Open Access: OA Glossary
OA Glossary
The Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print, is the version with all peer review changes applied, but before any copy-editing, layout or branding has been applied by the publisher.
Author Affiliation refers to the institution the author officially publishes their work under.
A Creative Commons Licence is a licences authors can apply to their work, clearly stating how others are allowed to share and use the work in question.
The Diamond Open Access Route is where works are made open access at the time of publication, and publishers do not apply charges to author or readers.
The Green Open Access Route is where authors publish their research in a journal or publication that charges for readers to access. The author then makes the "author accepted manuscript" (AAM) available on an open access repository.
The Gold Open Access Route is where an author publishes their work in a fully open access or hybrid journal. These articles are made freely available immediately at the point of publication.
Hybrid Journals are publications with a mix of fully open access content and other content behind paywalls.
Open Access (OA) means that electronic scholarly research outputs are made freely available on the web to all, with no or limited license restrictions.
Open Access Publishing Agreements, also known as Transformative Agreements, are financial agreements between publishers and institutions to allow a certain amount of gold open access publishing. An example is the IReL consortium’s OA Publishing agreements, of which, UCD is a member.
An Open Access Repository is an online space where authors can deposit their work and make it freely available to others. Such repositories can be associated with institutions, such as our Research Repository UCD or subject based repositories like Lenus, Ireland’s health research repository.
Open Research (Open Science or Scholarship) is the transparent and accessible sharing of knowledge, including publications, data, methods, code, peer review etc. and making its dissemination freely and accessible to all.
A Pre-Print is the original submitted manuscript, with no edits, peer review, or branding applied.
Rights Retention is when authors publish open access using a CC licence, and avail of the right to retain the copyright of the work. Authors usually retain the right to their author accepted manuscript.
The Version of Record is the final published version, with all edits, peer review and branding applied by the publisher.