Definitions of common terms
| Author's Accepted Manuscript (AAM) | The final author-created version of the manuscript, which includes any changes made after peer-review and has been accepted for publication by the journal. |
| Article Processing or Publishing Charge (APC) | The fee the author pays for publishing the article open access. |
| cOAlition S and Plan S | An international consortium of research funding and performing organisations and an initiative for open access publishing. |
| Corresponding author | The author who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the entire publication process. |
| Creative Commons license | An open license stating what others are allowed to do with a published article. |
| Diamond open access | Journals (or platforms) where there is no publishing charge and where all content is freely available to read. Sometimes also called Platinum open access. |
| Embargo period | The time period that an article is locked behind a paywall and only can be read by subscribers. |
| Green open access | The self-archiving of articles; the publishing of a version of the article in an open archive (often only allowed after an embargo period). |
| Gold open access | Publishing in a fully open and freely available journal where everything is free to read for everyone. |
| Hybrid journal | A journal that is a subscription journal (behind paywall) but where some articles are published open access (financed through APC:s). Also called hybrid publishing. |
| Open access journal | A journal where all articles are freely available for all to read, usually financed through APC's. Also called gold journals or gold publishing. |
| Pre-print archive | An online archive containing a version of scientific articles that has not been peer reviewed or accepted for publishing in a scientific journal. One example is arXiv.org. |
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Last updated: 2023-01-23