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• Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives.
  http://sparcopen.org/open-access
• The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

• Researchers and their institutions benefit from having the widest possible audience.
• Research benefits when the latest techniques can be easily used.
• Funders invest in research to advance human knowledge and ultimately improve lives.
• Even the best ideas remain just that until they are shared, until they can be utilised by others.

[Source] https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-access/oa-benefits/

• Green Open Access (Self-archiving) – Green OA is the practice of placing a version of an author’s manuscript into a repository, making it freely accessible for everyone. (UNIST Library’s IR ScholarWorks@UNIST)
• Gold Open Access (OA Article) – Gold OA makes the final version of an article freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Gold OA articles can be published either in fully OA journals (where all the content is published OA) or hybrid journals (a subscription-based journal that offers an OA option which authors can chose if they wish). (http://www.springer.com/)

Article Processing Charge, also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access in either an open access journal or hybrid journal.

Hybrid open access refers to a publishing model in which subscription-based journals allow authors to make individual articles gold open access immediately on payment of an article publication charge.

[Source] https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/what-is-a-hybrid-open-access-journal/

SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis. RoMEO is a Jisc service and has collaborative relationships with many international partners, who contribute time and effort to developing and maintaining the service.

Go to Sherpa/RoMEO

Journal or Publisher Search

RoMEO colours

• Green – can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF
• Blue – can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher’s version/PDF
• Yellow – can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
• White – archiving not formally supported

If you cannot access an article that is not available in the UNIST Library and you need to pay for it, please find an OA version of articles.

You can easily check and find the OA articles.

• Helps you get to your full-text PDFs faster by securely connecting you to the Library’s journal subscriptions and open access content.
  Access millions of research paper PDFs in one click on Web of Science, Meta, PubMed, arXiv, Scopus and thousands more academic websites;
• Integrates with Mendeley, EndNote, Dropbox and Zotero;
• How to use: Install the Google extension program.
  (▶ Shortcut: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kopernio-powered-by-web-o/fjgncogppolhfdpijihbpfmeohpaadpc?hl=ko)
• How to check OA articles: The button is on the left side of the page. If the ‘Open Access’ box is checked, it is an OA article.

• Points you to legal, author-posted manuscripts that are hosted on university and government web servers;
• Unable to search the Library’s journal subscription and open access content;
• How to use: Install the Google extension program.
  (▶ Shortcut: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha?hl=ko)

• Access to Unpaywall: http://unpaywall.org/
• Click the ‘Get the extension’ button
• How to check OA articles: On the right side of page, you can find the lock. You can check the availability through the lock’s color.
  • Gold: Free articles (Open access contents posted in open access journals or hybrid journals.)
  • Green: Free articles (Author-posted manuscripts that hosted on university and government web servers.)
  • Bronze: Articles that are currently available free of charge on the journals or publishers’ website. Those articles are originally subscription journals, so the publisher can stop the publications being freely available at any time.
  • Gray: Articles that are posted in subscription journals. If you want to use these articles, you need to pay for it.

• Based on ‘Unpaywall’ data, you can check and look for open access articles including in Korean journals.
• How to use: Install the Google extension program.
  (▶ Shortcut: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/koar/gbhjmfnpmdppjpiiohfjdjgbenckhked?hl=ko)
• How to check OA articles: On the right side of the page, you can find the lock. You can check the availability through the lock’s color.
  • Gold: Free articles (Open access contents posted in open access journals or hybrid journals.)
  • Green: Free articles (Author-posted manuscripts that hosted on university and government web servers.)
  • Bronze: Articles that are currently available free of charge on the journals or publishers’ website. Those articles are originally subscription journals, so the publisher can stop the publications being freely available at any time.
  • Gray: Articles that are posted in subscription journals. If you want to use these articles, you need to pay for it.