What is gold open access in Elsevier?

In the gold open access model, you pay an article publishing charge (APC), making your article immediately, permanently and freely available for anyone to access, read and build on. In many cases, your institution or research funder will pay the APC on your behalf.

What is the difference between open access and gold open access?

A reference to the gold route often implies that an author has published an article in an open access journal. True open access journals allow all of their content to be available without barriers to access. They often charge author fees to cover the costs of the publishing process.

What is the gold model of open access?

The gold open access model provides full open access to VoR for an APC paid for by the author, funder, or institution. The final published VoR is immediately open on the publisher's site, and the publisher may also assist the author in depositing the VoR in a repository.

Is gold open access good?

Overall, gold OA has the key advantage of making publications freely accessible right from the moment they are first published, which means they can be used immediately. The author still retains the rights to their work.

What are the disadvantages of gold open access?

With gold OA, you can freely share your article, and anyone (with an internet connection) can access your work for free. Disadvantages: Gold OA is expensive. Gold OA typically requires an article processing charge (up to $4000) to be paid to the journal publisher upon acceptance of your manuscript.

Publishing Open Access with Elsevier

How much is gold open access?

Our standard APC for 2023 is £2,110 / US $3,255 (plus any applicable taxes). Some of our journals charge lower APCs – or do not charge APCs at all – often as part of a specific arrangement with a publishing partner.

What is the difference between gold and diamond open access?

There are other terms that are sometimes used to categorise open access that might be useful to know. Diamond (also known as platinum) refers to gold open access without fees. It is typically used by publishers who are keen to emphasise that they do not charge authors to publish open access.

Do authors benefit from open access?

Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits by removing barriers to your work. Therefore driving forward the opportunity for global recognition, invention and and innovation.

What is the difference between gold open access and subscription?

Open or subscription access depends on what license the author chooses:Open Access: Authors, funders, countries, or institutions pay an APC. Subscription: Libraries, other institutions, companies, individuals. Who holds the copyright? The authors via a Creative Commons license.

Is gold open access free?

Gold open access - Gold OA makes the final version of an article freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Copyright for the article is retained by the authors and most of the permission barriers are removed.

Why is gold open access?

The advantage to gold open access is that it makes the published work available immediately. The author can share it, and anyone with an internet connection can access it for free.

How do you identify a predatory journal gold in open access?

How do you identify a predatory journal?

Is Elsevier open access?

Elsevier is one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,800 journals now enable open access publishing, including 760+ journals which are fully open access journals.

What is open access gold vs green?

There are two main routes to making research outputs openly accessible. One involves publishing articles or books via the OA route on a publisher's platform (often referred to as gold open access). The other involves archiving a version of the manuscript in an OA repository (often described as green open access).

How do I know if a journal is open access?

Search for the article using Google, Scopus or Web of Science and see if the term 'Open Access' is listed in the database or displayed on the article located on the journal's website.

What is the difference between subscription and open access on Elsevier?

Subscription articles funded by payments for reading made by subscribing individuals or institutions. Open access articles funded by payments for publishing made by authors, their institution or funding bodies, commonly known as Article Publishing Charges (APCs)

Is Elsevier free to publish?

No author's fee for most of Elsevier's journals

Corresponding authors of Dutch universities or Dutch university medical centers can publish open access in most Elsevier journals at no extra cost. To see if a journal is included in this deal, check the Open Access Journal Browser.

Is it better to publish open access or subscription?

Open Access (OA) publications reduce permission requirements and eliminate price barriers for readers. OA allows access for researchers, teachers, journalists, policy makers and the general public without a subscription. Many studies demonstrate that OA literature receives more citations than subscription publications.

What are the disadvantages of open access?

What are the cons of open access journals?

OA journals have a disadvantage due to misguided perceptions of quality. Researchers and readers are hesitant to publish in or consider OA journals because they question the quality of the published work. In science and medicine, the reputation of a journal is based on the impact factor ranking system.

Is it good to publish in open access journals?

Benefits greater science and society

OA publishing benefits society by removing the barriers between research and the general public. OA research can reach and empower learners and research communities in developing countries, as well as independent researchers and innovative businesses worldwide.

What are the two models of journal access?

Delayed Open Access – refers to scholarly articles in subscription journals made available openly on the web directly through the publisher at the expiry of a set embargo period. Hybrid – a subscription journal which allows authors to make their papers Open Access.

How many Diamond Open Access journals are there?

According to the study commissioned by cOAlition S in 2021, there are over 29,000 diamond open access journals worldwide. Together, these journals publish 44% of the total open access content and 8–9% of the total number of scholarly articles.

What is the meaning of black open access?

Free access to paid scientific articles. “Black” refers to the various methods through which scientific articles or other content are shared illegally.