(Please note, some of the links below refer to Swedish pages)

Here you will find information about Open Access - what the concept implies, guidelines and the basic approach for you as a researcher to fulfill the demands for scholarly publishing.

There are mainly two ways of publishing your results in accordance with Open Access:

1. Via so called self-archiving of an article in a traditional journal in an archive at the university. At Umeå University this means that you upload a copy of the article to DiVA. The individual researcher can upload the article copy at the same time as registering it in DiVA or do so at a later date. When the article is uploaded to DiVA it will not immediately become visible on the web site, as the team in charge of DiVA at UB must approve of the publishing first. UB checks the policy of the journal in question (if OA publishing is allowed, which version is recommended, if there is any embargo period demands etc.) and will also add a standardized fly-leaf with information on the original publishing and the open access policy of the publishing house.
    
2. In an Open Access journal. There are more than 4 000 Open Access journals in the world using peer review as a quality measuring tool.

About Open Access Vetenskapsrådets demand for free access to research results OASIS Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook Sherpa/Juliet showing research funders with demands or recommendations on how to make publications freely available via open access archives. 

Films and Manuals

Open Access - seminarier om Open Access Open Access - the future of scholarly publishing Open Access - vad är det?