What is Open Access?

Open access (OA) is the free, unrestricted online access to the results of scholarly research. Long popular in the Information sciences, OA is now increasingly available in the Mathematics.

OA is made available in two ways:

Gold open access

• OA article is freely available on the publisher’s platform.
• OA article is the version of record, i.e. publisher’s typeset PDF.
• Article is made open access immediately on publication.
• Usually associated with an Article Processing Charge.
• Re-use rights can be permissive.
• Driven by the Publisher.

Green open access

• Article is made freely available, but somewhere other than the publisher’s website, e.g. in a subject or university repository, or the author’s homepage.
• OA article is not necessarily the version of record – it could be the typeset PDF or the author’s final version after peer review but before typesetting.
• Open access may be subject to an embargo period.
• Rights/re-use may be limited.
• Can be driven by the author.

What is Scitech Open?

Scitech Open offers authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Scitech journal articles, monographs and Scitech Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon publication.

For our journals, Scitech Open offers authors of accepted papers the choice to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) in order for their article to be made available to non-subscribers immediately upon publication.

Scitech open access journals which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles for education purposes in Scitech journals.