When publishing Open Access (OA), the author retains copyright to his or her publication while granting users the rights to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search in or link to the full-text without demanding financial compensation.
Expenses for OA publishing are covered either by the research funder, Nord University’s Open Access Fund or through the university’s participation in national journal agreements.
Definitions Gold, Green and Hybrid OA
Gold OA: All the papers in a journal are made openly accessible at the time of publication, without any embargo.
Green OA: Self-archiving of scholarly articles, books/book chapters and PhD theses in open repositories, possibly with an embargo.
Hybrid OA: Payment of an extra article processing charge (APC) to make individual articles openly accessible in subscription-based journals.
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Why publish Open Access?
Research funded by society should be accessible to everyone. Society should not have to pay for access to this research
One of the aims of Open Access is to alter the current journal funding model (the subscription-based model) and create a funding model where you do not pay for access to research findings
Open Access provides everyone with equal opportunity to access research findings. The use of open licences implies that work may be shared and used with fewer limitations
New knowledge will be discovered faster once it is openly accessible. The removal of copyright barriers implies that more people can use and build on this knowledge. Open Access publications are downloaded, read and cited more frequently than other publications
Publications which are archived and made available in open institutional, disciplinary or national repositories will also be accessible in the future
When choosing to publish Open Access, authors retain the rights to use their own work instead of transferring copyright to publishers