Glossary

The Aberystwyth Research Portal https://research.aber.ac.uk makes the very best of Aberystwyth University's staff and postgraduate research openly available online, free of charge. Content in the portal includes published outputs, postgraduate theses, project details, as well as records for other esteem activities. The portal also includes Personal Profiles of all current staff and research students. This allows browsers of the Portal to view on one page all related research content linked to that person. Browsing is also possible by department. This is Aberystwyth University’s institutional repository.

A publisher’s fee to cover editorial, peer review, marketing, and distribution costs of publishing a Gold open access article.

Often known as the post-print. The author’s final manuscript as uploaded into the publisher’s formatted page. The AAM is distinguishable from the final published version by the lack of page, volume, and issue numbers.

The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the creator of an original work to print, publish, perform, or record; academic, literary, artistic, or musical materials. Using third party copyright material in a work that is intended to be Open Access can occasionally be problematic. In relation to this, UKRI have provided some good practice guidance: Managing third-party copyright for research publications (UKRI)

A form of licence outlining what a person may do with an open access work where the copyright is held by a third party. Details of these licenses can be found on the Creative Commons (CC) website where the 4 basic elements of the licenses are described: the attribution-only license (CC-BY), the no-derivatives license (CC-BY-ND), the no commercial reuse license (CC-BY-NC), the ‘share-alike’ license (CC-BY-SA), and their various combinations. Jisc have prepared a document which specifically explains how these CC licences interact with the UKRI Open Access Policy, also offering good practice advice on the use of these licences: Publishing under the UKRI open access policy: Copyright and Creative Commons licences (Jisc)

Adding a research output such as an article to a repository - accompanied by standard metadata.

A system by which articles which are “born open access” at the time of publication. Fully open access journals usually charge a fee for such publication transparently via Transformative Agreements or explicitly via article processing charges. Sometimes you might see this method referred to as “Route One”.

Also referred to as deposit in an institutional repository. Making a version of work (usually a post-print or author-accepted manuscript) available in an open access repository. Sometimes you might see this method referred to as “Route Two”.

An online archive of an institution’s scholarly outputs which can include publications in peer-reviewed journals, books and book-sections, technical reports, working papers, monographs, conference presentations, audio/visual materials, mathematical models, or any other research content that has scholarly value. The Aberystwyth Research Portal (https://research.aber.ac.uk) is the University’s institutional repository.

Data that describes the format and content of material in a repository or database. For items in open access repositories, this usually consists of a minimum of full bibliographic reference, abstract, keywords, and DOI or URL.

Open Access is freely available, peer-reviewed, online scholarly literature which is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

This means it can be freely accessed by anyone in the world, with the potential readership of open access articles being far greater than that for material where the full text is restricted to subscribers.

Also known as the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM). The author’s final manuscript as transcribed into the publisher’s formatted page. The AAM is distinguishable from the final published version by the lack of page, volume, and issue numbers.

Any one of the preliminary drafts of an article before it has been peer-reviewed and possibly even before any submission to a publisher.

The Current Research Information System (CRIS) used by Aberystwyth University to manage research metadata and to deposit related publications (https://pure.aber.ac.uk). PURE feeds the Aberystwyth Research Portal.

A piece of research content, including articles, books, chapters, technical reports, working papers, monographs, conference presentations, audio/visual materials, research datasets, mathematical models, sequence data, etc.

A Jisc-managed tool for finding open access information about journals, publishers, funders, or repositories: https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk

An online archive of open access literature in particular fields e.g., PubMed Central and arXiv. Can include pre-prints, post-prints, or final versions of articles as determined by the repositories’ own rules or publishers’ conditions.