Scholarly publishing

The version of a manuscript that has been accepted by a publisher for publication.

A fee charged to the author, creator, or institution to cover the cost of an article, rather than charging the potential reader of the article. APCs may apply to both commercial and Open Access publications. APCs are sometimes charged to authors in order to cover the cost of publishing and disseminating an article in an Open Access scholarly journal.

Copyright is a legal form of protection granted to the creators of "original works of authorship." These works can be expressed in various forms, including words, numbers, musical notes, sounds, images, or any other graphic or symbolic media.Copyright law grants the author, editor, compiler, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor the exclusive legal rights to publish, produce, sell, or distribute copies of a literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, or other work, subject to certain limitations such as fair use and first sale.Copyright law also governs the right to create derivative works, reproduce a work or portions of it, and display or perform a work in public. Copyright protection extends to both published and unpublished works.

Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.

Diamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers

The length of time that a publisher stipulates authors must wait before they can make their output available.

OA through journals, regardless of the journal’s business model.

OA through repositories. Also see Gold OA; Repository;

A traditional subscription journal that holds most of the content behind a paywall but makes selected articles available for a fee.

A digital collection of materials that can host work in a variety of formats from book chapters and journal articles to data and presentations.

Rights retention is a new funder-led initiative that supports the self-archiving route to open access. It allows you to publish in a subscription journal (and hybrid journals) and also to make your manuscript available open access through self-deposit. This ensures the widest possible access to your research as well as meeting funder requirements.

Transformative agreements, also referred to as transitional or “read and publish” agreements, are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model.

The final version of a manuscript, after peer review and processing by a publishers.