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Open Access Publishing

This guide provides resources and information about Open Access including an overview, publishing, current Lehman CUNY OA policies, and a glossary.

Open Access Terms

Terms Definitions and Links
APC

Stands for Article Processing Charge. This is a fee that the publisher charges for publishing the article as open access in a journal, unless a transformative agreement is in place that waives this charge. APC's can be covered by universities, grants, and individuals.
Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Licenses "give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.
Copyright

Copyright is a legal protection of expressions that are fixed in tangible media. Copyright describes, for example, an author's right to reproduce a book manuscript, an artist's right to duplicate his painting, or a musician's right to perform an original score.

Source: Peltz. (2009). Copyright. In C. H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Journalism (1st ed.). Sage Publications. https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6MTA5NTMwOA==?summaryArticle=true&aid=106162 
DOI

The trade name for a persistent asset identification scheme for use in digital networks such as the Internet. The identifier in the DOI System is digital, but the asset or object identified by the DOI may be physical, digital, or some other abstract form. The DOI System Web site is www.doi.org.

Source: Doi. (2014). In R. W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms (1st ed.). McFarland. https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6MzUwNjgwNA==?aid=106162
Embargo

An embargo in academic publishing means a publisher of the journal restricts access to the full-text of articles in the most recent issues.  

  • For the most part, embargoes are in effect for 12 months, but it could be longer, sometimes up to 18 months.

  • Embargoes are imposed to protect the publisher's print subscription base.

  • When embargoes are placed, you will still be able to read a brief summary of the article.
Gold Open Access Access refers to cases where the final ‘Version of Record’ of an article is immediately made freely available, under a permissive license that often includes additional re-use rights.
Green Open Access Access refers to cases where an earlier version of a manuscript is made available via an online repository, following an embargo period – this is also sometimes referred to as self-archiving.
Metadata

Data that provides information about other data. In the context of an institutional repository, metadata includes information that describes an individual article or creative work, such as author name, title, and year of publication. 
ORCID A persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that an individual author owns and controls, and that distinguishes that author from every other researcher. ORCID iDs can be connected with an individual's professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. ORCID iD's are free to set up and maintain. For more information visit: https://orcid.org/ 
Institutional Repository  An online repository that allows for the public distribution of scholarly work.  
Pre-Print This is the author's original manuscript which has been submitted to a journal. It has not been peer-reviewed, copy-edited, or formatted with page numbers or branded by the journal. Also called author's manuscript, original manuscript, first draft. (Source: Brock University Library)
Post-Print An article which has undergone peer-review and been revised accordingly. Also known as the accepted author manuscript. (Source: Brock University Library)
Publisher's Final Version An article which has been peer-reviewed, copy-edited, proofread, paginated and fully formatted for publication.(Source: Brock University Library)
Transformative Agreement Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. (Source: Plan S)