Gold Open Access Publishing
Create a article: finish your research and complete article.
Pick a publisher: choose a publisher and make sure it will accept your works.
Pay for publishing: publish will charge an article processing charge (APC) to make work available open access.
Published: your work will be seen by public.
Green Open Access Publishing
Green access also depends on who funded your research.
Peer-review: Author should host a peer-review to evaluate this work.
Deposited: Deposited you work in the Repository.
Self-archiving: Doing self-archiving so public can find your work.
Embargo period: Please notice sometimes there will be an Embargo period.
Your paper cannot be made available to the public.
Gold Open Access Publishing Vs Green Open Access Publishing
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Gold open access |
Green open access |
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Version available |
Version of record freely available on the publisher's website |
Accepted manuscript freely available in an online repository |
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Availability |
Open access is immediate |
Embargo period usually applied which is usually 6-12 months |
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Charges |
APC payable by author, institution or funding body |
No fee payable by author |
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Creative Commons |
CC licence is required |
No CC licence required |
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Can be published in |
Full open access or hybrid journal |
Subscription or hybrid journal |
Here are some useful tools for open access publishing:
- SHERPA/RoMEOCheck the self-archiving and open access policies of publishers.
- SHERPA/JulietCheck the open access policies of funders.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Search or browse open access journals.
- Directory of Open Access BooksSearch or browse books that have been published in open access.
- OpenDOARDirectory of open access repositories.
- Registry of Research Data RepositoriesSearch or browse data repositories by subject, content type or country. Not all repositories are open access.