This is a journal published by Wiley and formerly by Blackwell Publishing. It is a RoMEO yellow journal meaning that the author can archive a pre-refereeing article although an author can archive a post-print after a period of 12 months after publication. It has Online Open where an Article Publication Charge is paid by either by the author, institution or funder making it available immediately and freely to anyone.

Journal policies of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems:

• RoMEO green journal
• Paid open access option is available for this journal.
• author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
• author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
• author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

This is a journal published by the American Institute of Physics. 

It is a RoMEO green journal. 

The Article Publication Charge is paid by either the author, institution or funder making it available immediately and freely.

The journal policies of Animal behaviour are:

• Paid Open Access: yes
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, both
• Embargo period: 12-48 months (depending on funder requirements)
• Other restrictions/curiosities: no embargo for author's personal website

Animal Conservation is a journal published by Wiley and Zoological Society of London. It is a RoMEO yellow journal meaning that the author can archive a pre-refereeing article.

The Annals of Oncology is published by Oxford University Press. It is a RoMEO yellow journal.  The author is allowed to archive a preprint and a postprint 12 months after publication. The author is not allowed to archive the publisher's version/pdf. There is an open access publishing option through Oxford Open.

It is a repositoy of OA prepints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

The journal open access policies of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition are:

• Paid open access: yes

• Pre-print archiving: yes (ie pre-refereeing)

• Post-print archiving: yes (ie final draft post-refereeing)

• Author's post-print in Institutional repositories after 12 months embargo.

• Published source must be acknowledged

• Must link to publisher version with set statement (see policy)

• NIH authors only will have their article deposited on their behalf to PubMed Central

• Non-commercial use only

Some OA policies inherent to three Bioinformatics Journals:

BMC Bioinformatics: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1471-2105/

Author's Pre-print: author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Author's Post-print:   author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
Publisher's Version/PDF:  author can archive publisher's version/PDF

Cell Communication and Signaling: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1478-811X/

Author's Pre-print: author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Author's Post-print:  author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
Publisher's Version/PDF:  author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

Bioinformatics: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1367-4803/

Author's Pre-print: author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Author's Post-print:  author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
Publisher's Version/PDF:  author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

• Paid Open Access: yes
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, pre-print
• Embargo period: 12 months
• Other restrictions/curiosities: 
  author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF
  

Brain Structure and Function: green journal

• can archive preprint and post-print, but not publisher´s version
  
• paid open access version
  

The journal Open Access policies of Cell are:

• Paid Open Access: yes
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, pre-print
• Embargo period: 12 months
• Other restrictions/curiosities: Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons-Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives License
  

Methods of using openscience in a collaborative environment

It is basic to be able to connect when it comes to life sciences research. Every day we get thousands of new information that needs to be understood to continue advancing on a science field or generate new innovative ways to find solutions to common problems.

I want to learn more about OPEN Science

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

DOI (Digital Object Identifier): a string of numbers, letters and symbols that points to an article or document and links to it. 

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A federated core of international data infrastructures, tools and services which will be made freely available to European researchers. Additional information is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud

It's an acronym of FINDABLE, ACCESIBLE, INTEROPERABLE and REUSABLE, characteristics related to the publication of scientific data.

A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC

Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately

Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of 12 months

Permitted deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental policy or mandate, may be required to comply with embargo period of 12 months

Author's post-print may be used to update arXiv and RepEC

Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used

Must link to publisher version with DOI

Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License

The journal policies of Frontiers of Psychology are:

• Paid Open Access: Yes (OA mandatory)
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, both
• Embargo period: No
• Other restrictions/curiosities: All post-print distributed under terms of Creative Commons Attribution CC BY
  

• Author's pre-print on pre-print server such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, Peer J PrePrints, or similar platforms (both commercial and non-commercial)
• Authors post-print and Publisher's version/PDF on any website
• Publisher's version/PDF may be used
• Creative Commons Attribution License
• Copy of License must accompany any deposit.
• Authors retain copyright
• Published source must be acknowledged
• Must link to publisher version with DOI

This is a gold OA journal.

According to SHERPA RoMEO, Health Information and Libraries Journal is categorised as a Yellow journal. This means that self-archiving of authors' accepted versions of manuscripts is possible, but not the version of record. This accepted version must be with a CC NC license, meaning no commercial derivatives are permitted.

Hypothes.is is a webbased annotation service. It is based on a non-profit, open source community platform that enables you to annotate any website either privately, in groups with your peers or publicly with the whole world.

