What is the Green route (Green OA)?

The Green route is the publication model used when there is no publishing agreement with a hybrid journal, or when a subscription journal offers no Open Access publication option at all. Publishing in Open Access in this type of journal implies paying both for the publication and for access to the rest of the journal. This is called "double dipping" and is not tolerated by the institution.

This type of publication consists, according to the publisher's criteria, of sharing the final version of one's manuscript (peer-reviewed, but before typesetting by the journal) in an open repository such as your institutional repository IRIS or a discipline-based repository. This is also referred to as self-archiving.

The final accepted version of an article is called either the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) or the post-print.

The Open Policy Finder website lists the conditions set by a large number of journals for sharing this manuscript.

Since the final version of your article will be published in a closed format on the publisher's website, Green route publication cannot be considered genuine Open Access. The content of your article will certainly be accessible via repositories, but copyright generally remains with the journal's publisher under standard copyright. This type of publication therefore does not comply with current Open Access policies (author rights retention, CC-BY licence).