Research outputs are published in for example scholarly journals, conferences, reports and books. The scholarly publishing process consists of various stages and can take several months.
In scholarly publishing, research results are made available to the research community and everyone interested. A scholarly publication is a research output that disseminates new scholarly information for the research community, education, and the society at large to evaluate and reuse. Scholarly publishing is an important part of the impact of research and with it researchers gain merit and visibility.
Open access publishing is part of scholarly publishing, because it is a key goal in the operation of Turku University of Applied Sciences.
Find a high quality and reliable, preferably open access, journal that is suitable for your article and is likely to accept it for publication.
Make sure that your topic is interesting to the readership from the journal description on their website.
Ask for help in evaluating a reliable journal from the library specialists, we are happy to help you!
The publisher may charge fees for scholarly publishing. The most common is the open access charge, but fees can even be charged for an article published in a printed journal.
There are several ways to make a publication open access:
Check that the following things are clearly stated on the journal website:
Make sure that the article can be self-archived after publication if you are publishing it in a subscription journal. The information can be found on the journal's website, for example under Author information or Open access publishing:
If necessary, ask the library for help, we are happy to help!
Remember to include your ORCID researcher ID in your contact information when you are submitting your article to a journal. Fill in Turku University of Applied Sciences as your affiliation.
More information:
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, it will start a publishing process that can take time anywhere from a few months to up to a year.
The diagram below shows the different versions of a publication created in a typical publishing process. Pay attention to which version you should keep for possible self-archiving (Green OA).
Edited from graph by Deakin University Library (CC BY).
Always keep the article versions the publisher send to you, especially if you publish in a subscription-based journal. Self-archiving in the organisation's own or discipline-specific repository is often possible with the publisher's permission.
Self-archiving is part of the publication data collection process of Turku University of Applied Sciences. Learn more about self-archiving.
Send the information on your publication to the library at julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi to be added to the annual publication data collection of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
Also report if you or Turku UAS paid an APC to publish the article open access with the details of your publication.
Ask for help to clarify any questions by email from julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi, we are happy to help!
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Use the checklists on Think. Check. Submit. to find reliable publishers or journals:
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APC (Article Processing Charge)
The OA publication fee or the article processing fee of a publication that's charged to the author when they publish an article in a Gold OA or hybrid journal. The APC only covers open access publishing, not other processing of the article, such as language revision, etc.
Embargo
A publication delay defined by the publisher for self-archiving. During the delay, the publication may not be published open access online. The embargo period starts from the date of publication of either the electronic version or the printed version and can be 6-36 months or longer.
Green OA (self-archiving, parallel publishing)
Depositing a publication version in an open access repository of a higher education institution, research institute, or in a subject-specific or general repository. At Turku University of Applied Sciences, the library will self-archive your publications for you. More information: Guide to Open Access: Self-archiving (Green OA).
Institutional repository, open access repository
An open access repository of a higher education institution or research institute, e.g. Theseus.
Post-print / Author's accepted manuscript / AAM / Final draft / Author accepted version
Hold on to this version!
The final corrected version (that has undergone peer review) the author sends to the publisher, where the publisher's layout has not been added.
Pre-print
A manuscript version that has not been peer reviewed. The version may differ a lot from the final publication in terms of content and appearance. Not self-archived. The only exceptions are the preprint versions deposited in the ArXiv repository, which are eligible for publication data collection by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
Publisher's PDF / Final published version / Version of Record
A publication in the form it has been published online and/or in a printed journal by the publisher.
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