A scientific article is open access when it is available for free, without barriers derived from intellectual property and permanently on the Internet.
A scientific article is open access when it is available for free, without barriers derived from intellectual property and permanently on the Internet.
Open Access or Open Access facilitates free access to scientific or academic production, without economic barriers or restrictions derived from intellectual property rights. It encompasses scientific articles, research data, learning objects and academic work in general.
La Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) understands for open access articles with free availability in the network, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or use for any legal purpose, without any means of economic, legal or technical barrier.
Other declarations and initiatives on open access:
That an article or academic work can be consulted for free on the web does not mean that it can be used without restriction. Only the work can be used in accordance with the Intellectual Property Law (private copies, appointment rights ...), but no other use can be made without the authorization of the author or holder of the rights of exploitation
However, a free access article has a license assigned Creative Commons which indicates under what conditions it can be used.
To achieve open access to scientific communication, 2 routes are promoted:
The green route or self-archiving in a tank
Self-archive articles in institutional repositories such as UPCommons or in thematic deposits like ArXiv to make them accessible to the network and to be able to reuse them. Always respect the conditions established by the magazine where the article is published, basically:
If not, consult editorial policies and auto-editing conditions of each publisher to find out what uses permit their publications.
The golden path or the open access magazines
These journals ensure open access to articles they publish without charging subscription for access. The publication costs are covered by the authors or institutions to which they belong. Make sure the cost of publishing can be attributed to a research project. Check the directories of open access journals or publishers to publish on open.
The UPC supports this international movement with the institutional repository UPCommons and the regulations approved by the Governing Council:
To meet the requirements of these mandates, you must post the article to UPCommons as soon as possible and, in no case, later than the established period:
In the process of publishing an article:
When the article has been published in the magazine:
When submitting project tracking reports:
Auto-editing conditions of the main publishers:
The following directories summarize the uses allowed in each journal when it comes to self-archiving.
Here you will find a list of the main publishers that publish magazines totally in open access and the prices to publish the articles. The price may vary according to the title of the magazine:
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Elsevier
Emerald
IEEE
MDPI
Nature Publishing Group
OmniaScience
Knight
Wiley
The authors or their institutions pay a fee for their articles to be published on the open, the rest are only available for subscribed users. This is what is called the hybrid model.
Some publishers like IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) have a closed list of magazines with this option. Others, like the Royal Society of Chemistry, have the option to eliminate restricted access to articles in all their magazines. Check what publishers you can publish and how much it costs.
Check the grants to post openly.
As members of the UPC, you have the following grants to publish in open access:
Royal Society of Chemistry (CSR)
During the 2019 the authors of the UPC have an 15% discount on the publication of articles in the journals of the publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (CSR).
SCOAP3
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is an international project led by CERN whose objective is to open prestigious journals of high-energy physics open access at no cost to the authors.
The cost of publishing is assumed by each participating country in proportion to its scientific output. The articles are published in SCOAP3 and in the publishers' websites.
The magazines included are:
MDPI
The authors of the UPC have an 10% discount on the publication of articles in the magazines of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). All magazines are open access, have peer-reviewed and indexed in DOAJ. In addition, the vast majority have an impact factor and are present at Scopus.
Some of the titles you can find are:
El price to publish It varies depending on the age of the magazine, with an average cost of 700 €, although some titles allow the publication at no cost to the author.
Post in magazines edited by UPC
A UPCommons You can check all the articles of the magazines published in open access by different units of the UPC. For the editing and publication process some use the magazine service of the UPC and the Open Journal System (OJS) software.
All of them are polytechnical and some are empty in the most prestigious international indexes, such as:
The regulations for the open publication of projects financed by the European Commission are included in the Manual of the H2020.
You will also find information at:
OpenAire Guides for researchers:
OpenAire guides for coordinators and project managers
Following the open access institutional policy of the UPC (PAR points) and through UPCommons, you meet this requirement.
