Green open access is a term for “self-archiving” or making texts available through disciplinary and institutional repositories – for example, in the form of an author’s manuscript, publisher’s postprint, etc. (the published version of the text varies according to the specifics of the discipline, the requirements of funders and, last but not least, the contractual arrangements with the publisher). These are mostly texts published in journals funded by reader subscriptions. When planning this way of achieving OA, care should be taken to ensure that contractual arrangements with the publisher are sufficiently clear – in this context, it is advisable to follow the French Committee for Open Science’s guidance document “Implementing the rights retention strategy for scientific publications GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS” of December 2022.
“This procedure allows you to retain control over the dissemination of your manuscripts before, during and after the peer review process.”
The Institutional Repository of the Czech Academy of Sciences, operated by the Library of the CAS, has allowed authors from the CAS to deposit their full texts since 2012. As of this year, it contains almost 121,000 records of research results (as of 1 January 2023). The number of records with attached full text in this period is over 63,000 (i.e. 52% – including texts not accessible to the public for archiving purposes), the number of records with texts available to the public without restrictions or on request is currently 2,1121 (17%), the number of records with attached full text published in Open Access mode is 4,759 (less than 4%). A significant part of the results – 7,469 (over 6%) are published in Open Access mode on the publishers’ websites.
