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Open Access: Green Route
Open Access: Green Route
The green route: the full text of academic publications is deposited in a trusted repository, a publicly accessible database managed by a research organisation. You can find all Dutch institutional repositories via NARCIS, the Dutch portal for research information. NARCIS gives access to all the publications in Dutch repositories. Source: Dutch National
What are Institutional Repositories (IRs)?
What are Institutional Repositories (IRs)?
Institutional Repositories: Definitions
Institutional Repositories: Definitions
Creative Commons refers to the OA license used by authors to stipulate copyright and use of research publications
A Digital copy is the electronic copy of the publication in its final stage (either the author’s final manuscript after peer review or the publisher’s version).
An Embargo is the period during which a publication can be ‘closed’ while deposited in the repository (i.e. the publication is not openly available).
An Institutional Open Access Repository, is established according to international standards, containing digital content from various disciplines and providing advanced tools for search, navigation and Open Access to its digital collections
Metadata are the descriptors used for describing, tracing, use and management of the deposited item (indicatively: title of publication, author(s), institutional affiliation, name of journal where the publication has been accepted).
Pre-prints refer to the unpublished draft of research intended for publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
Post-prints refer to the final print of research articles after peer-review.
A Publication is defined as the peer-reviewed published (or under publication) work of researchers based in the institution (indicatively this comprises articles, monographs, book chapters, reports, conference presentations).
A Repository is one that provides Open Access to scientific results, enables citation through permanent identifiers (DOI or other) and provides qualitative metadata (including acknowledgment of research funding) based on accepted guidelines and standards.
A Researcher is any member of the research/academic/support staff of Rhodes University irrespective of their employment status.
Research Data is the data (such as statistics, results of experiments, measurements, observations, interview recordings, images, etc.) used to validate the results presented in scientific publications.
Self-Archiving refers to the deposit of digital documents on the designated institutional platform by the individual.
(Taken from the RU Open Access Policy document)
Compiled by Denise Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian at Wits
Copyright Guidance
Guidance and information for authors wishing to find out about Open Access archiving
SPARC Author Rights Initiative
"The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles."
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
A convenient summary listing of permissions that are normally given as part of individual publishers’ copyright transfer agreements. From the ROMEO and SHERPA projects in the United Kingdom.
Link to Video Tutorials & User Guide
Our aim is to make publishers' and journals' open access policies transparent and easy to understand. We have created a range of resources to help you get the most out of the service.
Why self-archive to an institutional repository?
Why self-archive to an institutional repository?
Digital repositories function as "storehouses" of publications organized around an institution or discipline.
For example, Rhodes Digital Commons hosts scholarly and creative works, research, publications, and reports contributed by faculty, students, staff, and administrative units of Rhodes University while arXiv.org hosts papers (mainly) in the physical sciences. Content in repositories often includes peer-reviewed content (publisher's version or post-prints) as well as pre-prints, the version of an article before it under went peer review.
Please Note: Rhodes University requires its researchers to deposit in the Rhodes Digital Commons, a digital copy of the full text, as well as the related metadata of all publications (author final manuscript of publisher version) upon acceptance for publication. See the Rhodes Open Access Policy for more information.
Timely
The publication and peer review process can take months if not years. Sometimes research results will prompt important changes before publication occurs. Depositing a pre-print into a repository is one way to share important results without waiting for publication.
Complimentary
Green OA compliments Gold OA by providing authors a way to share their work with others, even if they publish in a journal that is not OA.*
Trustworthy & Stable
Repositories usually have stable sources of funding so works deposited into them remain accessible even if the authors are not. They are also often affiliated with well-known institutions such as universities or government agencies which makes them easy to find.
*There are still publishers who do not support any type of OA, Green or Gold.
Please find the recording here on our website.
Thanks to our panelists for a great discussion. A number of questions were asked during the webinar around the Preprint Citation Index. Please visit our blog article to learn more about how the Preprint Citation Index works on the Web of Science.
If you're interested in learning more about the Web of Science, please get in touch to speak with one of our experts.
To follow up with any of our panelists, please use the following contact information for each preprint repository:
arXiv: help@arxiv.org
ChemRxiv: curator@chemrxiv.org
bioRxiv: bioRxiv@cshl.edu
medRxiv: medRxiv@cshl.edu
Preprints.org: info@preprints.org
If you would like to submit a preprint repository to be evaluated for the Preprint Citation Index, please email details to us. Clarivate is already working on expanding the Preprint Citation Index to cover more repositories which meet the evaluation criteria.
Other Green Route repositories
Other Green Route repositories
The following directories provide information on known repositories from all over the world:
ROARMAP: the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry of policies charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.
openDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories
BASE search engine operated by Bielefeld University Library, is a search engine for academic web resources that harvests metadata from repositories
DSpace Repository: the Association of African Universities (AAU) has implemented a harvester DATAD-R (Database of African Theses and Dissertations and Research) to harvest African Repositories. The collections of 4 communities (AAU Repository, Africa Centre of Excellence Scholarly Output, Research Africa & Theses/Dissertations) are available on the DSpace Repository.
Relevant Open Source Software
Open source software is available to provide online platforms for repositories, ejournals and conferences. Here are a few examples:
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Dveloped at the University of Southampton, EPrints currently provides the repository software for over 250 repositories worldwide.
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishingOpen Journal Systems (OJS)
Developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at the University of British Columbia, OJS is a journal management and publishing system used by over 2000 publications, many of which are open access journals.Open Conference Systems (OCS)
Also developed by PKP, OCS is "a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference".
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