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Publisher’s version of finished article (final layout etc.)

URN identifier is the unique and permanent identifier of an online publication. The URN identifier given to a document will not change as long as the identity and name of the publication remain the same. The URN identifier will only…

A finished version produced by the publisher, which has gone through DTP and peer review. Usually a PDF file. This is the final version of the work, the one which the publisher distributes, with the finished layout (logo, page numbers,…

a manuscript version that the author has sent to the publisher and that has not been peer reviewed. The contents of the manuscript may still change.

There are many so-called publishers with questionable intentions, who try to approach authors by email, for example, and who are only interested in receiving article processing charges and do not invest in the quality of their publication’s content. The names…

Parallel publishing means that an article published in a scientific journal will be published on an open publication archive (Theseus at JAMK), where the parallel publications are freely accessible to all, either right away or after a certain embargo determined…

Open Access refers to open accessibility of research publications. Open Access publications can be freely read, copied, printed and linked online by everyone without any charge. This means that their accessibility is not limited to, for example, people that have…

Long-term preservation means the reliable preservation and storage of digital material for dozens or up to hundreds of years. Devices, software and file formats will become legacies, but information must be kept.

The latest draft sent by the author to the publisher, after a possible peer review. In practice, this article version features the finalised content and its content is identical to that published by the publisher, but this version does not…

The original output by the author, which has been sent to the publisher, but has not yet been peer reviewed or edited. This version is often called a preprint.

Online production tool for monograph publishing. Editoria is the open source, browser-based books production tool developed by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) in collaboration with University of California Press and California Digital Library. Editoria is powerful in its ability to…