A guide to publish articles in Open Access

Material kindly provided by Mathilde Pascal, ILL.

Open Access options

There are two ways to make an article open access:

• Self-archiving (green open access): depositing an article in an online open archive. Before you deposit your article, check the conditions applied by the publisher for self-archiving (embargo periods, etc.).
• Open access publishing (gold open access): making an article directly available in open access on the journal’s website. Most publishers offer this option against payment of article processing charges (APCs).

A list of open access journals in physics, chemistry and materials science is available here.

At the bottom of this page you can download a guide for open access as well as see a flowchart on how to publish in open access.

For EU projects – SINE2020

All scientific peer-reviewed publications resulting from European projects funded through the H2020 programme, like SINE2020, must be available in open access. You can find the European Commission’s guidelines here.

• All peer-reviewed articles must be deposited in a repository at the latest by the moment of publication;
• Self-archived articles must be available in open access within 6 months of publication;
• Gold OA articles must be available in open access at the moment of publication.