Hannah PayneRepository Support Officer

Budapest Open Access Initiative

◦‘the free availability of material on the public internet, permitting any users to link to, read and use the full texts of that material, for any lawful purpose, without barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.’

Research publicly funded but not publicly available

OA archiving and/ or publishing mandated by funders◦http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

Green OA◦Deposit of pre-print or post-print of

accepted paper for publishing within a repository.

Gold OA◦Published version openly available via

publisher’s website

Paid option available through traditional subscription publishershttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

PaidOA.html

OA Publishers◦Public Library of Science (PLoS) ◦BioMed Central (BMC)

Copyright transferre

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Pay to access

Pay to access

Access institution subscription

Copyright retained

Free to access

*Pay to publish on academic’s

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Pay to publish*

Free to access

OA publishing is peer reviewed OA publishing is not vanity publishing OA journals still provide esteem publishing Copyright in papers remains with author Green OA allowed with Gold OA

Overall OA summary: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml

SHERPA Juliet- Funder’s OA policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

SHERPA RoMEO- Publishers Web deposit policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo