EC Scholar includes the following collections:
EC faculty can choose to have publicly visible profiles of their works in the EC Scholar platform. Just use the Log In link to access your draft profile and begin adding works.
For more information about EC Scholar, contact your collegial librarian or eResources librarian, Nancy Schuler (schulenl@eckerd.edu).
Gold OA
Article is published in an open access journal that allows free access immediately upon publication. Articles are peer reviewed and publisher’s allow author’s to retain their copyright. Authors are often required to pay open access publishing or article publishing charges (APCs).
Hybrid OA
While a Gold OA journal has all articles open access, a Hybrid OA journal includes only some OA articles. Articles are published open access and available immediately, but not all articles within the journal may be open access. Authors may pay open access publishing or article publishing charges (APCs).
Green OA
In Green OA, authors choose to make versions of their work available by self-archiving their work on their personal webpage, an institutional repository, like EC Scholar, or a subject repository like arXiv.org. Articles are peer-reviewed and may be referred to as a pre-print (accepted but without publisher formatting) or post print-version (with publisher permission) of their journal article. These typically do not have publisher formatting.
Pre-prints versus Post-prints version Published Version of Record (from wikimedia commons)
It is recommended that authors archive their work in both institutional and subject repositories when possible.
Institutional Repository
Institutional repositories provide a place to house self-archives open access works for an institutions faculty or researchers. These are often great resources to find pre- or post-prints of works. Eckerd College uses the EC Scholar platform to house the scholarship for faculty and some student works. Only Eckerd faculty can upload open access files to archive their work. To see if a journal has an open access pathway, see the Sherpa/Romeo tool above.
Subject Repository
Numerous subject repositories exist to house pre- and post-print files for researchers. These accept submissions from researchers at any institution.
For-Profit Social Networking Sites for Academics
Institutional and subject repositories are often run by educational institutions, non-profits, and professional associations. For-profit repositories also exist for scholars to share their work and connect through social media. These commercial sites collect data from researchers and and use the appeal of that data to generate traffic and increase ad revenue. While they seek to collect data, researchers have limited control over what data they can extract themselves.
Examples of for-profit repositories include:
For a thorough comparison of institutional and subject repositories versus for-profit sites, see A social networking site is not an open access repository from the University of California, Office of Scholarly Communication.
A key element of Green OA publishing is that authors self archive their work online in institutional repositories, subject repositories, or your personal website. An authors ability to self archive is dependent on their agreement with the publisher of their work. Most open access publications allow authors to retain the copyright to their work, and self archive a version of the paper online using a Creative Commons license. Other publishers may seek to retain copyright, and allow authors to self-archive after an embargo period.
Sherpa/Romeo is a useful too to help determine the Green OA self archiving rules for a publication. The site aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies so that researchers can see the open access pathways allowed by individual publications. (See also: Sherpa/Romeo User Guide)