Useful tools for Open Access
Find below some key Open Access tools, depending on what you want to do.
Check the Open Access compatibility of your favorite scientific journals:
- (formerly known as Sherpa Romeo): summarizes each journal policy about the green road of Open Access
- : Directory of Open Access Journals, lists all the 100% Open Access (=Gold) journals
- : to avoid journals having well-known predatory practices
- Specific tools provided by funders for their grantees:
- (SNSF)
- (cOAlition S)
Obtain funding for potential publication costs:
- Agreements with publishers webpage: check whether an agreement exists and follow the procedure.
- Use your funding agency's tool
Eg. (SNSF articles) ou (SNSF books) - Publication Fund: apply for financial support if the conditions are met
A flow chart summarizes the funding options for an Open Access article and their conditions.
Make your publications visible and open:
- : find out the Open Access rate of your publications and how to improve it
- Rights Retention Strategy : retain the right to freely and immediately disseminate a copy of the scientific article (without embargo).
- : share your publications, in the form of an accepted manuscript if the published version cannot be freely distributed
Find Open Access contents:
- : for publications by UNIGE authors
- : browser plugin, to search seamlessly into all institutional repositories online.
- : directory of books published 100% Open Access
- : directory of scientific journals who publish their contents 100% Open Access. Article search also possible.