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Self-Archiving and Open Access Repositories: Authors can self-archive their work by uploading a copy of their manuscript to a personal website or depositing a copy in an open repository. Open access repositories are digital platforms that provide free access to scholarly publications, research data, and other academic resources. They allow authors to make their work openly accessible to the public, without the traditional barriers of cost and subscription fees. They can be discipline-specific or multi-disciplinary, and can be managed by academic institutions, scholarly societies, or commercial entities. See, for example, OpenDOAR for a list of open access repositories, searchable by locale, content, and other measures.
Open Access Publishers: Many publishers, of both books and journals, offer some or all of their content open access. Some publishers charge authors fees to cover the costs of publishing and making the content freely available, while others may not charge fees but instead rely on other sources of funding. There are a number of factors to consider when choosing a publisher including your rights as an author, the peer-review process, submission guidelines, archiving and preservation practices, and visibility and impact.
Scholarly Networking Sites: These are online platforms that allow researchers, scholars, and academics to connect, collaborate, and share their research and expertise with others in their field. Some of these sites, like ResearchGate and Academia.edu, though ostensibly free, are run by for-profit companies who may or may not sell your private data. As such, sharing your work on their sites may be a violation of your publication agreement. Others sites, such as Humanities Commons or ScholarlyHub, are nonprofit groups run by and for scholars. In addition, many of these nonprofit organizations have an explicit mission to support the open dissemination of scholarship through open access.
To help find the right publishing platform for you, consider the checklist and other resources provided by Think. Check. Submit.
What happens to my copyrights for my own published work? Every publisher has different policies in regards to self-archiving and your subsequent use of your published work. The SHERPA/RoMEO database provides a searchable collection of publisher policies--check here when deciding where to publish.
Run by Jisc in the UK, Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyzes publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
Users of Sherpa Romeo can look-up a journal by name, ISSN, or publisher name.
Sherpa Romeo Records will inform you what an author can do with the Publisher Version (PDF), Accepted Version (Author’s Accepted Manuscript) or the Submitted Version (Original Manuscript).
Authors can also reach out to David Scherer for assistance in reviewing their author rights and publisher sharing/depositing policies.
Additional Resources provided by Sherpa Romeo
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