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    [Translate to English:] MIZ Open Access
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    Open Access at ZHdK

    ZHdK offers Open Access and the related publishing services of the Media and Information Centre (MIZ). The offer includes an institutional publication repository ZOPAR (ZHdK Open Publications in the Arts Repository) and a Gold Open Access funding line as part of a publication budget managed by the MIZ.

    ZOPAR is a publication repository that meets common standards such as retrievability, long-term archiving and interoperability with other research systems. ZHdK uses ZOPAR to implement its Open Access policy and provide access to ZHdK publications in Open Access. ZHdK specifies the legal conditions relating to the use of ZOPAR in the โ€œGeneral Terms and Conditions for Using ZOPARโ€.

    The Gold Open Access funding line is used to finance publications that were initially published by external publishers in accordance with the Gold Road standards. The criteria for coverage of publishing fees via the publication budget are defined in the funding guidelines.

    With these services and its Open Access policy, ZHdK commits itself to promoting Open Access and complies with the Swiss National Strategy on Open Access.

    • Open Access Policy of ZHdK (PDF)
    • General Terms and Conditions for Using ZOPAR (PDF)
    • Funding Guidelines Gold Open Access (PDF, German)
    • What is Open Access?

      Open Access describes the practice of making publications available online and free of charge or other access barriers. Open Access publications are stored permanently on the internet and such that they can be referenced. They bear a licence that protects the rights of authors but allows the use of data and information for teaching and research purposes.

    • How is Open Access provided?

      Open Access is provided in different ways:

      Green Open Access (Green Road)
      The Green Road allows self-archiving of publications in an institutional or specialist repository. The advantages of self-archiving in these repositories rather than publishing on a website are increased visibility and long-term access and availability. Self-archiving as republishing is supported by many publishers and permitted as long as it is regulated in the publishing agreement between the publisher and the author. An addendum to the agreement can also be used (e.g. the SPARC Author Addendum); an embargo period between initial publication and republishing must be observed if necessary.

      Gold Open Access (Gold Road)
      The Gold Road refers to the publication of an academic work in an Open Access journal or an Open Access book as an initial publication. Such publications are immediately accessible, ideally with a Creative Commons licence that clearly regulates their subsequent use. Open Access journals and books are financed with publication fees that are paid by the author or their institution.

      Diamond Open Access
      Diamond Open Access (also known as Platinum Open Access) is a sub-category of Gold Open Access. However, authors pay no publication fees to publish in Open Access.

      Hybrid Open Access
      Many publishers offer Hybrid Open Access journals, which can only be accessed via subscriptions. However, authors can โ€œbuy backโ€ their article in these journals, in some cases with high publication fees, so that it is immediately published Open Access. This model is controversial because institutions or libraries have to pay fees twice, i.e., a subscription fee to access or read the journal, and a publishing fee to publish the article Open Access.

      Find out more:

      • An overview of the history of Open Access and more information about the Open Access movement are available on the Explora platform of the ETH Library.
    • What are the advantages of Open Access?

      • Everyone can access and retrieve the publications in full text form online.
      • The increased visibility leads to more citations.
      • Publicly financed research findings are available to the public.
      • The rights of use remain with the authors via an appropriate agreement.
      • It fosters international and interdisciplinary collaboration.
      • The regulations of the funding institutions are fulfilled.
    • Which Open Access initiatives does ZHdK support?

      Organizations develop sustainable and innovative Open Access offers and initiatives with different stakeholders.

      ZHdK and the MIZ support the following Open Access initiatives:

      • Open Library of Humanities
      • SCOSS โ€“ Financial contribution to Open Science infrastructures (DOAB, OAPEN, PKP, Open Citations, ROR)
      • Open Library Medienwissenschaften (transcript)
      • Direct to Open (MIT Press)
      • ORCID
    • Tools and resources

      General information

      • open-access.net information platform, aimed at different target groups; for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
      • Open Access national
      • Open Access and the Swiss National Science Foundation
      • OpenAIRE Switzerland (EU programmes FP7, Horizon2020 and FP9)
      • Specialist group Open Access in den Kรผnsten; for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

      Search engines

      Repositories, journals, and other sources are indexed in these search engines.

      • BASE
        BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the worldโ€™s largest search engines for academic web documents. You have free access to the full texts of around 60% of the documents that are indexed in BASE (Open Access).
        ZHdKโ€™s publication repository, ZOPAR, is indexed in BASE, which increases the visibility and resulting use of ZHdKโ€™s Open Access publications.
      • CORE
        COREโ€™s mission is to aggregate all open access research output from repositories and journals worldwide and make it available to the public. In this way, CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for everyone.
      • OAIster
        OAIster is a union catalogue for millions of records from freely available sources.
      • Google Scholar
        Google Scholar is one of Googleโ€™s search engines and is used for general literature research into academic documents.

      Open Access Books

      This directory and the checklist help you search for and select a publisher for the publication of an Open Access book or book chapter.

      • OAD โ€“ Publishers | Open Access Directory โ€“ Publishers of Open Access Books
      • Think. Check. Submit. Books and chapters  | Checklist to select a publisher

      Open Access books are indexed in these directories, which increases the visibility and subsequent use of the books.

      • OAPEN | Open library and publishing platform for academic books
      • DOAB | Directory of Open Access Books
      • Open Research Library | Central access to peer-reviewed Open Access publications

      The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit helps authors with the publication process of Open Access books.

      • OA Books Toolkit

      Open Access Journals

      This directory and the checklist help you to select a suitable Open Access journal.

      • DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journals
      • Think. Check. Submit. Journals | Checklist to select a journal

      Guidelines and Policies

      The Open Access policies and mandates of various operators of Open Access repositories are indexed in this directory. ZHdK is also listed here with the publication repository ZOPAR.

      • ROARMAP | Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies

      This directory contains information on copyright as well as self-archiving of journal articles (conditions of the publishers and journals).

      • SHERPA/RoMEO | Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving

      This directory contains information on the Open Access policies of various research funders and organizations.

      • SHERPA Juliet | Research Fundersโ€™ Open Access Policies

      Add-ons and Apps

      These add-ons and apps help you to search for Open Access publications.

      • The Open Access Button | Browser add-on to search for a free version of an article
      • Unpaywall | Open database for free scholarly articles and add-on for Chrome and Firefox
      • Open Access Helper | Mobile and Desktop app for iOS, Safari, Chrome and Co

    Contact

    Open Access

    Robin Meyer, Medien- und Informationszentrum
    +41 43 446 21 80
    Julia Flieg, Media and Information Centre
    +41 43 446 21 91

    Research Service Open Science
    Jasna Zwimpfer, Research Affairs Office
    +41 43 446 20 36