How Open Is It? Model of Academic Publishing

Defining Open Access For Journals How To Use This Guide This Guide Is A Collaboration Among: Open Access is a means of disseminating scholarly In 2002, the Budapest Open Access Initiative research that breaks from the traditional subscription articulated the basic tenets of Open Access for the How Open Is It? model of academic publishing. It has the potential first time. Since then, thousands of journals have to accelerate greatly the pace of scientific discovery, adopted policies that embrace some or all of the sparcopen.org OPEN ACCESS SPECTRUM encourage innovation and enrich education by Open Access core components related to: readership, VERSION 2.0 reducing barriers to access. Open Access shifts the reuse, copyright, posting, and machine readability. costs of publishing so that readers, practitioners However, not all Open Access is created equal. For and researchers obtain content at no cost. However, example, a policy that allows anyone to read an article plos.org Open Access is not as simple as “articles are free to for free six months after its publication is more open all readers.” Open Access encompasses a range of than a policy that creates a twelve month embargo; components such as readership, reuse, copyright, it is also less open than a policy that allows for free posting, and machine readability. Within these areas, reading immediately upon publication. publishers and funding agencies have adopted many oaspa.org different policies, some of which are more open and This guide will help you move beyond the seemingly some less open. In general, the more a journal’s simple question, “Is this journal Open Access?” and TM policies codify immediate availability and reuse with toward a more productive alternative, “HowOpenIsIt?” as few restrictions as possible, the more open it is.

Journals can be more open or less open, but their Use it to: HowOpenIsIt?® ©2014 Scholarly Publishing and degree of openness is intrinsically independent • Understand the components that define Academic Resources Coalition and from their: Open Access journals Public Library of Science Licensed under CC BY • Impact • Prestige • Quality of Peer Review • Learn what makes a journal more open vs. less open Image attribution: Christian Damasco et al., • Peer Review Methodology • Sustainability • Make informed decisions about where to publish PLOS Computational Biology. 2008. 4(3). • Effect on Tenure & Promotion• Article Quality Licensed under CC BY ACCESS READER RIGHTS REUSE RIGHTS COPYRIGHTS AUTHOR POSTING RIGHTS AUTOMATIC POSTING MACHINE READABILITY ACCESS

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Free and immediate Some reuse rights Author retains/publisher grants Author may post some Journals make copies of some, Article full text, metadata, & readership rights to some, beyond fair use for some, but limited rights for author reuse version (determined by publisher) but not all, articles automatically citations may be crawled with but not all, articles (including not all, articles (including (e.g., of figures in presentations/ to certain repositories or websites, available in trusted third-party permission, with instructions “hybrid” models) “hybrid models”) teaching, creation of derivatives) with or without delays repositories (e.g., PubMed Central, publicly posted OpenAire, institutional) within 12 months Subscription, membership, No reuse rights beyond fair Publisher holds Author may not deposit any No automatic posting in No full text articles pay-per-view, or other fees use/dealing or other limitations copyright, with no author versions to any repositories or third-party repositories available for crawling required to read all articles or exceptions to copyright reuse beyond fair use websites at any time CLOSED CLOSED ACCESS (All Rights Reserved) ACCESS HowOpenIsIt?® © 2014 SPARC and PLOS, licensed under CC BY