Open Scholarship & Scholarly Publishing

Open Scholarship & Scholarly Publishing support provided by the UVA Wise Library brings together the scholarly, research, and creative works of our academic community.

This guide is designed to be a one-stop shop for UVA Wise faculty, students, and researchers interested in Open Scholarship and Scholarly Publishing. It will provide resources and information to help you.

UVA Wise Library acquires, manages, and preserves digital resources so they remain accessible to patrons over the long term. Certain limitations may be placed on access due to legal, donor and/or other reasons, but, in general, in so far as possible, the UVA Wise Library endeavors to make digital resources accessible to all users.

Getting Help

• UVA Wise Library Contact - to get help, schedule a consultation or ask a question:
  • Heather Groves Hannan, arg9ct@uvawise.edu

Understand Open Scholarship: Learn about the benefits and different models of Open Access (OA) publishing.  For more information, see Peter Suber's overview of Open Access or UVA-Charlottesville Library's Open Access Scholarly Publishing 101.

• What is Open Scholarship?
  • Definition and Benefits of Open Access (OA) Publishing: a model for scholarly communication that makes research information available online for free to anyone with an internet connection.  OA publishing is a modern update to research communication that takes advantage of the internet to speed up research dissemination. 
  • Different OA Models (Gold, Green, etc.): 

Green OA publishing refers to the self-archiving of published or pre-publication works for free public use. Authors provide access to preprints or post-prints (with publisher permission) in an institutional or disciplinary archive.

Gold OA publishing refers to works published in an open access journal and accessed via the journal or publisher's website. Examples of Gold OA include PLOS (Public Library of Science) and BioMed Central.

Hybrid OA offer authors the option of making their articles open access, for a fee. Journals that offer hybrid OA are still fundamentally subscription journals with an open access option for individual articles. They are not true open access journals, despite publishers' use of the term "gold open access" to describe this arrangement.

Diamond OA publishing describes journals that are completely free to publish and to read. The cost of maintaining and publishing the journal is usually borne by the organization that sponsors the journal. Diamond OA status has no impact on the journal's peer review process. By making articles completely free to both publish and to read, Diamond OA best approaches the goals of democratizing and widely distributing academic scholarship.

Bronze OA publishing describes articles that are free to read on a publisher's homepage, but without clarity on the specific licenses covering an article. Bronze OA articles may be free to read due to a temporary publisher marketing campaign, for example.

• The Open Access Movement and its Goals: The open-access movement emerged against the backdrop of what is referred to as “the serials crisis” in scholarly publishing.  The dream of unrestricted online access to scholarly journal articles, which became known as the open-access movement, took shape in the early 2000s as scholars, librarians, and funders began to build co-operative networks and platforms.

Adapted from: "Open Access Publishing : What is Open Access?" by Cornell University Library licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Adapted from "Libra: Search & Submit" by University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville.

Adapted from: "Open Scholarship & Scholarly Publishing" by University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Amherst Libraries licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.