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WRITEUP BOOKS OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Berlin Declaration requirements
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) states that original scientific research results can be considered open access when:
- the author(s) and rights holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) all users a free and irrevocable right of access worldwide, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly, as well as to make and distribute responsibly derivative works from it, in any digital medium and for any purpose;
- there is a proper attribution of authorship (mainly through the standards established by the Creative Commons community), as well as the right to make a small number of printed copies for personal use;
- a complete version of the work and all supplementary material, in an appropriate standard electronic format, is deposited (and therefore published) in at least one online repository, supported or maintained by an academic institution, government agency or other established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability and long-term archiving.
WriteUp Books provide to
- Publishing Agreement: with the Author (s), only after a positive evaluation if the proposal, i.e., after a positive peer review process
- Copyright: authors retain the copyright of the volume, without the exclusive transfer of the rights. Authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, and all users and readers are granted rights to reuse the work under the terms of a Creative Commons license
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: all the books published in Open Access have a default open access license, so-called Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license allows readers to share any part of the work by any means and format, modify it for any purpose, including commercial, as long as appropriate credit is given to the author, any changes made to the work are indicated and a URL link to the license is provided. Other Creative Commons licenses are available on the authors’ requests
- Self-archiving of books and chapters: self-archiving is strongly supported. Author(s) are encouraged to deposit the published version in their institutional archive or in any subject archive suitable for publication.
Glossary
OA models
Green open access (also known as ‘self-archiving’): the author shares their accepted manuscript or a chapter in a (Department/institutional) repository following any embargo periods required by their publisher.
Gold open access: the publisher makes the work openly available at the moment of publication. There is usually a Book/Article Processing Charge (B/APC) to pay with Gold open access.
Diamond open access: similar to Gold open access, neither author(s) nor reader(s) are requested any fee to publish or read.
Publication
Preprint (or Submitted version): is the first author’s own version of a book/article. Even if there can be several versions of a preprint, its very definition is “not peer reviewed”. No value was added to a preprint version by the publisher (such as formatting, copy-editing, revision of any sort).
Postprint (or Accepted manuscript): is the manuscript that has been accepted for publication. For articles, this version typically includes revisions resulting from peer review, author-incorporated changes, suggestions by the editor. For book, Postprint includes all the previous, but may be subject to further modification by the publisher (I.e. copy-editing, typesetting, paginations, and like).
Published journal article(book) / Version of Record: for articles, is the version that appears or will appear in the journal, including both value-adding publisher activities and peer review results. For books, VoR is the version that is formally published. The VoR includes any post-publication corrections.
Websites
Personal webpage: web pages created by you, about you and your research which are hosted on a non-commercial website (such as your institute’s website). Personal profile pages in commercial sharing sites (such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Facebook) are not considered to be personal web pages.
Department or institutional repository: web pages hosted by an academic or research institute or department to provide access to the work of, and to promote and the activities of, an institute or department, at all times operating for a non-commercial purpose.
Non-commercial or subject repository: web pages hosted by an organisation to provide access to the work from researchers working in a subject or range of subjects, at all times operating for a non-commercial purpose.
Commercial repository: any repository that uses content for direct or indirect financial gain. When considering whether a use is commercial or non-commercial, we look at the nature of the activity rather than the nature of the site or organisation performing the activity (examples: ResearchGate, Academia.edu).
Journal Open Access Policy
Preprint: authors can share their preprint anywhere at any time.
Accepted Manuscript: immediately via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog or via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses.
Formal requests
Both Preprint and Accepted Manuscript should link to the formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Accepted Manuscript should bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Accepted Manuscript should not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the published journal article.
Published journal article
Each journal could have its own peculiar policy regarding sharing the final version of the article. Journal’s policy can be found on the webpage of the journal.
Books Open Access Policy
Open Access (OA) is emerging as a new model for book publishing. WriteUp Books supports OA in books and journals, both through our Gold and Diamond OA publishing programme and through Green OA policy. Please read the sections below for each publishing policy.
