Open access models and strategies in disseminating scientific information

• Author: Ionela Maria Bârsan
• Position: Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 131-136

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 9 (56) No. 2 - 2016

OPEN ACCESS MODELS AND

STRATEGIES IN DISSEMINATING

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Ionela Maria BÂRSAN1

Abstract: Open Access movement has completely changed the publishing

model in academic community. The golden way is publishing on Open Access

Journals and green way is to archive scientific production in institutional

repositories. Transilvania University built repository in 2009, first

institutional repository from Romania.

Key words: Open access, publishing model, repositories, archiving.

1. Introduction

Aiming to gain broad access to research output, alternative ways of publishing

scientific literature are developed. As suggested by the supporters of open access, there

are actually two ways of gaining a “genuine”, true open access: self-archiving, performed

by authors (Green Road Open Access) and open access journals (Golden Road Open

Access).

2. Strategies for Open Access

The first strategy, called the Green Road, is self-archiving. It implies depositing the

electronic publications (both edited and non-publications) in the open electronic

repositories, supported by the research, education and cultural institutes. These archives

are called archives of electronic publications or institutional depositing (repositories)

(urcan, 2009).

The standards, focusing on facilitating the dissemination of information, are promoted

and developed by the Open Archives Initiative – OAI. The Green Road is free of charge

for both authors and users. In 2004, Electronic Publishing Innovation Centre made a

distinction between archives and repositories, which states that an archive is a collection

of papers published in journals, and a repository is a collection of papers including both

published and non-published papers. However, this distinction is not seldom used and

both terms are used as synonyms.

The Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publications market

in Europe (available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-

publication-study_en.pdf) specifies two types of archives or repositories: thematic and

institutional (Table 1).

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, o.barsan@yahoo.com