Examples of Green OA in a sentence
Started in 2003, Scholars’ Bank, is used to facilitate Green OA (e.g., self-archiving) at the University of Oregon.
Institution-supported journals without APCs and Green OA journals that allow OA posting of a version of an article help remove this barrier.
Support Green Open Access (self-archiving) - immediate or delayed - by authors is permitted under Green OA.
Many non-OA journals allow authors to do so, and this is Green OA.
So long as Green OA relies on voluntary author participation, observed author indifference, confusion, and inertia will serve to prevent full participation.
Green OA models are agnostic about publisher open access behaviors, relying instead on institutions and authors to take steps to make otherwise toll-access works freely available in online repositories that may be (and often are) managed by institutions.3 In essence, successful green open access requires: the right to share a given scholarly output, a copy of it, the motivation to share it, and a location for sharing it (i.e., a repository).
Moving beyond gratis Green OA often makes versions available for free public access, but typically without the use of a public license that would enable reuse (as is considered necessary for “libre OA”).
Some authors may resist depositing their articles in Green OA repositories as they see this duplication as “download dilution,” or may focus only on a single repository of choice in order to bolster potentially valuable metrics—most typically a disciplinary or subject-matter repository.
While a repository alone provides a location for publisher-policy-supported Green OA to take place, it leaves open the question of securing the necessary rights, a copy of the work, and participant motivation.
Green OA sharing is a routine and expected author behavior in many disciplines, an enforced requirement of an increasing number of funders, and widely encouraged through institutional open access policies like UC’s Senate and Presidential policies.