Open Access Publishing @ TU: Home

Open Access is a publishing model that provides access to scholarship and research free from subscriptions or paywalls. 

The foundations of Open Access were delineated by:

• Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002)
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 2003)
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (October 2003)

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Full Gold Open Access

• The final version of an article is freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication.
• No subscription fees are charged for any part of the journal.
• Authors pay “article processing charges”.

Hybrid Open Access

• Offers authors the option of making their articles open access for a fee.
• Journals that offer hybrid OA are still subscription journals with an open access option for individual articles.
• Authors pay article processing charges.

Green Open Access

• A version of the author’s manuscript is made available in a repository. It may be the pre-print or author’s final peer reviewed accepted manuscript
• There is usually an embargo period (often 12 months)
• No article processing charges are paid.