Green Road to Open Access

The green path refers to the additional publication (self-archiving) of a document published by a publisher or in a paid journal on institutional or disciplinary open access repositories.

More and more publishers grant a second publication right for authors. You can publish simultaneously with or after the publication of the content in the publishing house. You should clarify the legal conditions in advance. SHERPA/RoMEO provides information on publisher copyright and open access archiving policies. Dissem.in detects papers behind paywalls and helps their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.

Besides, the German Act on Copyright and Related Rights stipulates that scientific contributions may be published a second time subsequently. For this purpose certain conditions must be met. It is important that you do not assign your exploitation rights.

We recommend to archive your scientific or scholarly publication via a professional or institutional repository. KLUEDO is the document server of the TU Kaiserslautern, which is technically and editorially managed by the university library. All members of the university can publish electronically generated scientific contributions (theses, conference papers, journal articles etc.) free of charge on KLUEDO. Once published, the texts are available worldwide for free use on the internet and are permanently archived by the German National Library.

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