Open Access

Open Access is free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

There are two roads to OA:

  1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing, where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all);
  2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

OA self-archiving is not self-publishing; nor is it about online publishing without quality control (peer review); nor is it intended for writings for which the author wishes to be paid, such as books or magazine/newspaper articles. OA self-archiving is for peer-reviewed research, written solely for research impact rather than royalty revenue [Source: Eprints].

OA Repositories in Czech Republic

World’s OA repositories

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Research funders' open access policies

Other free and open i-resources

Useful information

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