What is Open Access (OA)?
 
Open access (OA) means that research publications/research results are made freely available in digital form so anyone can access, read and benefit from the publication free of charge.
 
Benefits of Open Access:
  • Free Access
  • More usage / Reaching more people
  • More efficient research results
  • Get more citations
  • Reliable and true metadata
  • Long-term protection
  • To access from different search engines
  • Strengthening Scientific communication
  • Prevention of journal prices increase
  • To make usable and shareable scientific knowledge from every language
  • Enhances interdisciplinary research
  • Accelerates the pace of research, discovery and innovation
  • Democratizes access across all institutions – regardless of size or budget
  • Increases competitiveness of academic institution
Vocabulary:
  • Embargo: a publisher's restrictions on how soon an article can be published in an open archive.
  • Gold open access:  a scientific article is published in an OA-journal with a publication fee.
  • Gratis open access: publishing without charge.
  • Green open access: parallel publishing of an article in a freely accessible university institutional repository.
  • Hybrid open access: the author has the option to pay for making individual articles in subscription-based journals freely accessible.
  • Libre open access: in addition to free access user rights, additional rights are given using Creative Commons licenses.
  • Post-print: refereed version of an article, including changes.
  • Pre-print: version of an article that has not yet been refereed.

 

Please see SU Open Science Policy.