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Researchers and KUV's: Open Access

Open Access at the Royal Academy

At the Royal Academy, we encourage all researchers and KUV's to publish Open Access if possible. You can read more about the strategy in the Quality Assurance Handbook for Research and KUV right here (danish): Kvalitetssikringshåndbog

The Library's Research Support can guide you through the options available to publish your articles and books Open Access.

The Danish Strategy for Open Access

The Danish Strategy for Open Access has as its goal "that from 2025 onwards there is unhindered, digital access for everyone to all peer-reviewed research articles from Danish research institutions - with a maximum delay of 12 months"

The strategy focuses on two types of Open Access – the green and the golden model.

  • The green model allows the author to archive an article in an open archive such as Pure. The publisher/journal's policies determine which version of the article you are allowed to share. It can be a preprint, an accepted manuscript (postprint), a proof, or the publisher's version.
  • The golden model requires a publishing fee (APC) to the publisher for publishing the article freely available to all.

Article-based theses

If you are doing an article-based thesis, read along here.

For each article in your thesis, you must have clarified the following regarding copyright:

If the article in your thesis is the publisher's version:

Is there exclusive copyright for that version of the article? If the article is not already Open Access (can typically be seen by the fact that it has a CC license), you may not share it in Pure. You can possibly obfuscate the article in the thesis, or put "dummy pages" over it indicating the DOI or link to the article.
If the article in your thesis is a preprint or Accepted Manuscript (AM):

These versions may generally be shared as Open Access. With preprints, the publishers usually allow unhindered sharing, but with AM's you must be aware of possible embargo from the publisher.
In addition, several publishers have already described guidelines regarding the reuse of published manuscripts in a PhD thesis. We therefore always recommend that you orientate yourself on the relevant publishers' websites.

If necessary, ask us before you sign your publishing contract!

Monographs

If you have been doing a monographic thesis, be aware of the general rules for sharing images, tables and figures to which you do not have the rights yourself.

If you are in doubt as to whether you are allowed to share material, there is help in the Copyright Act:

”…§ 23. Offentliggjorte kunstværker og værker af beskrivende art, jf. § 1, stk. 2, må gengives i kritiske eller videnskabelige fremstillinger i tilslutning til teksten, når det sker i overensstemmelse med god skik og i det omfang, som betinges af formålet. Gengivelsen må ikke ske i erhvervsøjemed…”

"...§ 23. Published works of art and works of a descriptive nature, cf. § 1, subsection 2, may be reproduced in critical or scientific presentations in connection with the text, when this is done in accordance with good practice and to the extent determined by the purpose. The reproduction may not be made for commercial purposes…”

This leaves room for interpretation, so if the material can be defined as a "descriptive work", it is therefore permitted to reproduce it under the same conditions as a quotation.

Ask the Library's Research Support if you need help.

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Find OA with Unpaywall

When your research is made Open Access the green way - e.g. if your pre-print or post-print is uploaded into Pure - it can be read (and cited!) by the whole world. Many researchers use browser plug-ins such as Unpaywall, which can find Open Access versions of articles. That way the file in Pure can easily be found - it only requires that you link it to the DOI.

Install Unpaywall in your browser

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