To publish open access (OA) means that research results are published in such a way that they are freely accessible online.

Lund University has a policy on publishing, where researchers are encouraged to publish open access as much as possible in order to increase research visibility, use and impact.
You find the policy in its entirety here: Open access policy for publications and artistic works

Many of the large research funders require that research results be published so that they are freely accessible to everyone. Read up to date information about what's applicable to your situation on the funders respective websites.

Ways to publish open access

Gold open access

To publish gold open access means that the final published version of your article is published in a journal where all articles are openly available and the journal is free and open to everyone.
In most cases, paid for by a so-called Article Processing Charge (APC.

Hybrid open access

A hybrid open access journal is a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open access for a fee. The article is also available in the publisher's subscription journal.

Green open access (Self-archiving)

The majority of research funders allow self-archiving (Green open access) as an alternative to direct OA publishing.

Self-archiving means that a copy of a published work is uploaded in full text in an open archive. Full-text publication of the reviewed, accepted version of an article meets most research funders' requirements for making research results publicly available.

As a researcher at Lund University, you can use LUCRIS to self-archive an article, by uploading a full-text version of your article.

Read more about how to use self-archiving in LUCRIS

Check the publisher's terms and conditions before you self-archive an article. Some publishers may, for example, require an embargo before a version can be made available. It is also common that only the so-called post-print version may be used, i.e. the peer-reviewed article before it has gone through the publisher's setting, layout and pagination.

To find out what applies to your article, you can search for the journal in the Sherpa Romeo database. If you do not find the journal in the database, the information is often available on the publisher's website.

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