Types of open access publishing

There are 2 (two) types of open access

a. Gold open access: As per Elsevier

• An author can publish in an open access journal or hybrid journal which supports open access.

• The published article is freely available to everyone but the author can choose commercial or non-commercial Creative Commons license.

• If there is fee then publishing cost should be covered by the author or the institution or funding agency.

• All the open access journals can be found on the Directory of open access journals (https://doaj.org).

• DOAJ contains the journals in various 80 languages from 126 countries having 16665 journals and 6376560 articles till date.

b. Green open access: As per Elsevier

• The article can be published under a subscription model by linking and self-archiving the article for sharing as per policy.

• All accepted manuscripts should have Creative Commons use license, thus author retain the right to the article for further use.

• No fee is required to pay by the author for the publication as it is covered under the subscription.

• All the self-archiving publishers with policies can be found of SHERPA/RoMEO database.

• Open Access SHERPA-RoMEO project for free self-archiving.

• Sharing the research information, freely in the form of article/paper

• Self-archiving also known as "Green Open Access" in institutional repository.

• SHERPA project commenced in 2002 by JISC and CURL

• RoMEO is Publisher's copyright and archiving policies

• This project is backed by UNESCO.