Open access
Open Access refers to research that is free, accessible, and has minimal copyright restrictions. Different initiatives have different definitions, but the definition elaborated in Plan S, adopted by the Research Council, among others, is that all supported research should be:
Openly accessible (AAM, VoR)
Immediately accessible (No embargo)
Reusable (CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-SA, or CC0)
Research and research data that are openly accessible have a greater chance of being read and verified. A freely available publication can reach more readers than if it is published behind a paywall. Publications that are the results of projects funded by the RCN or the EU must be published Open Access.
Publishing agreement
Currently, NLA has a publishing agreement with Taylor & Francis, which allows researchers to publish in selected journals published by them
Copyright and creative commons licenses?
There are a number of licenses that regulate the use and distribution of your work, even if it is open access. Often these will be determined in the publishing agreement. You can find the licenses on this list:
Licenses List - Creative Commons
Do you want to publish Open Access?
Here are some points to help you in the process:
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Check Kanalregisteret for journals with Taylor and Francis as publisher. If you already have a journal you want to publish for, you can search for it directly. NLA has a publishing agreement with Taylor and Francis that allows us to publish in a number of their journals at no extra cost.
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If NLA does not have a publishing agreement with the journal you want to publish in, but the journal is in Directory of Open Access Journals, you can apply for publishing funds from the FoU committee /v pro-rector for research. Applications are assessed on an ongoing basis.
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If the journal is not in DOAJ, and we do not have a publishing agreement with them, a number of journals allow you to publish Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in NVA. Check your publishing agreement for the terms that apply to self-publishing.
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Rights Retention document.
If you wish to retain the rights to publish VoR or AAM on your own website or in NVA if the work is not published Open Access, this must be clarified with the journal in advance. If not
Contact information
Questions about open access can be directed to librarian Hans Altmann at NLA Kristiansand. hanalt@nla.no