Types of OA
This color, which also signals “Go” at a stoplight, is a type of Open Access in which an author is allowed to share an article on their webpage or in an institutional repository like Digital Commons.
What is green?
Defined as preying on or seeking to exploit others, this term refers to publishers who fraudulently claim to be peer-reviewed Open Access journals to collect fees from unsuspecting authors.
What is predatory?
Studying the stars and galaxies – the top four journals of this field are completely open access.
What is Astronomy?
Long for OA, this is a movement to provide free access to research by removing price and permission barriers.
What is Open Access?
A stone often used in engagement rings, these are journals that publish open access, but do not charge APCs.
What is diamond?
In other contexts, this term can mean an official ban on trade. In OA, this is the term for the delay period during which a publisher restricts access before an author can post an article in a repository.
What is embargo?
The study of changes in matter, this field has the most expensive journals in all of the sciences.
What is Chemistry?
Referred to as OER, these are freely available educational materials that can be used, adapted, or modified by anyone.
What are Open Educational Resources?
A vehicle that runs on both gas and electricity, this type is where the library pays a subscription fee for the journal and authors pay APCs for their articles to be open access.
What is hybrid?
Two words, this expression describes the problem of academic library budgets struggling to keep up with the consistently high and rising prices of subscription journals. (Hint: Breakfast food + economic meltdown)
What is serials crisis?
The study of living organisms and their life processes, eLife is a prestitigious open access journal in this field of study. (think mitochondria)
What is Biology?
A subset of OER and abbreviated as OAT, this refers to a textbook that is freely available online.
What is Open Access Textbook?
This metal, Au on the periodic table, represents a type of open access publishing in which the final published version of a paper is free to read for anyone with internet access.
What is gold?
Known as a place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored, this is a general term for a digital archive that collects, preserves, and disseminates scholarly works. e.g. NJIT Library's Digital Commons
What is repository?
The study of computers and computational systems, this field's open access publications has influenced software development and advancing artificial intelligence research.
What is Computer Science?
Often abbreviated as CC, this type of license is where an author grants permission for reuse of their work while retaining different types of non-exclusive permission.
What is Creative Commons?
This metal alloy, often comprised of copper and tin, includes open access journals that are free to read but not reuse.
What is bronze?
Done by graduate students with their thesis or dissertation upon graduation, this hyphenated term refers to a process where an author uploads or deposits a digital document in an open access repository at a university or institution.
What is self-archiving?
The study of matter, motion, and energy, this department boasts the largest number of open access publications at NJIT.
What is Physics?
Also referred to as APCs, these are fees that authors pay to publish their research articles in open access journals.
What are Article Processing Charges OR Article Page Charges?