Informationsplattform Open Access: Open Access Strategies

Open access publishing – also known as gold open access – refers to the first publication of scholarly works as articles in open access journals, as open access monographs, or as contributions to collections or conference proceedings. These texts usually undergo the same quality assurance process as closed access works, mostly in the form of peer review or editorial review. As a rule, a publishing agreement is concluded with the publisher. It specifies the rights of use that the author grants to the publisher, and the conditions of use that shall apply to the open access documents. Such agreements are often supplemented with an open access publication licence under which the authors can grant users more extensive and precisely specified rights.