Students often publish for the first time when they publish their thesis. According to the policy of the Tampere higher education community, theses are published openly. A thesis is a public document and this should be taken into account when writing the thesis.
Institutional repositories:
Open Access (OA) is about the open, free availability of scientific information. Open access means that anyone can read the publication in anywhere at any time via the Internet.
You can make your work open access by:
One of the often mentioned benefits of Open Access is that scientific articles which are openly available are cited more often than articles in traditional subscription journals. Citation rates have been studied a lot and studies have been made on several fields of science.
Research funders often require transparency of publications because they distribute public money to researchers. Citizens have the right to see how their public money has been spent.
In the process of publishing a research article, several different versions of the article are created and these different versions usually have different permissions.
Right to self-archiving is particularly important when the article is to be deposited in an institutional repository. That is why you should clarify from the publisher which version of a research article, a collection of articles or a conference paper can be self-archived. The first version of the article submitted to the journal (pre-print) will become the last manuscript version (post-print) after peer review and possible revisions. Most publishers allow this peer-reviewed manuscript to be deposited in their university's institutional repository.
Image adapted from the source: HEFCE’s Open Access Policy
This table contains different names for article versions that publishers use at different stages of the publication process.
| Manuscript submitted to journal | Author's final version of an article | Article published in a journal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terms | Pre-print, submitted version, author-submitted article | Post-print, final draft, accepted author manuscript, accepted article, author's accepted manuscript |
Final published article, final published version, version of record, definitive version, publisher PDF, publisher's version, ahead of print, in press, corrected proof, online first, offprint, Epub, forthcoming article. |
| Definition | Not peer reviewed, author's first article manuscript version sent to a journal. | The author's final version of an article that has been modified according to the feedback of the peer review, does not have the layout or logos of the publisher. | Final version of the article that has layout, pagination, logo etc. finalized by the publisher. |
