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Open access publications and initiatives

What is Open Access?

At it’s most fundamental Open Access is when publications are freely availble online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards
reuse. The unrestricted distribution of research is especially important for authors (as their work gets seen by more people), readers (as they can
access and build on the most recent work in the field) and funders (as the work they fund has broader impact by being able to reach a wider
audience).

There are two routes to open access:

Gold open access - Gold OA makes the final version of an article freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication.
Copyright for the article is retained by the authors and most of the permission barriers are removed. Gold OA articles can be published either in
fully OA journals (where all the content is published OA) or hybrid journals (a subscription-based journal that offers an OA option which authors
can chose if they wish). An overview of fully OA journals can be found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

 Green open access - Green OA, also referred to as self-archiving, is the practice of placing a version of an author’s manuscript into a
repository, making it freely accessible for everyone. The version that can be deposited into a repository is dependent on the funder or publisher.
Unlike Gold OA the copyright for these articles usually sits with the publisher of, or the society affiliated with, the title and there are restrictions
as to how the work can be reused. There are individual self-archiving policies by journal or publisher that determine the terms and conditions e.g.
which article version may be used and when the article can be made openly accessible in the repository (also called an embargo period). A list of
publishers’ self-archiving policies can be found on the SHERPA/RoMEO database.

2. SHERPA/Romeo Online resources to check publisher copy right and self -archiving policies

SHERPA is an acronym for Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access.
The UK based organization has initiated a number of projects, many of them around open access
publishing. RoMEO is one of these services, hosted by the University of Nottingham. SHERPA/RoMEO is
a resource that allows users to check the self-archiving policies of international publishers and scholarly
journals.

The Writers interested in open access or storing versions of their publications in institutional
repositories or otherwise shared in public can use this site to discover under what conditions a particular
journal will allow sharing of a published article. These conditions often involve publisher copyright.
Basically RoMEO entries summarize publisher policies for copyright and self-archiving for peer reviewed
journals. Under the search tab RoMEO provides a brief description of RoMEO color codes.

These color codes tie in with open or shared access policies. The colors are green, blue, yellow,
and white. Green allows authors to archive pre-print, post-print, the publisher’s version, or PDF. Green is
the most desirable in this area and white is the most restrictive. Further information can be found about
various colors and their related policies on the site. As RoMEO notes, sometimes open access
discussions talk about ‘‘gold’’ publishers. This is a later development independent of RoMEO categories,
and is used to describe publishers of open access journals. All open access journals allow archiving and
can be taken as RoMEO ‘‘green.’’ (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ romeo/definitions.php?laDen&fIDnumD|
&modeDsimple&versionD#colors).

Users can search RoMEO by publisher name, journal title, or ISSN. In the advanced search
authors can also look for copyright policies via a specific country. While this may not be as useful for
large countries such as the United States, for smaller countries such as Australia or New Zealand it can
be worthwhile to gain a quick overview.
 The site has a plain language FAQ. Users can suggest publisher or journal additions. Both the
simple and advanced search boxes are easy to navigate. Most users would search for the individual
journal title instead of by publisher, but having the publisher lists available is nonetheless useful. Some
writers might decide that if they had a good experience publishing in a specific journal but now wanted
to cover another topic area not represented by the journal then a quick search of the publisher could
show other desirable journals.

SHERPA/RoMEO is a very useful site for academic writers (and some staff members of
institutional repositories) concerned with making their published articles more publicly accessible.
SHERPA/RoMEO is highly recommended for authors of peer-reviewed journal articles who also want to
promote their works in repositories and who wish to keep some author rights, or for those who wish to
make decisions about publication from an informed position. Sometimes the publisher policies might be
restrictive but if tenure or academic promotions depend on publishing in a specific journal then the
writer/staff member can make his or her own decision on how to proceed.

3. Journal finder/ Journal Suggestion tools , via, JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer
Journal Suggester,etc

 Elsevier Journal Finder

Elsevier Journal Finder helps you find Elsevier journals that could be best suited for publishing your scientific article. The Journal Finder uses smart
search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match your article to Elsevier journals.

 EndNote Match: Find the Best Fit Journals for Your Manuscript

With a few key pieces of information—your title, abstract, and references—EndNote Match can help you find the right journal for your manuscript.

 Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)

Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your
paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!

 Publish or Flourish Open Access

FlourishOA is a resource for identifying high-quality, high-value open access journals.

 Springer Journal Suggester

Use the Springer Journal Selector to search for all Springer and BioMed Central journals to find a journal for your manuscript.

 Think. Check. Submit

Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted

journals for their research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

 Web of Science Master List

The Web of Science Master list contains a list of approximately 24,000 journals indexed by the Web of Science platform. A manuscript matcher tool is
also available.

4. Use of Plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software

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