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Open access (publishing)

the authors of research papers are not paid in any way, so they do not suffer any monetary losses, when they switch from behind paywall to open access publishing, especially, if they use diamond open access media.

Version
v1 · 2026-09-28 · History
Domain-specific #
11108
Domain group
Professional & Organizational Practice
Origin domain
Library & Information Science
Subdomains
Scholarly Communication, Publishing Models → Library & Information Science

Core Idea

Open access (publishing) is treated here as the recurring computerscienceandinformation identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: the authors of research papers are not paid in any way, so they do not suffer any monetary losses, when they switch from behind paywall to open access publishing, especially, if they use diamond open access media. Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers.

Scope of Application

  • Colour naming system. The most commonly recognised names are "green", "gold", and "hybrid" open access; however, several other models and alternative terms are also used.

  • Hybrid OA. A particularly controversial practice in hybrid open access journals is "double dipping", where both authors and subscribers are charged.

  • FAIR. Note, however, that FAIR principles include "A1.2: The protocol allows for an authentication and authorisation procedure where necessary." This means that a FAIR dataset may be either closed (restricted access).

  • Features. The area of (open) scholarly practices increasingly sees a role for policy-makers and research funders giving focus to issues such as career incentives, research evaluation and business models for publicly funded.

  • Features. Plan S and AmeliCA (Open Knowledge for Latin America) caused a wave of debate in scholarly communication in 2019 and 2020.

Clarity

A clear use of Open access (publishing) names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is the authors of research papers are not paid in any way, so they do not suffer any monetary losses, when they switch from behind paywall to open access publishing, especially, if they use diamond open access media.

Manages Complexity

Open access (publishing) compresses multiple computerscienceandinformation details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—subscription-based publishing typically requires transfer of copyright from authors to the publisher so that the latter can monetise the process via dissemination and reproduction of the work.—and the practical consequence—if the author posts the near-final version of their work after peer review by a journal, the archived version is.

Abstract Reasoning

  1. Type the carrier. Identify the computerscienceandinformation entities to which the claim applies.
  2. State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: the authors of research papers are not paid in any way, so they do not suffer any monetary losses, when they switch from behind paywall to open access publishing, especially, if they use diamond open access media.
  3. Check operation and conditions.

Knowledge Transfer

Within the home domain. Knowledge about Open access (publishing) transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. The most commonly recognised names are "green", "gold", and "hybrid" open access; however, several other models and alternative terms are also used. A particularly controversial practice in hybrid open access journals is "double dipping", where both authors and subscribers are charged. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Open access (publishing).

Neighborhood in Abstraction Space

Open access (publishing) sits in a sparse region of the domain-specific corpus (87th percentile for distinctiveness): few abstractions share its structure, so a faithful description tends to retrieve it precisely.

Family — Unclustered & Miscellaneous (2551 abstractions)

Nearest neighbors

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