Open Access Scholarly Publishing 101

public access: “free to read and download” (term used by federal government)
open access: “free to read, download, and reuse without functional restriction”
This article from the Scholarly Kitchen helps break down the distinction.

• OA = open access. Often modified by a color label; see “Know Your OA Options” for definitions
• OER = open educational resource ("open textbook" is often used for some kinds of OER)
• APC = Article processing charge
• PID = Persistent Identifier (Examples of PIDs: ORCID, DOI, ROR)
  • DPI = Digital Persistent Identifier (term used by federal government)
• ORCID = Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier
• ROR = Research Organization Registry
• DOI = digital object identifier
• TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) = model for setting aside funding specifically for books in the humanities and humanistic social sciences toward OA publication
• FAIR = data principles which meet standards of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability
• DMP = data management plan
  • Sometimes known as DMSP - Data Management and Sharing Plan
• ETD = electronic theses and dissertations
• Libra - UVA’s institutional repository of open scholarship created by the University community. This online archive provides a central, stable location for scholarly output of all kinds.
  • LibraOpen: Open articles, books, and other creative works
  • LibraETD: Theses and dissertations
  • LibraData: Datasets, software, and other research material

• CC = Creative Commons (licensing organization); CC0, CC BY, etc. refer to specfic licenses
• SPARC = Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• ORFG = Open Research Funders Group
• SSP = Society for Scholarly Publishing (group behind Scholarly Kitchen)
• KFG = Knowledge Futures Group
• SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access)
  • Sherpa Romeo = database of open access policies searchable by journal or publisher
  • Sherpa Juliet = database of research funders' open access policies
• OSF = Open Science Framework : a project of
  • COS = Center for Open Science (Charlottesville, Va.)
• RDA = Research Data Alliance
• OAI-PMH = Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• IOI = Invest in Open Infrastructure
• OSTP = U.S. Government Office of Science & Technology Policy
  • "Nelson Memo": guidance to make federally funded research freely available (August 2022)
  • NSPM-33: National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 established national security policy for U.S. Government-supported R&D (January 2022)

• NASEM = National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

• HELIOS = Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship – initiative based on NASEM Roundtable’s Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices (UVA Library is a member)

• ESIP = Earth Science Information Partners

• PLOS = Public Library of Science

“Manuscript” : not literally handwritten; rather, original version of a work before submission for publication

Preprint = manuscript as submitted for publication, before peer review

AAM (“author’s accepted manuscript”) : peer-reviewed but not formatted; also called post-print (edited, value-added)

“Version of record” = final version as typeset, paginated, formatted by publisher

Glossary from the libguide "Exploring Open Scholarship”

UVA Library Glossary