How to publish Open Access in the earth sciences

Abstract

Open Access to scientific literature and research data has significant advantages for researchers as well as for society as a whole. Researchers might gain from increased citation rates and from higher visibility of their research outputs, while researchers as well as the public benefit from a better accessibility of scientific literature and data. Increasingly, funding organisations such as the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020-funded projects or the 16 national and international members of “Plan S” demand that publications that result from projects funded by them are made openly accessible. The poster outlines the different ways of publishing text and data in Open Access. After a brief overview of reasons for publishing Open Access, it points out different routes for publishing texts in Open Access (in Open-Access-Journals or self-archiving) and major aspects for FAIR and open data publication.