What does Open Access mean?
This year's international open access week will take place from the 23rd to the 27th of October 2023. We would like to take this opportunity to promote the idea of "open access publishing" and to inform you about the opportunities available to you. Therefore, we will offer you some information on this topic every day.
Today we will start with information on open access in general. You can find target group-specific information either on our library website or on the information platform open-access.network.
Open Access means unrestricted and free access to scientific and scholarly information without payment barriers for readers. There are different ways of publishing scientific results open access. Open access generally distinguishes between the gold and green road.
The golden road refers to primarily publishing scientific results in pure open access journals. There are two different models here: If journals are financed via so-called article processing charges (APC's), authors have to pay the APC so that the article is published in this open access journal.
Other journals, e.g. those of scientific societies, do not charge any fees for free access. This path is called platinum or diamond open access.
The green road refers to the additional publication (secondary publication) of a document that has previously been published in a journal or book on institutional or disciplinary open access document servers. This can be done simultaneously with or subsequent to the publication and is possible for pre- and postprints of scientific articles, but also other document types such as monographs, research reports, and conference proceedings.
Online Coffee Lecture: The Paths of Open Access (Video, 7:50 min)
Tomorrow, we will present the publication fund of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau for financing open access publications.