Showing posts with label Gold open access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gold open access. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2021

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.

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