The following publishers offer free open access publishing opportunities for researchers of the Wigner RCP, made possible by national consortia subscriptions (EISZ OA Agreements). Our library assists researchers to comply with open access. Please read the information at the links and contact us by e-mail, phone or in person with any further questions.

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How to publish OA carefully?

Orientate yourself about open access and open science (in Hungarian) in general and about OA publishing. The movement was mainly triggered by journal crisis, but now many scientific organisations are committed to open science. Unfortunately, it has exposed problems that are holding back the movement's expansion and the commercial policies of scientific publishers are also slowing it down considerably. It has been adversely affected by the emergence of predatory-like journals, which often try to entice researchers to publish with unsolicited offers, favourable rates and misleading metrics. Databases are now available to measure the scientific performance of journals. Always check the credibility of journals, publishers' policies and archiving rules. Not only for open access articles, but also for any publishing contract, it is recommended to carefully study the obligations and constraints imposed by the publishers before signing the contract, especially the passages on publication may contain strict conditions and prohibitions that may be worth challenging before signing.

Domestic and foreign research funds generally require open access publication. Similarly, the Hungarian OTKA/NKFIH also requires research groups that have received funding to publish their research results in an open access format (in Hungarian).

Datarepositories

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Repositories

Repositories are document servers in universities and research institutions that archive and make scientific material available free of charge. Authors can also deposit their publications in these archives free of charge.

• HUNOR- HUNgarian Open Repositories
• Repositories of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
  • REAL -  Publications and reports of research projects funded by HAS (MTA) and/or OTKA
  • REAL-d - Doctoral (and old candidate) dissertations of the HAS (MTA)
  • REAL- PhD - National PhD repository of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KIK) 
  • REAL- J - Repository of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KIK) - digitalized journals and other periodical publications
• arXiv - e-print collection of the Cornell University Library
• OpenDOAR- The Directory of Open Access Repositories

How can I check the credibility of Open Access resources?

Collections of scientific OA journals and databases: 

• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - Directory of OA journals by Lund University of Sweden. Constantly updated,
• Sherpa/JULIET - Information on the open access policy of research funds.
• Sherpa/RoMEO - Archiving policies of publishers. These data are for information and guidance only. Publication contracts may provide different terms and conditions, so the specific content of the contract will always be decisive.
• ROARMAP - Open access policies of institutions by countries.

Copyright information

Copyright protection (in Hungarian) is the basis of open access regulation. The contract with the publisher defines the rights of authors and regulates the use of open access documents, e.g. self-archiving in institutional repositories or on the author's website.