What is the Gold route (Gold OA)?
The Gold Roadroute (Gold OA) refers to articles that are freely accessible immediately at the immediatetime Open Accessof publication.
This is possible either through purely Open Access journals,journals or by agreement with the publisherpublisher's agreement for books.
- The Directory of
Open AccessOA Journals (DOAJislistsathecommunity-curatedvariousonlineGolddirectoryOA journals thatindexesmeetandscholarlyprovidespublishingaccess to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.standards; - The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB
academic, peer reviewed Open Accessacademic books. OpenEdition is another platform for Open AccessBookbooks,platform mainly for booksprimarily in French. Both are excellent sourcestoforget to know theidentifying publisherswhothat already publishbooksin Open Access.
Works
Open Access works published via the Gold road are usuallyoften protected by an open licence, such as Creative Commons .licence.
AcademicScientific publishing is not free. The Gold Open Accessroute shifts the financial flow towards the editorcosts from the reader to the author. Therefore, Gold Open AccessOA is therefore an "author author-pays" modemodel and often (althoughinvolves notthe always!)payment implies payingof article processing charges (APC) orfor articles, and book processing charges (BPC). for books. APC and BPC offees for purely Gold OA publications arising from research projects it funds are covered by the SNSF and, according to certain criteria, may be covered by UNIL's Gold Open Access is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.Fund.