Overview
Open Access (OA) refers to free access to scientific publications on the Internet. The movement is supported by research organisations and universities around the world, along with the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.
What is Open Access?
All roads lead to ... OA!
There are several ways to publish for Open Access:
- The green road refers to the traditional route of publishing literature in a publishing house and then secondary publication (i.e., self-archiving) in a repository afterwards. Secondary publication usually takes place after an embargo period of 6 to 12 months.
- The gold road is the name for all works that are published directly in OA. In this case, authors incur a publication fee.
Strategies and guidelines
International demands
The following international statements form the basis for the Open Access movement. Many other guidelines and strategies refer to them as well.
Budapest Open Access Initiative 2001
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 2003
Plan S 2018
National open access strategies
swissuniversities (Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences) aims to make «scientific knowledge immediately available in a machine-readable format, free of charge and without embargo» by 2032.
The guidelines of the Swiss National Science Foundation support this objective.
Publication support
Members of the UAS Grisons have several options for publishing their publications at a reduced rate or free of charge via the green or gold route.
UAS Grisons Repository
The UAS Grisons repository documents and showcases publications by members of the UAS Grisons and, where available, links them to related projects. It offers the interested public centralised access to research results, theses and much more.
«Read & Publish» contracts
The UAS Grisons is part of the university consortium that negotiates new contracts with scientific publishing houses on an annual basis. A list of all contracts and conditions is available in the research bar.
Projects financed by the SNSF
If a research project is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the related works must be published for Open Access. All details and related information are available on the OA website of the SNSF.
Helpful links
Here you will find a collection of related links that will help you to publish or research for Open Access. Further links are available in the respective sub-areas of the Info Corner or directly in the research bar.
Research
Publish
Infocorner
Here you will find a collection of further resources on the topic of Open Access publishing, divided into three subsections.
Rights and licenses
If OA is published, care must be taken that no rights are infringed and which licenses are granted. You can find information on this here.
Quality control and predatory publishing
How can the quality of a journal be determined? What is predatory publishing? You can find answers and further information here.
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