OAC 2025 Professional flashcards
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- Plan S
- cOAlition S initiative requiring immediate open access, CC BY license, and no embargo for funded research, launched in 2018 with a 2021 start date.
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- 2002 declaration defining open access as free online availability plus permission to reuse, laying the foundation for the global OA movement.
- FAIR principles
- Guidelines that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable; they emphasize machine-readable metadata and persistent identifiers.
- UNESCO Open Science Recommendation
- 2021 global normative instrument adopted by 193 member states, defining shared values and seven action areas for open science.
- Gold open access
- Model where the final published version is immediately free to read at the publisher site, often funded by an article processing charge.
- Green open access
- Self-archiving of a preprint or accepted manuscript in a repository, which may be subject to an embargo period set by the publisher.
- Diamond open access
- Publishing model with no fees for readers or authors, funded by institutions, societies, consortia, or grants.
- Transformative agreement
- Read-and-publish contract converting subscription spending into open access publishing, often assessed against cOAlition S and ESAC criteria.
- Article processing charge
- Fee charged to authors or funders to publish an open access article; varies widely and is a business model, not a definition of OA.
- CC BY license
- Creative Commons attribution license allowing reuse, adaptation, and commercial use provided credit is given; preferred by many funders.
- Rights retention
- Strategy where authors or institutions retain reuse rights via prior license or policy, enabling green OA despite publisher restrictions.
- CC BY-NC
- Creative Commons license permitting reuse and adaptation for non-commercial purposes only, with attribution required.
- TASL attribution
- Best practice for CC attribution: include Title, Author, Source, and License, with links and indication of changes.
- Institutional repository
- Online platform that collects, preserves, and disseminates an institution's scholarly outputs, often using DSpace or EPrints software.
- Data management plan
- Document describing how research data will be collected, stored, shared, and preserved, often required at grant proposal stage.
- CoreTrustSeal
- Certification for trustworthy data repositories, based on core requirements for sustainability, access, and preservation.
- OAIS reference model
- ISO 14721 framework for archival information systems, informing the design of trusted digital repositories and preservation workflows.
- DOI
- Digital Object Identifier, a persistent identifier for publications and data, registered through agencies such as Crossref and DataCite.
- ORCID iD
- A free 16-digit persistent identifier for researchers that disambiguates names and links works, employment, and funding.
- ROR ID
- Research Organization Registry identifier, an open persistent identifier for research institutions, accessible via API and community-governed.
- DataCite
- Registration agency that assigns DOIs to research data and other outputs, with metadata schema supporting discovery and citation.
- DORA declaration
- 2012 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which advises against using journal impact factor as a proxy for quality.
- Leiden Manifesto
- 2015 set of ten principles for responsible research metrics, emphasizing transparency, field normalization, and avoiding perverse incentives.
- Journal Impact Factor
- Metric calculated as citations in a year to items from the prior two years divided by citable items in those years; not article-level.
- Altmetrics
- Indicators of online attention such as news, blogs, social media, and policy mentions, used alongside citations in research assessment.
- COARA
- Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, whose signatories commit to reforming assessment criteria and processes.
- Nelson Memo
- 2022 US OSTP policy requiring federally funded research articles and data to be freely available without embargo by end of 2025.
- NIH Public Access Policy
- Requires deposit of NIH-funded articles in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication, with compliance tracked via NIHMS.
- Horizon Europe OA mandate
- Requires immediate open access via repository deposit within three months of publication, with APC eligibility rules for funded projects.
- Open Access Week
- Annual global advocacy event in October promoting open access, with changing themes and local campaigns.
- Stakeholder mapping
- Advocacy planning technique identifying champions, gatekeepers, and resistors among audiences to tailor engagement strategies.
- Bibliodiversity
- Diversity of publishing models, languages, formats, and epistemologies, countering dominance by English-language Global North publishers.