What is Gold Open Access?
The Gold Road refers to the immediate Open Access publication.
This is possible either through purely Open Access journals, or by agreement with the publisher for books.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
- The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB ) lists academic, peer reviewed Open Access books. OpenEdition is another Open Access Book platform mainly for books in French. Both are excellent sources to get to know the publishers who already publish books in Open Access.
Open Access works published via the Gold road are usually protected by an open licence, such as Creative Commons .
Academic publishing is not free. Gold Open Access shifts the financial flow towards the editor from the reader to the author. Therefore, Gold Open Access is an "author pays" mode and often (although not always!) implies paying article processing charges (APC) or book processing charges (BPC). APC and BPC of purely Gold Open Access is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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