Open Access transforms many aspects of scientific publishing. The Szilárd Library supports all EMBL researchers and staff with advisory and training services on Open Access options and publication strategies as well as with further information.
Choosing a CC-BY licence (no NC, ND) is required for all EMBL publications. This enables your work to be fully reusable by other researchers while requiring attribution to your original work. If you have any specific questions or need support on reading licence agreements from publishers, please contact OSIM.
Further information:
- The Open Access Initiative is based on the so-called BBB Declarations of Budapest, Bethesda and Berlin
- The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists Open Access journals that fulfill certain quality criteria
- If you are looking for Open Access repositories, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) might help.
- Sherpa Romeo is searchable database of information concerning publisher and journal open access policies.
- Sherpa Juliet is a searchable database of information concerning research funders’ policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving.
- The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines for Open Access documents