Hannah Payne Repository Support Officer

 Budapest Open Access Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative ◦ ‘the free availability of material on the public internet, permitting any users to link to, read and use the full texts of that material, for any lawful purpose, without barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.’

 Research publicly funded but not publicly available  OA archiving and/ or publishing mandated by funders ◦

 Green OA ◦ Deposit of pre-print or post-print of accepted paper for publishing within a repository.  Gold OA ◦ Published version openly available via publisher’s website

 Paid option available through traditional subscription publishers  OA Publishers ◦ Public Library of Science (PLoS) Public Library of Science (PLoS) ◦ BioMed Central (BMC) BioMed Central (BMC)

Copyright transferred Pay to access Access institution subscription

Copyright retained Free to access *Pay to publish on academic’s behalf Pay to publish* Free to access

 OA publishing is peer reviewed  OA publishing is not vanity publishing  OA journals still provide esteem publishing  Copyright in papers remains with author  Green OA allowed with Gold OA

 Overall OA summary:  Budapest Open Access Initiative:  SHERPA Juliet- Funder’s OA policies:  SHERPA RoMEO- Publishers Web deposit policies: