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Open Access
The Basic Terms
Ozden Sahin
Repository Coordinator
Goldsmiths Research Online
What is open access?
Open access can be defined as free, unrestricted online access to
scholarly research material.
“Open access (OA) literature is
digital, online, free of charge, and
free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions.”*
* Peter Suber, “What is Open Access?”, Open Access (Cambridge, MA: The
MIT Press, 2012), 4.
GRO
Goldsmiths Research Online is the open access research repository
of
Goldsmiths. Its aim is to bring together research outputs conducted
by
academics at the College. GRO holds material as diverse as books,
journal
articles, conference papers, exhibitions, artworks, and compositions.
http://research.gold.ac.uk
HEFCE
Higher Education Funding Council for England
RCUK
Research Councils UK
would like you to make your work open access for the next
REF
Research Excellence Framework
assessment.
How can you make your research
outputs open access?
There are two ways.
1) Gold Open Access
Paid open access.
Open access journal publications.
2) Green Open Access
Open access via an institutional repository.
AUTHOR ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT (AAM)
An AAM is the version of your paper after peer-review and before publisher
pagination
and formatting.
Many academic journals do not allow us to deposit the publisher pdf (unless
they are
Open Access journals). However, we can use AAMs to make your work open
access via
the green route.
GRO is reporting to Research Councils UK the percentage of
funded
research outputs made open access via green and gold
route.
For the next REF assessment, HEFCE asks you to make
open access
your scholarly research articles and papers in conference
proceedings
within 3 months of acceptance date.
What are your next steps as a researcher?
My paper is accepted
to an academic journal/
conference proceedings.
*
Have money for Open Access?
Yes
Make it Gold OA
via your funder or institution.
acceptance date.
April 2016)
No
Deposit your AAM to GRO
within 3 months of
(as of
Have questions?
Get in touch.
[email protected]
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