Authors are often required by funders, institutions, or other organizations to make research articles funded by them to be made freely available online, or open access. Publishing your article as open access will maximize its openness, discoverability, and re-usability.
If you are not publishing your article as open access, you can follow the green open access route of publishing, also known as “self-archiving”, when you post an earlier version of your manuscript in a repository or share online.
A repository is an online platform of content collated for archiving, preserving, and dissemination. They are generally either organized at an institution level (and institutional repository) or a subject level.
If you are publishing your article as gold open access, you can deposit your article’s Version of Record (VoR) as soon as it is published.
If you are not publishing your article as open access, or posting an earlier version of your manuscript. there may be an embargo on how it is shared.
- The Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM) or Submitted Manuscript Under Review (SMUR): You can deposit your author’s original manuscript or submitted manuscript under review at any time.
- The Accepted Manuscript (AM): You can deposit your accepted manuscript at any time as a closed deposit and after an embargo period as an open deposit.