Courtesy  of  Katie  Fortney,  UC  Santa  Cruz  

    PLoS One is a Gold OA Journal The author, or more accurately her institution or funder, pays an article-processing charge (APC) in order to make her article freely available. Fees vary by journal, by country, and by other factors in order to widen participation. Cell Regeneration is a Gold OA Journal Publication costs are covered by the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, so authors do not pay an APC. Many Journals are Green OA Journals Any publisher that allows you to retain copyright to your work is a Green journal. When you control your work, you can make it available on a personal website, or better still, upload it to a shared repository (e.g. Trinity’s Digital Commons), making it easier to find.

Open Access Resources Right to Research Coalition righttoresearch.org By  students,  for  students.  R2RC  advocates  for  an  “open  scholarly  publishing  system  based  on  the  belief  that  no  student  should  be  denied  access  to  the  articles  they  need  because  their  institution  cannot  afford  the  high  cost  of  access.  Since  its  launch,  the  Coalition  has  grown  to  represent  nearly  7  million  students  internationally.”   SHERPA/RoMEO sherpa.ac.uk/romeo A  searchable  database  of  the  OA  policies  of  journals  and  publishers.  You’ll  always  want  to  read  the  fine  print  of  any  publication  agreement,  but  SHERPA/RoMEO  is  an  easy  way  to  see  whether  a  journal  will  allow  you  to  share  your  papers  and  under  what  conditions.   Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) sparc.arl.org SPARC  focuses  on  “supporting  the  emergence  of  new  scholarly  communication  models  that  expand  the  dissemination  of  scholarly  research  and  reduce  financial  pressures  on  libraries  and  create  a  more  open  system  of  scholarly  communications.  SPARC’s  strategy  focuses  on  reducing  barriers  to  the  access,  sharing,  and  use  of  scholarship.”  A  good  resource  for  rights  retention  and  author  addenda.     Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) doaj.org DOAJ  increases  “the  visibility  and  ease  of  use  of  open  access  scientific  and  scholarly  journals,  thereby  promoting  their  increased  usage  and  impact.  The  DOAJ  aims  to  be  comprehensive  and  cover  all  open  access  scientific  and  scholarly  journals  that  use  a  quality  control  system  to  guarantee  the  content.  In  short,  the  DOAJ  aims  to  be  THE  one  stop  shop  for  users  of  open  access  journals.”   OpenDOAR opendoar.org “OpenDOAR  is  an  authoritative  directory  of  academic  open  access  repositories.  Each  OpenDOAR  repository  has  been  visited  by  project  staff  to  check  the  information  that  is  recorded  here.  This  in-­‐depth  approach  does  not  rely  on  automated  analysis  and  gives  a  quality-­‐controlled  list  of  repositories.”