Publishing & Author Rights
Resources on academic publishing, author rights, and open access journals and repositories.
Publishing
- Green, Gold, and Diamond Open Access
The Open Access Networks explanation of the major pathways for open access publications.
- Open-Access Papers Draw More Citations from a Broader Readership
By Jeffrey Brainard. In ScienceInsider, January 24, 2024.
- Open Access Research Outputs Receive More Diverse Citations
By Chun-Kai Huang et al. In Scientometrics 129 (January 2024): 825-845.
- Who’s Writing Open Access (OA) Articles?
By Anthony J. Olejniczak and Molly J. Wilson. In Quantitative Science Studies 1 no. 4 (2020): 1429–1450.
Author Rights
- Author Rights
A course unit from the University of British Columbia's Program for Open Scholarship and Education outlining basic concepts in intellectual property ownership. The module on publisher agreements is particularly useful.
- Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum
The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that you can use to modify your copyright transfer agreements with non-open access journal publishers. It allows you to select which individual rights out of the bundle of copyrights you want to keep.
Open Access Directories
- Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language. DOAJ provides information and indexing for more than 22,000 journals.
- Open DOAR
OpenDOAR is a global directory of more than 6,000 open access repositories hosting journal articles, theses, conference proceedings, and other scholarly works.
- Open Policy Finder
Open Policy Finder is a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self-archiving of journal articles on the web and in open access repositories.
