Library Services offers support for open access publishing via two routes - Green and Gold. We are also currently engaged in a number of open access (OA) publishing agreements (in partnership with Jisc). These enable Cardiff Met authors to publish open access without incurring any costs (often known as APCs).
Library Services can support you to make your published work in journals openly available. This can take the form of two routes for articles - Green OA or Gold OA.
Green OA
This involves archiving the accepted manuscript of a journal article - this is the version that has gone through peer review but has not gone through a proof or typesetting stage. This is a recommended approach toward open access publishing as it involves no payment and therefore is available to everyone. Archiving will occur within Pure and accepted manuscipts can be uploaded to the dropoff. Library Services offers a mediated deposit process and will upload to Pure on behalf of authors to ensure checks for REF OA compliance can be completed.
Gold OA
This involves publishing on an open access basis the full version of a journal article - this involves the payment of an article processing charge (APC) and the article being published using a Creative Commons licence. Library Services supports a number of agreements that cover the cost of APCs in full. Gold OA often occurs in what is sometimes called a 'hybrid' journal which has a mixture of closed/paywalled and open access content. There is also the full Gold OA route which means that a journal publishes exlusively open access - our agreements support a mixture of these types of journals but please check the information/list provided carefully.
Get in touch with openresearch@cardiffmet.ac.uk if you have any questions about which open access route to take.
Our staff and students at Cardiff Met benefit from access to excellent resources that underpins their work but often this work is behind paywalls - it is one of the purposes of agreements we have to help change this by providing more research on an open access (OA) basis. The key aim of the OA movement is that anybody should be able to read about research (in this case published as journals articles) that they help to fund as citizens.
OA publishing using APCs can be expensive so we have put in place agreements to help with the costs and administration (it is important to note though that these agreements do not cover other costs that may be associated with publishing such as additional page charges). You will need to be the lead/corresponding author in applicable journals to take advantage of the agreements.
Publishing OA also means staff retain copyright of their own work, students can freely access work (legally) on places like Moodle and the work that people produce at Cardiff Met will remain OA enabling it to reach a wider audience.
It is important to note that Library Services can only cover the publishing costs in journals that are part of an agreement - any costs associated with journals that are not part of these cannot be covered.
Our agreements ensure that authors at Cardiff Met should not face any author facing fees that may be levied for OA publication - the library funds what are often termed Article Processing/Publishing Charges (APCs) on behalf of Cardiff Met Staff. You will need to be the lead/corresponding author in applicable journals to take advantage of the agreements.
The opportunity to publish OA will be offered to Cardiff Met authors during the publication process - most often after the acceptance of an article in a participating journal.
Get in touch with openresearch@cardiffmet.ac.uk if you have any questions about what we offer to support OA publishing.
We have a number of OA publishing agreements in place - this includes the following publishers listed below
Please note that in some cases the entire portfolio of journals from a publisher will not be included in a open access agreement. You can also view a full list of participating journals. Pease check this before proceeding to submission if you wish to publish OA - you can also email openresearch@cardiffmet.ac.uk to confirm eligibility.
View a full list of participating journals (Cardiff Met IT login required)