Green Open Access - Concept

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Motivation

Open Access

The primary motivation of Open Access was

• to provide Open Access to Knowledge for the READER of Publications and  
  
• to allow Open Access to AUTHORS Publication Opportunities (unbiased publication of Knowledge)
  

For the Open Access Strategy of Post-AT6FUI we can identify 4 major scientific roles and a technical level of Open Access:

Scientific Roles

• Scientist as Readers of publications,
  
• Scientists as Authors of publications,
  
• Scientists as Reviewers of Publication,
  
• Scientists as Board Members of a Scientific Journal or  Member of a Programme Committee.
  

Publication Management

In general conferences are managed with IT infrastructure (e.g. Open Source Conference Management System CMS or webbased Services without the need host a server for the conference itself). Relevant features of CMS for Publication Management are:

• Single Sign On for multiple Open Access Conferences and Green Open Access Journals with Scientific Profile for Reviewing Assignment
• (Semi-)automated Assignment of Reviewer to submitted papers due to profile matching and publication ranking.

Objective is to use a conference management system for publication management - in the Pilot 2016 EasyChair is used with the free version, that creates no cost to the Management.

Open Versioning of Papers

Transparent Versioning of Publication development can be performed with versioning systems. Similar to the Open Source Development of Software Paper development can be transparent itsself. All versions are visible and the contributions of authors are tracked automatically.

"Who contribute, where and when?" can be answered by the versioning system. The acknowledgements of a paper could provide credits to other contributors on an idea anyway if they are not contributing directly to the improvement of a paper.

Prospective ratio of authors that want this open strategy for publication seems to similar to the Open Source Communities 1 out of 1000 (e.g. with free GitHub repositories).

Green Open Access vs. Commercial Open Access Strategies

Commercial Publishers need to create income for the company, so it necessary to charge someone for the publications and the reviewing work provide by the scientific community to the companies:

• charge either the Reader of publications,
• the Authors of publications by publication fees (e.g in Gold Open Access),
  
• or the Institutions the Authors works for.

AT6FUI-Pilot includes Green Open Access with evaluating Open Source IT-supported Reviewer Assignment. The concept focuses on non-commercial Open Access with free Conference Management Systems that will not create charges neither for authors nor for readers. Scientist have the options for virtual participation, which allows participation without travel expenses by Video Presentations and Video Conference for Discussions at Regional or Local Meeting Points.

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