APC
APCs (article processing charges) are publication fees charged by open access journals.
Open Science Policy
In an open science policy, organisations specify their guidelines in relation to open science. These guidelines determine the roles, rights and obligations of various actors within the institution with regard to the implementation of open science.
arXiv
a document server for preprints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, and related domains.
Open Access
Open access to academic literature or data means free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles/data.
Hybrid Journal
Hybrid journals are subscription-based journals that offer their authors the option of turning individual articles Open Access by paying a publication fee
Scholar-led Publishing
The term scholar-led publishing refers to a publication model where scholars organise and come together to publish their research results independently.
Zenodo
An all-purpose open access repository that was developed within the framework of the European OpenAIRE project. Zenodo enables researchers to make datasets, research software, reports, and other research-related digital documents available to the public.
Green Open Access
Green open access – also known as self-archiving – refers to making works published with a publisher or in a journal available to the public in a repository. It is sometimes understood to refer also to making such works available on the author’s personal website.
Open Peer Review
Open peer review refers to variants of the quality control of scholarly manuscripts that, in contrast to traditional peer review, take place in a transparent, open, and sometimes also collaborative way.
Publication Fund
Open access publication funds are an instrument through which scientific and scholarly institutions support their authors in paying open access publication charges.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
A coalition of international scholars and scientists which, in 2002, called for free and unrestricted access to, and reusability of, scholarly literature in all academic fields.
Altmetrics
Altmetrics are bibliometric indicators that measure a scholarly publication’s impact.
Overlay Journal
Overlay journals are open access journals that use the infrastructure of preprint servers. For example, authors make the preprints of their manuscripts freely available in arXiv and at the same time submit them for publication to an overlay journal. If the submitted article successfully undergoes peer review and is accepted for publication, the original version continues to remain available alongside the edited publisher’s version.
Fair Open Access
A non-profit version of gold open access. It strives for full, immediate and transparent implementation of open access. At the same time, it aims to return control over the publication process to the scholarly community.
ROAR
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a list of open access repositories.
Ingest
Ingest is the phase in the data lifecycle in which research data is added to an archive or repository.