There are many terms associated with Open Access that describe different levels of openness. This post can be used to clarify what some of these terms mean.
Green Open Access- a subscription journal that allows self archiving of pre-prints or post-prints in repositories. Ex. Advanced Engineering Informatics
Gold Open Access - a journal with fully accessible open access articles made possible under the model which an article publication fee is paid by the author, institution, or a third party. Ex. PLOS ONE, Journal of Physics Communications
Hybrid Open Access - a subscription journal that gives the option of making an article open access to readers with a fee paid for by the author or author's institutions (author processing fee). Not all articles in these journals are Open Access. Ex. International Journal of Automation and Computing, Algorithmica
pre-print - author's copy of an article before it's been reviewed by a publisher.
post-print - author's copy of an article after it's been reviewed and corrected by a publisher, but before it has been formatted for publication or post-reviewed.
If you want to give an article Green Open Access but are not sure if the publisher allows it, use the SHERPA/RoMEO database to find out. If you would like to publish a pre-print or post-print, you can use Illinois Tech's institutional repository which is managed by Galvin Library.
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