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How to Make Your Work Open Access

This guide provides general information and resources about open access and scholarly publishing to HKUST researchers. You will also find information about the author accepted manuscript requirement by the University.

Trend of OA Publications at HKUST

This line chart shows the 10-year trend of open access (OA) publications by HKUST authors, differentiated by OA types. 

  • “Gold (APC)” refers to articles published in full OA journals (listed in DOAJ) that require an Article Processing Charge (APC). 
  • “Diamond” refers to articles published in full OA journals without an APC.
  • “Hybrid” refers to freely available articles under OA license (e.g. CC license) published in subscription-based journals.
  • “Bronze” refers to freely available works without an identifiable license. 
  • “Green only” refers to works (including conference papers) that are only available in an OA repository, such as arXiv and HKUST SPD.

Read more from this post: Visualizing Institutional Research Using Open Data

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