Open Access
Secondary Publications
The term ‘secondary publication’ refers to the archiving and provision of research articles that have already been published and peer-reviewed as a parallel publication (the ‘green route’ to Open Access) on document servers (repositories). The aim is to improve access to publications that could not originally be published in open access.
Secondary publication at MLU
With the institutional repository Share_it, the ULB offers the option to upload various types of publications, including secondary publications, to make them accessible. A selection of other subject–specific repositories can be found on our external services page.
The copyright in your secondary publication is reserved for you as the author. Whether or not, and in what form, a secondary publication is possible varies from publisher to publisher. This is usually defined in the author‚s contract. An overview of the various publishers’ policies is provided by the SHERPA/ROMEO portal.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Open Science Team.
When submitting your OA publication: please register it in the University Bibliography, you wants to soon receive to email with information about the secondary publication and the deposit licence for Share_it.
The next steps you then need to take are:
- Upload the publisher’s PDF, manuscript version, etc. on Share_it.
- Submit the deposit licence
- Our Share_it repository managers will check and release the publication, possibly after an embargo period.