Open Access @OSU Libraries: Open Access

Open Access Terminology

OA Gold - authors publish their article in an open access journal

OA Green - authors publish their article in a journal, then deposit a copy of their article the university's institutional repository (or in other central repositories, such as PubMed Central), so that it is freely available to the public.

Hybrid OA - provide Gold open access only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an open access publishing fee.

Preprint - version of a scholarly work submitted for peer review including only the original work of the author(s).

Postprint - also known as the author's final version, this version incorproates all changes from peer review, but it has not yet been copyedited and formatted for publication.

Author's Addendum - attached to publication or copyright transfer agreements requesting additional author rights beyond those already granted by the publisher.

Additional information on open access: http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/openaccess

Identifying Quality Journals

Determining the quality of any journal (open or not) may seem challenging, there are several criteria that you can apply to make an informed decision:

Who publishes in the journal? Who is on the editorial board?
Where is the journal indexed?
What are the journal's peer review policies?
Are there article processing fees? Are the fees typical for a journal in that discipline?

There are several resources to help you think through this evaluation criteria:

http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/evaluating

Access to research

Following the Office of Science and Technology Policy directive to make all research resulting from federally funded projects available and accessible, libraries have strengthened their efforts to raise awareness regarding open access with authors and the importance and impact of retaining rights to one's own work as well as ensuring the widest reach and impact of scholarship.

We continue to grapple with these issues, and invite you to read and think about them further: http://acrl.libguides.com/c.php?g=539108&p=3694721