1. Open Access The Basic Terms Ozden Sahin Repository Coordinator Goldsmiths Research Online

2. What is open access? Open access can be defined as free, unrestricted online access to scholarly research material.

3. “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.

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

5. HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England RCUK Research Councils UK would like you to make your work open access for the next REF Research Excellence Framework assessment.

6. How can you make your research outputs open access? There are two ways.

7. 1) Gold Open Access Paid open access. Open access journal publications. 2) Green Open Access Open access via an institutional repository.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. What are your next steps as a researcher? My paper is accepted to an academic journal/ conference proceedings. * Have money for Open Access? Yes No Make it Gold OA Deposit your AAM to GRO via your funder or institution. within 3 months of acceptance date. (as of April 2016)

11. Have questions? Get in touch. gro@gold.ac.uk openaccess@gold.ac.uk

12. Follow our Open Access week activities. #OAWeek2014