Open Access – Basics

• OA Explained & Knowing OA
• Benefits of OA
• OA Directories
• Want to publish in OA?
• Common Terminology in OA

 Types of OA

• Types of OA

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• Gold OA: Open Access for Global Readership
• Green OA: Self-Archiving Publications

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• Article Version
• Beware of Predatory Journals

 OA Publishing Support@Lingnan

• OA Publishing Support@Lingnan

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• Open Access Publishing Agreements
• Lingnan Open Access Publishing Support Fund 
• Self-Archiving via Lingnan Scholars

 Managing Your Copyright with OA

• Author's Rights: Why is it IMPORTANT?
• –– How to Retain your Author's Rights?
• –– Author Addedum Tools
• –– More about Author's Rights

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• What is Creative Commons Licenses?
• –– Creative Commons License Options
• –– The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
• –– Pre-licensing considerations
• –– How to apply a CC license or CC0 to your work

Open Access (OA) Publishing Agreements (also known as Transformative Agreements or Read & Publish Agreements) are contracts negotiated between a publisher and an institution (mostly through Library), to shift the payments away from subscription-based reading of journals to support OA publishing. The agreements vary among publishers with different terms and conditions apply.

The Library has entered OA Agreements with the following publishers, with fee paid on top of the journal subscription costs, allowing Lingnan authors to publish an agreed number of OA articles in the publishers’ academic journals at no additional cost upon fulfilling specific conditions.

Check here for the Full List of journals covered under existing OA Publishing Agreements @ Lingnan 

This table summarizes the OA Article Quota, author eligibility and workflow of each publisher:

Publisher	OA Article Quota In 2024	Remaining Quota (as of TODAY)	OA Eligibility & Author Workflow
Association for Computing Machinery [Eligible Publication List]	Unlimited	NA
Cambridge University Press [Journal Lists]	Unlimited	NA
Effective from 1 Jan 2024 Springer Nature [Journal Lists]	10 articles	3
Effective from 1 Jan 2024 Wiley [Journal Lists (Hybrid)] [Journal Lists (Full OA)]	9 articles	3

Need Assistance on OA Publishing?

Contact Library Research Support Team [Tel: 2616-8553 / 2616-8504; Email: scholars@LN.edu.hk]