Publishing Your Work Open Access
There are several options for publishing a journal article Open Access:
- Publish an article in a fully open-access journal, or Gold Open Access
- Publish an article in a subscription journal, and pay a fee to make it open access, or Hybrid Open Access
- Publish an article in a subscription journal, and share an Open Access version of the article elsewhere, or Green Open Access
Published in a journal that isn't Gold Open Access? Check Sherpa/RoMEO for your publisher's Green Open Access (self-archiving) policy:
- Sherpa/RoMEOA tool that allows users to look up publishers' policies regarding copyright and self-archiving.
Find Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access JournalsLinks to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Organized by subject.
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers AssociationInformation from a coalition of open access publishers.
- Society Publishers with Open Access JournalsA Google spreadsheet that is maintained by scholars and open access advocates.
- Radical Open AccessFormed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects.
Open Access and Funder Compliance
- SPARC Data Sharing Comparison ToolA community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding current and future U.S. federal funder requirements for sharing research articles and research data.
Predatory Publishers
A predatory publisher exploits the gold open access model in order to gain a profit from authors' fees. In addition, predatory publishers frequently do not adhere to academic standards, such as rigorous peer review, during the publication process. Many are not transparent about their operations and use official sounding names in order to recruit authors.
If you are unsure about the quality of an open access journal in your discipline, please contact your subject liaison.
- Think. Check. Submit.
Suggestions and checklist for choosing and evaluating journals