Open Access is the process of making the outputs from research available online for free with limited reuse barriers. It has so many benefits and increases the reach and impact of scholarly output on a global scale. Open Access is concerned with equity and the dissemination of scholarly literature, ensuring that a world wide audience can engage with the outputs from research. Fundamentally, information should be seen as a public good and Open Access seeks to ensure that all those who seek to engage with the outputs from research can do so. Fundamentally, this helps to create and sustain an inclusive, collaborative and Open culture throughout the research lifecycle!
| Article Processing Charge (APC) | A fee that is paid to the publisher by the author, their employer or their funder to allow immediate (Gold) Open Access. |
| Creative Commons Licence | A system of Open licensing that allows copyright owners to specify different levels of rights protection and terms of reuse for their work. |
| Diamond / Platinum Open Access | Open access publication without the payment of a fee or Article Processing Charge (APC). |
| Double Dipping | An institution pays twice for an Open Access journal article; firstly through the institutional subscription and secondly the APC if an author wishes to make their particular article Open Access. |
| Embargo Period | The length of time before a publisher will permit the posting of the postprint or Author Accepted Manuscript of an article into an Open Access repository. Consult Sherpa/Romeo for more information on embargo periods for individual journals. |
| Gold Open Access | Immediate open access to a published article in a subscription journal or an Open Access journal usually achieved by payment of a fee (Article Processing Charge or APC) to the publisher. |
| Green Open Access | Also known as self archiving, is achieved by depositing a copy of an output, either the preprint or post print (also known as the Author Accepted Manuscript), into an institutional or subject based repository, typically after an embargo period. |
| Hybrid Open Access | A journal which operates under the subscription model, but offers an Open Access option for authors for a fee (APC). |
| Institutional Repository | An Open Access archive, organised and maintained by a higher education institution, providing access to the research outputs of researchers within that institution. UDORA is the institutional repository at Derby. |
| Post Print | Also known as Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM). The version of the paper which has been through peer review and has been accepted for publication but prior to copyediting and typesetting. See Sherpa/Romeo for details of which version of the article you are able to upload for a particular journal/publisher. |
| Preprint | Also known as submitted version or author original version. The version of the paper as submitted to a journal for peer review. |
| Rights Retention | A way to achieve immediate Open Access via self archiving or the Green route by applying a CC-BY license to your author accepted manuscript. |
| Zombie Journal | An academic journal published by a commercial publisher that has lost the respect and support of its local community. Zombie journals are formed when editorial boards resign en masse from running a journal in response to anti-intellectual and commercial practices of the publisher. It is often followed by the launch of a new open access journal to which the academic community migrates, leaving behind the undead zombie title, a husk of its former self, an emblem of the acquisitive motives of unscrupulous commercial scholarly publishers. Related to vampire capitalism, which Karl Marx defined in Capital, Vol 1 as 'dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour'. The Open Library Of Humanities (2023). |