Open access (OA) is a publication model that seeks to achieve immediate, free, permanent and independent online access to the results of publicly funded science and research.
There are two basic open access models – green and gold route to open access.
Green open access complements the traditional way of publishing through scientific journals. Authors still publish their articles in journals with a subscription-based model or in open journals, but at the same time they store and make available the full-text version of their article in an open digital repository (known as self-archiving).
We distinguish between the following basic types of open repositories:
You can use the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) to find a suitable repository to publish your article or to search for relevant literature.
Open access to a publication in the case of the green route is provided by authors themselves, however, it is limited by what the publisher allows them to publish. The terms of self-archiving (whether the author can publish the article, which version and under what conditions) are set out in the licensing agreement (often referred to as the Licensing Agreement or Copyright Transfer Agreement).
Have you decided to publish by the green route? Take a look at the individual steps.
The gold route to open access is based on publishing in peer-reviewed open scientific journals. In the case of this route, open access to the publication is provided by the publisher.
There are three basic models of open access journals:
Journals that make their content available free of charge after the expiration of the embargo period are not considered to be open access as they do not meet the condition of immediate access.
The idea of paid open journals began to be misused by fraudulent publishers and journals, generally known as predators.
You can use the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database to find a suitable open journal to publish your article or to search for relevant literature.
Have you decided to publish by the gold route? Take a look at the individual steps. Authors from Charles University are also eligible to use discounts on publishing with certain publishers.
In order for a publication to meet all open access requirements, it must be, among other things, available for reuse. This can be secured by licensing under public licenses, especially the internationally known Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Using one of the six offered variants of CC licenses, the author can determine how the published work should be handled, and thus allow anyone to use the work under clearly defined conditions.
In the case of the gold route, the option to choose a public license is given either by the publisher’s general policy or is the subject of a paid service (included in the publication fee). For the green route, it depends on the contractual conditions that the author signed when publishing. If the author is the copyright holder, they can publish the article in the repository under a public license.
If you do not know which license to choose for your publication, use a simple application for selecting the appropriate license.
SOURCE: https://openscience.cuni.cz/OSCIEN-10.html
