are two key OA publishing routes - Gold OA and Green OA.
Gold OA
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Green OA
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Article Version (Learn more about Article Version) |
Final Published Version | Author Manuscript (Pre-print / Post-print) |
Timing | Immediate open access with articles made freely available at the point of publication | Often deferred open access, in accordance with publisher embargo periods (normally 12 to 24 months) |
Cost | Usually requires a payment of Article Processing Charge (APC)* to publish an article | No additional cost to author |
Location | Open Access or Hybrid Journal | Online repository (subject or institutional), archive or website (Learn more about Self-archiving) |
Licensing (Learn more about Licensing) |
Less stringout licensing restrictions to maximize access, re-use and dissemination | Flexible licensing options that allow for more author control over his/her work |
*APC: An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which involved when making a work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal. This fee may be paid by the author, the author's institution, or their research funder.
More types of OA
Hybrid OA
- Similar with Gold OA
- The main difference with Gold OA is they only appear in subscription based journals
- Publishers will offer authors to pay a fee for the individual article open access in an subscription-based journal
Platinum/Diamond OA
- Similar with Gold OA
- The main difference with Gold OA is no article processing charges or publication fees for authors
- They are usually financed by a university or research organization
Bronze OA
- No OA fee is needed but only the publisher chooses to make a publication freely available to read
- The publisher can stop OA at any time
- Has no Creative Commons license