Infectious diseases is a RoMEO green journal:

• Paid open access option available.
• Authors can archive pre-print and post-print, but cannot archive publisher’s version/PDF

Some other general conditions are:

• Some individual journals may have policies prohibiting pre-print archiving
• On author's personal website or departmental website immediately
• On institutional repository, subject-based repository or academic social network (Mendeley, ResearchGate or Academia.edu) after 12 months embargo
• On a non-profit server
• Published source must be acknowledged
• Must link to publisher version
• Set statements to accompany deposits (see policy)
• The publisher will deposit in on behalf of authors to a designated institutional repository including PubMed Central, where a deposit agreement exists with the repository

• Paid Open Access: yes
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, pre-print
• Embargo period: 12 months
• Other restrictions/curiosities: Author's pre-print may not be updated with Publisher's Version/PDF. Author's pre-print must acknowledge acceptance for publication. Non-Commercial. Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used. Publisher source must be acknowledged with citation

I searched for the two main publications that I used during academic publishing:

European Journal of Heart Failure: A Romeo yellow publication / A paid open access option is available for this journal, but papers can only be archived pre-print. 

Hepatology: A Romeo yellow publication / A paid open access option is available for this journal, but papers can only be archived pre-print.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry is a RoMEO green journal, with pre- and post-print archiving available

• Optional paid open-access
• Embargo period: 12 months
•  Archiving the publishers' version is possible, subject to restrictions. The author retains copyright

Information from http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php

This is a RoMEO green journal. Author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing); author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing); author can archive publisher's version/PDF

Green

Archiving policy: Can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF

This is a RoMEO green journal meaning that the author has the possibility to archive pre-prints, post-prints and the publisher's version. There is a paid Open Acces option (Gold).
Archiving on the authour's personal website is possible immediately, on institutional repositories or PubMed after a 12 month embargo period. The authors retain the copyright.

 This journal exists for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. This is a RoMEO green journal.

The journal Open Access policies of Journal of Sex Research are: 

• Paid open access: yes.
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes, both.
  
• Embargo period: 12 months  
• Author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF
  

This is a RoMEO white journal, which means archiving is formally not supported. A paid open access option is available for this journal.

This is an open access journal. Pre-print and post-print can be archived. Author's post print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution License.

This is a journal published by Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins. It is a RomMEO yellow journal. An author can archive a preprint article as well as apostprint article 12 months after publishing. It has a paid Open Access option as well so that any reader can have access immediately.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology: a RoMEO green journal/ A paid open access option is available for this journal. General Conditions: Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC; Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately; Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of 12 months; Permitted deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental policy or mandate, may be required to comply with embargo period of 12 months; Author's post-print may be used to update arXiv and RepEC; Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used; Must link to publisher version with DOI; Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License

PLoS ONE: a RoMEO green journal/ an open access journal. General Conditions: Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0; Authors retain copyright; Publisher's version/PDF may be used; Published source must be acknowledged with citation; Author's pre-prints can be deposited in pre-print servers; Publisher will deposit articles in PubMed Central

This magazine is published by Elsevier. It is a RoMeo green magazine and has an open access payment option. The prepress and postpress of the author can be archived. The pdf version cannot be archived. Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License.

Orphan diseases

Nanomedicine

Paid Open Access: Yes

Pre-print archiving: Yes with restrictions.

Post-print archiving: Yes with restrictions.

Publisher's Version/PDF: Author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

this is an open access journal; all versions can be archived including the final version

• Research articles only
• On author's personal website, institutional repository and funder designated repository
• Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
• Authors retain copyright
• Must link to publisher version
• Published source must be acknowledged and DOI cited
• Post-prints are subject to Springer Nature re-use terms

This journal is green Open Access , so you can archive pre-print, post-print but you can't  publisher's version/PDF. Published by Elservier for 12 months.

The general conditions are:

• Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC
• Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately
• Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of 12months
• Permitted deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental policy or mandate, may be required to comply with embargo period of 12months
• Author's post-print may be used to update arXiv and RepEC
• Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
• Must link to publisher version with DOI
• Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License

OA policies journals of different journals:

stem cell reports: Green

BMC Molecular and Cell Biology  - ungraded journal

Nature Cell Biology - Yellow

green: "Can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF"

yellow - "Can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)"

A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Compliance data is available for 24 funders

A journal I plan to publish results in that is open access:

Nature Communications

Authors can archive pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version. 

This is a "green" journal.

• Author's pre-print on any website (Research articles only)
• Immediately upon publication
• On any website
• Publisher's version/PDF may be used
• Must link to publisher version
• Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged and DOI cited
• Authors retain copyright
• Creative Commons Attribution License

I searched for the two main publications that I used during academic publishing:

Annals of the Rheumatic diseases: A Romeo green publication / A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Journal of Rheumatology: A Romeo white publication / A paid open access option is available for this journal.

I looked for open access journals in my field, but the ones I already use, like the Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, and the Veterinary Records Case Reports, were not listed

I searched for two Journals: Behavioral Ecology; Conservation Biology

Behavioural Ecology is a RoMEO Green journal with a paid open access option available

Conservation Biology is a RoMEO Yellow journal with a paid open access option available

I checked FEMS Microbiology Ecology (ISSN: 0168-6496, ESSN: 1574-6941) where I have published before. 

Extract of policy Direct from the website.

Author's Pre-print:	author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Author's Post-print:	author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
Publisher's Version/PDF:	author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF
General Conditions:	Pre-print can only be posted prior to acceptance Pre-print must be accompanied by set statement (see link) Pre-print must not be replaced with post-print, instead a link to published version with amended set statement should be made Pre-print on author's personal website, employer website, free public server or pre-prints in subject area Post-print on author's personal website immediately Post-print in Institutional repositories or Central repositories after 12months embargo Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used Published source must be acknowledged Must link to publisher version Set phrase to accompany archived copy (see policy) The publisher will deposit in PubMed Central on behalf of NIH authors

JMIR has been classified a  'RoMEO green journal' and has the following open access traits;

author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Author's Post-print:	author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)
Publisher's Version/PDF:	author can archive publisher's version/PDF
General Conditions:	On any website Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged Must link to publisher version Publisher's version/PDF may be used

PLOS One is an open access journal. All articles are made openly available under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 licence on publication.

PLoS Pathogens is a green journal according to SHERPA/Romeo - PLoS journals as full open access

PNAS: yellow journal

• can archive preprint 
  
• can only archive post-print and publisher´s version after 6 months embargo 
  
• paid open access option.
  

PNAS has yellow policy according to RoMEO 

This is a RoMEO yellow paper, which means that pre-prints can be archived. A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Morphological method use for digital imagination of microscopic anatomical structures.

Submit an 'article' to a participating journal at the planning stage, including introduction and method. Receive reviewers comments and (hopefully) acceptance in principle, then run the study and have it published in that journal, regardless of what the results show. 

It helps you secure a publication avenue early and improves the reproducibility of science as a whole. 

Find out more: https://cos.io/rr/

RIO Journal (Research Ideas and Outcomes) is a community platform that allows you to publish all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles. It allows open peer review for all your uploads.

Most of the journals I am planning on publishing with are RoMEO Green journals, meaning I can submit my final version to an open-access archive as well should I wish. The only one I am interested in that is not green, is Nature Biotechnology, a journal that is Yellow instead. This means you can publish the open version after a six month embargo period.

Science Communication (Journal) OA Policy:

Paid OA: A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Author's Pre-print: author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)

Author's Post-print: author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

Publisher's Version/PDF:  author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

General Conditions:

Authors retain copyright

Pre-print on any website

Author's post-print on author's personal website, departmental website, institutional website, institutional repository or other repositories, including PubMed Central

Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged

Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used

Post-print version with changes from referees comments can be used

"as published" final version with layout and copy-editing changes cannot be archived but can be used on secure institutional intranet

Must link to publisher version with DOI

Great website for getting access to papers your institution doesn't have aces to already.

http://sci-hub.tw/

Romeo Yellow access journal. 

Paid open access. 

1 year restriction on access.

Can archive a pre-print (according to publishers guidelines) but not publishers version. 

Resource that uses a colour-coded scheme to classify academic journals according to their publishing and open access self archiving policies

A paid open access option is available for this journal. Standard authors can archive pre- and post-print drafts of their articles, but cannot use the publisher's version. There is a 12-month embargo period, after which authors may archive post-print in open access repositories.

River are dynamic ecosystems and its morphology often changes to varied degree depending the geography and other driving forces. River morphology plays significant role in distribution and abundance of aquatic species.

I want to learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of open access and how to participate. 

I am not able to get this box ticket to I have to keep posting in here.

This is a RoMEO green journal which means pre-print, post-print and publisher's edition can all be archived.

The journal Open Access policies of vaccine are:

• RoMEO green journal
  
• Paid Open Access: yes
• Pre/post-print archiving: yes
• Embargo period: 12 months
• Other restrictions/curiosities: 
  • Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC
  • Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately
  • Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of 12 months
  • Permitted deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental policy or mandate, may be required to comply with embargo period of 12 months
  • Author's post-print may be used to update arXiv and RepEC
  • Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
  • Must link to publisher version with DOI
  • Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
  
  

Paid OA: paid open access option is available

Authors can archive a pre-print, but not the publisher's version of the article