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Diamond Open Access refers to publications and publication platforms that can be read free of charge by all interested parties worldwide and for which no costs are incurred by the authors. Diamond OA is the simplest and fairest form of OA for everyone involved, as no one is prevented from participating in scientific discourse by payment barriers.
The Wikipedia article provides detailed information on the topic.
Information on CC licenses can be found on the following page.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a directory of open access journals founded in 2003 at the University of Lund in Sweden. To be included, journals must fulfill various requirements such as suitable quality assurance procedures and immediate open access without an embargo period.
A list of journals that have been added to or removed from the DOAJ can be found here.
The term Gold Open Access is used for Open Access first publications in journals, as monographs or as contributions to edited volumes. The quality assurance process is usually the same as for closed access publications. Detailed information can be found on the open access network website.
The green route (also known as self-archiving) refers to secondary publication on institutional or disciplinary repositories, sometimes also on the author's website. There is an illustrative graphic on the topic on the open access network website.
The Open Policy Finder is a helpful tool that lists journal policies regarding secondary publication.
Predatory publishing means something like "predatory publishing". Predatory journals are journals that use aggressive advertising and a supposedly professional appearance to encourage scientific authors to publish articles in return for payment of a publication fee, but organize no or only inadequate quality assurance measures.
The Helmholtz Open Science Office has compiled a FAQ on the topic: https://doi.org/10.2312/os.helmholtz.020
For some time now, the major academic publishers have been fundamentally changing their business model, with significant consequences for the sciences: Aggregation and the reuse or resale of user traces are becoming relevant aspects of publishing activities. Some publishers now see themselves explicitly as information analysis companies. The business model of publishers is thus changing from content providers to a data analytics business. The data of scientists (i.e. personalized profiles, access and usage data, time spent at information sources, etc.) are tracked, i.e. recorded and stored, when using information services such as literature research(https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/174922/5b903b1d487991f2d978e3a308794b4c/datentracking-papier-de-data.pdf).
Many publishers offer you as a scientist the opportunity to publish your publications in advance as a preprint or in parallel as a postprint.
You can find help and details regarding legal requirements on the Internet under Journal Policies - Self-Archiving Policy By Journal (EPrints).
The Sherpa project describes and evaluates publishers and their license agreements. Authors are often granted the right by the publisher to make the author's version of their article freely accessible on an "institutional repository".
The publication server of Clausthal University of Technology offers you a suitable platform for this so-called "self-archiving".
Details on legal issues can be found on the information platform Open Access at Legal Issues.
What should you as an author pay attention to in the future?
- When concluding a publishing contract, check the clauses on copyrights and licenses.
- Check how the availability of electronic editions is to be handled.
If you want to offer your publications via the TUC publication server, please also note the information on our publication server.
Existing initiatives: