A read-and-publish journal license allows for researchers to both read articles from a journal as well as publish their articles on an open-access basis. It’s a response to the ever-growing preference for online and open access (OA) to research. The no-cost OA option right now at the U of U is self-archiving via USpace. But librarians have recently been able to negotiate this type of license with some publishers (listed below). And this type of license means that the library can support both reading and publishing.
We continue to explore agreements that best mirror the publishing choices and habits of University of Utah authors as a whole and that make the most sense financially.
Open Access (OA) is the term used for how academic content can be accessed for free without a paywall. It means there is no subscription required to read the published content. Most often, authors must pay Article Processing Fees (APC) in order to publish OA content but this is not true for all journals.
Click here for a good explanation of why Open Access is important by PHD Comics
The following publishing models are what academic journals offer when determining the type of access users will have to their published content. The terms are both based on how an author/university pays and how the content can be accessed.
Open Access: All content published in this model is free to read.
Closed Access: This model only allows for subscription-based access.
Hybrid: In this model, both subscription and open access options are available.
Transformative: This term is used for a journal that offers both subscription and Open Access options however the journal is committed to transforming 100% to an open access publication.
A hybrid journal publishing model means that a journal can have both Open Access and subscription-based reading of its content. Authors can choose to either have their work openly available (Open Access) or only available if readers have a subscription to the journal. This is done by choosing a Creative Commons licence, like CC-BY. See below for more information on the Creative Commons licence.
Transformative journals are subscription/hybrid journals that are firmly committed to transitioning completely to an Open Access publication. They must meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and generate policies which prevent double payments (i.e. for both subscription and APCs).
Gold
In Gold Open Access, the published content is freely available to read but there will be some form of payment by the author or their funder, often as an APC.
Diamond/Platinum
Diamond Open Access (sometimes referred to as Platinum) is where journals do not charge authors or readers. More information can be found here.
Green
Green Open Access is a form of self-archiving by the author(s) in repositories or websites, for example, after your content has been published by a subscription-based journal. Sometimes an embargo period will be applied by a journal to determine when the content can be self-archived.
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Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that enables you to find a list of all journals and their publishing models, conditions, and when the information was last updated.
Click here for a link to the Sherpa Romeo resource.
Plan S is an initiative to help researchers, universities, and funders ensure that open access is readily available to the research community. The initiative states that starting in 2021, all scholarly results that have been funded by private or public grants must be published as Open Access. Plan S has10 principles for the future of research which is outlined here.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is an independent index of peer-reviewed Open Access journals.
You can read more or search their index by visiting their website.
Transformative agreements are agreements that institutions make with publishers to convert subscription-based journals into an Open Access publishing model.
More information can be found here.
A Read & Publish agreement is an agreement between an institution and a publisher where one fee is paid to read paywalled content and enables authors to publish Open Access in a journal.
Similar to a Read & Publish, Publish & Read agreements are agreements between an institution and publisher where one fee is paid for enabling researchers to publish Open Access whilst also enabling access to read paywalled content.
Collective funding Models use some form of support fee rather than subscription- or APC-based fees. This fee is then used to support the maintenance of Open Access publications and may also be used to support a journal’s conversion to Open Access.
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is a subscription model where publishers are able to transform journals behind paywalls into Open Access. In this approach, publishers use their existing subscriptions to determine a threshold of subscriptions they require to be maintained. If the threshold is met by a yearly deadline, the content for that year is permanently made Open Access. This is then repeated each year. If the threshold is not met, then that year’s content will be behind a paywall.
More information can be found here.
In academic publishing, copyright is in the form of the article, images, text, etc which have been originally created. In the wider context, copyright is given to the person or creator of the content.
Find out more about copyright and your rights by clicking here.
This is an agreement that transfers the copyright from the owner to another. These are usually signed for publications in subscription-based journals.
Licences are the terms used for the attribution, distribution, copying, and use of someone’s work. There are several types of licences (e.g. Creative Commons) within academic publishing.
Click here to learn more about Creative Commons for researchers.
Here you can find a brief overview of the six Creative Commons licences, follow the heading links to find detailed information on the specific licence and how they are used:
CC BY
Creative Commons Attribution means that the article or content is freely able to be reused. The author or creator must be named when using their content.
CC BY-NC
Creative Commons -Attribution and Non-commercial allows anyone to reuse the content but the authors must be attributed, and the content cannot be used for commercial purpose.
CC BY-ND
Creative Commons Attribution and No Derivatives, means the authors of the content must be attributed but the reuse of the content must be used in the original form as the author/creator intended for release. In this case, the authors must give permission for the article or work to be reused.
CC BY-NC-ND
Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial and No Derivatives. This means the author/creator of the content must be attributed, the content cannot be reused for commercial purposes, and the content can only be used in the original form where the author/creator’s permission must be given.
CC BY-NC-SA
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareALike. The author/creator’s content should be attributed, the content cannot be used for commercial purposes, and the content can be copied and redistributed upon, transformed, etc.
CC BY-SA
Creative Commons Attribution, ShareAlike. The author/creators of the content should be attributed and the content can be copied and redistributed, built upon, transformed etc.
For more information about Creative Commons and their licences click here.
Article Processing Charges (APC) are the fees associated with publishing academic content in journals. Authors, funders or university libraries pay these fees to journals once an author’s publication has been accepted.
A publisher is the overall company that publishes the work, whilst imprints are trade names in which the company publishes. This can mean that a publisher can have multiple imprints (e.g. journals) in which they publish under.
In some institutions, a repository is a digital database that is maintained for archiving, collecting, persevering, and sharing copies of their employees’ and students’ content.
In {Country/University), for example, most of the researchers’ content is archived in the {Name Link Repository} and can be accessed for free.
An embargo is the time journals place on the authors right to place their content in other repositories.
DOI stands for Direct Object Identifier. In academic publishing, having a DOI linked to an article makes it easily readable, discoverable by many systems as well as providing a permanent link to the content. Checking that the journals assign a DOI to published content is one of the many ways to ensure the integrity of a journal.
ISSN stands for International Standard Serial Number. It is used to identify a continuous publication such as a journal whether it is online or in print. Both print and electronic journals will have a unique ISSN. This will be in the form of two groups of four-digit numbers that are separated by a hyphen (e.g. 1234-1234).
Further information on ISSN can be found here.
ORCID stands for The Open Researcher and Contributor ID is a unique and persistent identifier used to help keep the author’s contribution attributed even when their names change, for example. Many journals allow ORCIDs to be linked to authors in the publications.
More information on ORCID can be found here.
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