Open Access: What is it?
Open Access means free and free access to scientific publications for all interested parties worldwide. In order to ensure flexible use, open access titles are electronic or online publications which, if necessary, can also appear in parallel in printed form, as with GRIN.
The best-known definition comes from the so-called Budapest Declaration of 2002, a conference of the Budapest Open Access Initiative with the aim of making research results freely accessible to the public.
Open Access refers to the fact that this literature should be freely and publicly available on the Internet, allowing interested parties to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, refer to and otherwise use the full texts in any legal way, without financial, legal or technical barriers beyond those associated with Internet access itself.
This is how the free open access publication at GRIN works:
- Register and
Upload paper - Fee option
your payment method - We'll create your
E-book and book
Free - Worldwide distribution of the print version
- Your fee
Register and upload text
Simply register for free with GRIN and publish within 5 minutes. To do this, upload your text as a Word or PDF file using our upload function.
Choose a royalty option
From the 3 fee options at GRIN, you simply choose the open access publication and share your knowledge with the world for free.
We create your e-book and book for free
From your text file, our editorial team will create a finished e-book and book, each with its own ISBN. We will equip your publication with a cover and publish your text in our online shop, where it can be viewed free of charge.
Worldwide sales
The special feature of GRIN: in addition to the e-book, which can be accessed free of charge, we create a print version of your text. This is marketed through a worldwide sales network of over 300 online shops. Your book is also available in local bookstores.
Receive author's fee
With the printed book, you benefit from every sale. GRIN pays an author's fee of up to 20% on book sales.
Why Open Access is the right choice for you:
- You make your text available free of charge and thus share your knowledge in an uncomplicated way, without hurdles and independent of financial resources and research locations.
- The upload to GRIN takes only 5 minutes. We will produce a finished e-book and book from your text file, each with its own ISBN, and publish your text in our online shop, where it can be viewed free of charge. This process takes about 2 weeks, so your research results are available in a very timely manner .
- Research data that is openly accessible can be reviewed and verified by more people, which in turn increases the reputation of your text and increases the likelihood that it will be disseminated. You will also contribute to more transparency in science.
- You will contribute to the acceleration of international scientific cooperation by making your text open access. Global free availability also helps people in poorer countries gain access to relevant scientific information.
- Google and other search engines get full access to the text with open access publications, which means that your text is crawled faster and better , making it easier to find.
- Scientific publications that are offered free of charge are cited more frequently on average and thus gain higher visibility.
- At GRIN, you still earn money with your open access publication, as we create a printed version of your text in parallel and market it worldwide.
- GRIN offers over 20 years of publishing experience and provides your title with an ISBN for the e-book and for the book, so that we can easily market your print version.
