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.

Open Access Publishing

1. Many publishing house owns the rights of the articles published in their journals and they charge fee from whoever wants to read them.

2. Therefore, the idea of open access publishing is introduced where the authors and the readers are free from publishing and accessing, respectively.

3. In research, open access is a set of rule and regulation by which a research scholar can access the resource of relevant field of research for further research.

4. Open access publish the research article for free and give access to other researcher for further study for free.

5. The main principle of open access publishing is peer reviewed literature for the research and eradicates copying and reuse by open access licensing.

6. Open access publications are applicable to all types of publications like peer-reviewed journals, research papers, theses, books, etc.

7. Open access publishing is backed by UNESCO to provided free and unrestricted online resource for the research purpose. 

8. As per UNESCO, "the content is universally and freely accessible, at no cost to the reader, via the Internet or otherwise." 

9. As per UNESCO, the author or copyright owner irrevocably grants to all users, for an unlimited period, "the right to use, copy, or distribute the article, on condition that proper attribution is given."

10. As per UNESCO, "it is deposited, immediately, in full and in a suitable electronic form, in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository committed to open access."

11. All digital contents like audio, video, text, graph, images, software, data, executable code, articles, theses, etc. are free to publish by the author and free to access by the person who wants to use it, ethically.

12. Advantages of open access publications are

• Free for all the authors and readers who wants to use, ethically

• Increase in accessing the resource

• Free access to the researchers in all the countries

13. Disadvantages of open access publications are

• Sustainability in longer run for publication houses

• Lack in quality of the written materials as quantity increases

• No fee leads many publications houses to be shut down without fund