- Acceptance date: The date you received the email from the journal or publisher confirming acceptance, please save this email (as a PDF preferably) to the record you create in Insight. This date is essential for calculating OA compliance.
- Article Processing Charges (APCs): This is a fee paid to the publisher to make an article immediately OA at the point of publication with the publisher's in-house formatting applied. Most often associated with the Gold Open Access route.
- Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs): The AAM is the final version of an academic article or other publication - after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author, but before the publisher has applied in-house formatting.
- Creative Commons: Creative Commons licences (e.g. CC-BY) are one of the primary types of public copyright licences used when publishing Open Access.
- Diamond Open Access: This involves you publishing in an open access journal without a fee being paid to a publisher. In OA terminology this fee is known as an Article Processing Charge or APC. A good example of the diamond route are the journals included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Diamond equals no cost to the you or the University.
- Embargo: An embargo in academic publishing is a period during which access to a research publication self-archived in an open access repository (Green open access) is restricted. The length of an embargo is decided by the publisher of the work and tends to commence at the point of publication. Please note that some funders, including UKRI (from 01/04/2022), are requiring immediate open access i.e. no embargo.
- Gold Open Access: This involves you, or the University, paying an APC to a publisher to make a research output immediately open access at the point of publication. APCs can range from hundreds to thousands of pounds per output.
- Green Open Access: This is currently the University's preferred route and it involves you self-archiving the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version of your academic article or other publication into a repository such as the University's research outputs repository (called Insight). Green equals no cost to the you or the University.
- Insight: The University of Cumbria's Institutional Research Outputs Repository. https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/
- JISC: Joint Information Systems Committee - A not-for-profit company whose role is to support UK institutions of higher education and research. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/open-access
- Open Access: Publishing open access (OA) means that research outputs are freely available online for people to read and potentially re-use. OA makes research available to many more people than a journal article sitting behind a paywall does. It benefits society and will also help your research be noticed and read widely.
- Read and Publish Deals (sometimes also known as Transformative Deals): UoC Library Services have signed a range of publisher deals available for UoC authors wishing to publish ‘Gold’ open access. Under these new agreements, the fees paid to publishers by the library cover not only access to published content (the 'Read' element), but APC costs as well (the 'Publish' element), thus providing new opportunities for researchers to publish open access
- RKE: Research and Knowledge Exchange, professional service supporting you at the University of Cumbria. Email: research.office@cumbria.ac.uk
- Sherpa: Three services provided by JISC helping authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions in open access publication and compliance.
- UKRI: UK Research and Innovation - includes constituent councils (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, MRC or STFC). https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy/
- University of Cumbria Open Access Policy: University of Cumbria recognizes the value of its research and is committed to sharing its knowledge and expertise as widely as possible in order to enhance its use and impact. Full policy available here.