Publishing is a major challenge for your research career and for the circulation of your ideas. The Open Access movement can enable you to significantly increase the audience for your publications. It takes two forms:
The green open access route involves researchers depositing their publications in an "open archive." An open archive is a repository where publications from scientific research and teaching are deposited and can be accessed freely and at no cost.
The golden route of open access refers to journals or publications that do not charge readers to access their content. These journals are funded upstream by the institutions that host them.
It is important to consider both of these avenues when developing your publishing strategy.
Open access platforms
Open archive platforms can be institutional, regional (e.g., OpenAIRE for Europe), national (HAL for France), or disciplinary (e.g., RePEC in economics). Several thematic platforms are widely used by researchers from various communities. These include:
Most research institutions and organizations have set up open access platforms for disseminating their scientific output. To find them, you can consult the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) or OpenDoar directories. At the national level, HAL is the repository and dissemination tool: you will find all types of scientific output there (articles, conference papers, theses, research reports, etc.). In 2013, the COMUE Université Grenoble Alpes opened a HAL Université Grenoble Alpes portal and encourages the entire community to deposit and disseminate its scientific output in open access. A support site, Guide-Hal, and a team help you find information on open access and how to deposit in HAL.
Copyright: new rights to register!
New rights to deposit! The Digital Republic Act gives you the right to freely distribute (for example, in HAL) the full text of your articles in their "final version accepted for publication" within a maximum period of six months in the fields of science, technology, and medicine, and twelve months in the humanities and social sciences. For more information:
the tool WillOtool, offered by Liliad- University of Lille 1, which allows you to quickly determine the possibility (or, where applicable, the obligation) to make your publication freely available.
The HAL Université Grenoble Alpes support service is available to assist researchers in submitting their publications to HAL Université Grenoble Alpes. Please do not hesitate to contact them with any legal questions you may have.
Specialized search engines
Scientific search engines have been developed to facilitate searches within these freely accessible academic resources:
Base (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): this search engine provides access to a large number of databases and academic platforms with open-access scientific content: more than 100 million documents from over 5,000 different sources are available.
OpenAire, a European portal that allows users to search over 20 million documents and 500,000 datasets;
Isidore, developed by TGIR Huma-Num, provides access to digital data in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Open access journals
A number of journals are committed to this approach. The golden route, or gold open access, refers to journals or works that are natively open access from the moment they are published.
A number of scientific journals distribute their content in open access, either immediately or after a delay.
Revues.org presents 460 journals in the field of humanities and social sciences.
This diagram presents alternative funding models for these journals and highlights equitable models.
Works in the public domain
It is now possible to access open access books. Directory of Open Access Books presents 8,500 scientific works in all disciplines from 220 different publishers. In France, OpenEdition Books is a platform of 4,600 books in the humanities and social sciences, more than half of which are freely accessible.
Predatory journals
Be vigilant and warn your students about predatory journals!
the researcher pays to publish;
publishers' emails are too flattering or pushy;
the name of the journal does not match its content;
no editor-in-chief is mentioned;
the editorial board does not originate from the discipline in question;
There is a promise of extremely quick proofreading and publication.
This is most likely a solicitation from a predatory journal!
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