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Open AccessThe Basic Terms

Ozden SahinRepository 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

HEFCEHigher Education Funding Council for England

RCUKResearch Councils UK

would like you to make your work open access for the next

REFResearch Excellence Framework

assessment.

How can you make your research outputs open access?

There are two ways.

1) Gold Open AccessPaid open access. Open access journal publications.

2) Green Open AccessOpen 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 acceptedto an academic journal/conference proceedings.

*Have money for Open Access?

Yes NoMake it Gold OA Deposit your AAM to GRO via your funder or institution. within 3 months of

acceptance date. (as of April 2016)

Have questions?

Get in touch.

gro@gold.ac.ukopenaccess@gold.ac.uk

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