Open Access
What is Open Access?
Open Access means free online access to research literature, mainly to publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, without copyright restrictions imposed by publishers.
Why Open Access?
Any kind of research is based on previous work and, therefore, depends on the availability of scientific knowledge, information and data created by this work. Access to the output of research is, therefore, essential for science and for progress in society in general.
Laserlab-Europe scientists are obliged to provide open access to publications resulting from their research carried out in the context of Laserlab-Europe. We also encourage users who benefitted from Laserlab-funded transnational access to publish their results with open access.
How to provide Open Access?
'Green' open access: Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article (e.g. preprint) for free use in an institutional or other open access repository or on an open access website.
'Gold' open acces: Authors publish in open access journals that provide open access to all articles, usually on the publisher's website.
Hybrid open access: Authors publish in subscription journals that provide 'gold' open access for individual articles when the author(s) pay(s) an open access publishing fee.
Please, check your rights for reusing your paper before publishing! For guidance, see www.openaire.eu/research-data-and-legal-issues.
Open Access links
- Open Research Europe, an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and/or Euratom funding across all subject areas. The platform allows beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion.
- EC Open Access Guide for Horizon 2020
- OpenAIRE webpage (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe; provides, e.g., model letters/amendments to publishing agreements)
- OpenAIRE: Open Science in Horizon Europe Proposals
- OpenAIRE: Open Science Requirements in Horizon Europe in Practice
- Webinar on 'Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in Practice' (slides and recording regularly updated)
- OpenAIRE: Factsheet for Researchers (Horizon 2020)
- Open-access.net, an information platform with details for different scientific disciplines
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Search Engine for quality Open Access Journals
- Sherpa/Romeo, information on publisher copyright policies and self-archiving