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Gold open access

Published August 10 2020 | Revised November 27 2024

Gold open access

Gold open access usually means the immediate, permanent, and free to access availability of the published version of record on the publisher’s website and with a licence that permits copying and reuse (REF, 2019). See also: Licence, Version of Record.

The following toolkit article(s) mention(s) this glossary term:

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