What does ‘green’ open access mean? Tracking twelve years of changes to journal publisher self-archiving policies

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 106-122

  Gadd, Elizabeth ^a   Troll Covey, Denise ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embargo periods; green open access; institutional repository; publisher policies; self archiving

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061660925     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000616657406     Document Type: Article

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