open access the basic terms ozden sahin repository coordinator goldsmiths research online
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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)
Follow our Open Access week activities.
#OAWeek2014
