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Eprint

Eprint – a digital version of a research document available online for a repository.

Version of Record (VOR)

Version of Record (VOR) – the final version of a manuscript, after peer review and processing by a publishers.

Post-print

Post-print – a manuscript draft after it has been peer reviewed.

Pre-print

Pre-print – a manuscript draft that has not yet been subject to formal peer review, distributed to receive early feedback on research from peers.

Open Access Week 2018

Theme of 2018 International Open Access Week To Be “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge”. This year’s theme reflects a scholarly system in transition. While governments, funders, universities, publishers, and scholars are increasingly adopting open policies and practices, how these…

Kısmet Press

Kısmet is the Turkish word for fate. It is also an open access publishers founded in early 2014 by a small group of academics from the University of Leeds in response to the changing state of academic publishing. Kısmet specialises…

Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports institutions of higher education and culture as they pursue deeper understanding of the human condition and experience.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. Because democracy demands wisdom, NEH serves and strengthens our republic by…

Freedom Forum

The Freedom Forum — dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people — is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the five freedoms of the First Amendment.

HuMetricsHSS

HuMetricsHSS is an initiative for rethinking humane indicators of excellence in academia, focused particularly on the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Comprised of individuals and organizations from the academic, commercial, and non-profit sectors, HuMetricsHSS endeavors to create and support a…

Open Access Button

About We urgently need trusted knowledge that’s fairly owned, created, and read. We’re addressing that by creating a family of library-aligned, open source tools built not-for-profit, but for-change. Our tools make it simpler to do research without subscriptions. The project…

OASPA

The international community of Open Access publishers Our mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally, across all subjects and disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing…