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monOApoly: a board game about Open Access

2022
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Abstract

How not to get lost in the quest to publish an Open Access article? This game focuses on how a researcher can make their publication compliant with the Open Access requirements of their institution and funders. To be compliant today, a researcher should try to choose full Gold, Diamond, and Hybrid OA journals included in transformative agreements, or negotiate as much as possible an acceptable embargo to self-archive a version of their article in their institutional repository. S.He must also be attentive about predatory journals and be aware of the double dipping question. This game explores the different ways – the “colors” of Open Access – to achieve this compliance goal and aims to reflect as closely as possible the reality of journals’ conditions, and the landscape of financial support possibilities, between transformative agreements and dedicated library funds.

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2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7fba06e7-334a-4e35-af5e-0655f036d945

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Open access

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. Under some models of open access publishing, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright. The main focus of the open access movement is "peer reviewed research literature". Historically, this has centered mainly on print-based academic journals.

Predatory publishing

Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. Namely, the rejection rate of predatory journals is low, but seldom is zero.

Institutional repository

An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics However, most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders As a result Academics should be involved in the implementation and development of an IR project so that they can learn the benefits and purpose of building an IR.