Open Access Publishing
Open access ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.
Services and resources supporting open access
Aalto University open publication archive consists of ACRIS Research Information System and Aaltodoc publications archive. The open publication archive offers a free platform to self-archive and publish as green open access the publications of the university.
Moreover, Aalto University offers other resources to support open access.
Moreover, Aalto University offers other resources to support open access.
Research Information System contains information about research and artistic activities and publications of the university. The full texts added to ACRIS are available on public portal.
The self-archived full texts and publication metadata are copied from ACRIS to publication archive for long-term preservation.
Aalto University open publications archive supports open access:
- It provides a free platform for self-archiving (Green Open Access).
- Publications are available and visible worldwide for free and no login is needed.
- Publications get a persistent identifier (URN).
- Long-term preservation is ensured and the publications will be available as open access in the future, too.
- The publications are easily searchable and findable by search engines, thus increasing the impact of Aalto University's scientific and artistic activity.
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The publication archive has its own open search system, publication information and full texts being searchable, also by subjects.
Non-profit open access services currently financially supported by Aalto University:
- : A free distribution service and an open-access archive
- : A directory of quality scholarly open access books
- : A directory of quality scholarly open access journals
- : open-source repository software with focus on open access, preservation, and storage
- : International, persistent researcher identifiers
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(formerly Sherpa/Romeo): Publisher and journal open access and self-archiving policies and funders' policies and their requirements on open access.
Other resources supporting open access:
