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Collection Development Sustainability Task Force: Toolkit: Publishing

Tools for searching and negotiating

Image with some benefits of open access (increased citations, can influence policy, greater ability for researchers in developing countries to access your work)

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If you determine that you want to make more of your research and scholarship available through open access, these tools can help you consider pursuing "Gold OA" or "Green OA".

Green OA

  • The accepted, reviewed (but not yet fully formatted) version of the publication is uploaded to an institutional, disciplinary, or personal repository. 

  • The ability of author to do this is dependent on the contract they have with their publisher. Often this comes at no additional cost but there may be an embargo period.

  • The resource is able to be found via open-web (e.g. Google) searches.

 

Also called “Self-archiving”

Gold OA

  • Published in a fully open access or hybrid journal.

  • Often required the author or sponsoring institution to pay a publication fee.

  • The resource is available openly on the publisher’s website, databases, etc. 

 

Guidelines and Tools to Support Green OA

Guidelines and Tools to Support Gold OA

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a resource for author's seeking to publish in an Open Access journal.  It is also widely used to evaluate the legitimacy of a potential publishing venue.

if you are an editor of a journal, ideas for transitioning a journal to Open Access.

Tips from Harvard on making your work Open. 

Bucknell funding opportunities, including information on the Office of the Provost's Publication Subvention Grants.

Bucknell Digital Commons

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For "Green OA", we encourage you to share your scholarship (and creative expression- check with a faculty member about verbiage!?) to the Bucknell Digital Commons whenever possible. 

Some of the tools to the left allow you to check if you *can* add your past work to the commons or negotiate with journals and publishers to reserve your reproduction rights for to-be-published work. 

Developing your publishing toolkit