Open Access in Informatics
Support available for Open Access and a summary of common publisher policies.
Support for Open Access
Within Informatics support for Open Access is provided by Victoria and Sam in the RDM team. Please contact the RDM team for questions about Open Access policies or publisher policies.
Support is also offered centrally by the Scholarly Communications team based in the Library. They have a list of available publisher discount schemes (including deals between publishers and the University that allow gold open access free of charge) on their webpages.
Scholarly Communications webpage on publisher discount schemes
Pure entry
Staff can choose to enter publications themselves, or use one of the following methods of mediated entry:
| Use the provided guides for creating Pure entries |
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| Forward the acceptance email and the accepted manuscript to the RDM team on rdmpublications@inf.ed.ac.uk | Contact the RDM team |
| Complete the local publications form. | Informatics publications submission form |
Summary of Publisher Trends
Information on publisher's policies should be listed in the copyright form/license transfer form that staff sign. For journals, information can be found on the SHERPA/RoMEO site.
For convenience, a summary of the policies for some of the major publisher of Informatics material is included below. The copyright agreement will always override this information as will SHERPA/RoMEO. If there are major discrepancies, please let the RDM team know.
ACM
- Conferences: the author's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
- Journals: the author's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
Note the ACM LaTeX templates often include header and footer information, so the author's final version may not look that different from the final published version.
IEEE
- Conferences: the author's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
- Journals: the author's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
IEEE electronic dissemination information
ACL
- Conferences: the publisher's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
- Journals: the publisher's final version can normally be archived with no embargo
ACL FAQs including information on copyright
Springer
Conferences in LNCS: the author's final version can be archived with no embargo. For other conference proceedings, the embargo period is likely 12 months.
Springer self-archiving policy
Journals: the author's final version can normally be archived with an embargo of 12 months. Staff should check the embargo period for their journal in SHERPA/RoMEO.
The University is also signed up to Springer Compact which will allow Gold OA without additional charge when the corresponding author is at Edinburgh.
Elsevier
Journals: the author's final version can be archived with an embargo period of 12 months. Staff should check the embargo period for their journal on the Elsevier website.