For books that are not published Gold OA, our Green Open Access policy provides another way for authors to comply with funders’ open access requirements, by allowing authors to make a limited number of chapters from their books publicly accessible online.
Here below you can read how much of a manuscript can be made publicly available, in what ways, and under what licences, depending on the version of the manuscript being shared.
An embargo period of six months is fixed for all starts from the date the Version of Record is first published online.
Preprint
Re-use licence: Any licence (including Creative Commons)
Personal web page: Entire manuscript, at any time
Department, institutional, or non-commercial subject repository: Entire manuscript, at any time
Commercial repository or social media site: Entire manuscript, at any time
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)
Re-use licence: CC-BY-NC-ND
Personal web page: One chapter, six months after publication
Department, institutional, or non-commercial subject repository: One chapter, six months after publication
Commercial repository or social media site: One chapter, six months after publication
Published journal article (book) (Version of Record)
Re-use licence: CC-BY-NC-ND
Personal web page: One chapter, six months after publication
Department, institutional, or non-commercial subject repository: One chapter, six months after publication
Commercial repository or social media site: One chapter, six months after publication
The final published e-book (Version of Record) is immediately available, for consulting and sharing, both for authors and readers.
Open access books are made available under the CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND license, according to the author(s) request.
A print on demand (POD) version of the book will also be made available to purchase. No royalty is paid on the open access e-book but authors will receive a royalty from sales of the POD version.
Open access publication fee (see Revenues and charges) is paid by the author or by a third party on their behalf (for example by their institution or funding body).
The final published e-book (Version of Record) is immediately available, for consulting and sharing, both for authors and readers. Neither authors nor readers have to pay fee in order to publish or read the scientific essays.
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I requisiti della Dichiarazione di Berlino
La Dichiarazione di Berlino (2003) stabilisce che i risultati originali della ricerca scientifica possono essere considerati ad accesso aperto, cosiddetto open access, quando:
- gli autori e i titolari dei diritti di tali contributi concedono a tutti gli utenti un diritto di accesso gratuito e irrevocabile a livello mondiale, e una licenza per copiare, utilizzare, distribuire, trasmettere e mostrare l’opera pubblicamente, nonché realizzare e distribuire in modo responsabile opere da essa derivate, in qualsiasi supporto digitale e per qualsiasi scopo;
- è presente una corretta attribuzione della paternità (principalmente attraverso gli standard stabiliti dalla comunità Creative Commons), nonché il diritto di realizzare un numero limitato di copie stampate per uso personale;
- una versione completa dell’opera e tutto il materiale integrativo, in un formato elettronico standard appropriato, è depositata (e quindi pubblicata) in almeno un archivio online, supportato o mantenuto da un’istituzione accademica, agenzia governativa o altra organizzazione consolidata che cerca di consentire l’accesso aperto, la distribuzione illimitata, l’interoperabilità e l’archiviazione a lungo termine.
WriteUp Books prevede
- Un contratto di pubblicazione: con l’autore (o gli autori), solo dopo una valutazione positiva della proposta, ovvero dopo un processo di revisione positivo
- Copyright: gli autori mantengono il copyright del volume, senza il trasferimento esclusivo dei diritti. Gli autori concedono una licenza non esclusiva all’editore per distribuire l’opera e a tutti gli utenti e lettori vengono concessi i diritti di riutilizzare l’opera secondo i termini di una licenza Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: tutti i libri pubblicati in Open Access hanno una licenza open access predefinita, la cosiddetta Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Questa licenza consente ai lettori di condividere qualsiasi parte dell’opera con qualsiasi mezzo e formato, modificarla per qualsiasi scopo, incluso quello commerciale, purché venga dato il giusto credito all’autore, vengano indicate tutte le modifiche apportate all’opera e venga fornito un collegamento URL alla licenza. Altre licenze Creative Commons sono disponibili su richiesta degli autori
- Auto-archiviazione di libri e capitoli: l’auto-archiviazione è fortemente supportata. Si incoraggiano gli autori a depositare la versione pubblicata nel proprio archivio istituzionale o in qualsiasi archivio specialistico idoneo alla pubblicazione