If you would like to re-publish ("self-archive") a journal article or another paper via the "Green Road" of Open Access in the Research Collection, you need to the observe the copyright policies of the original publisher.

Article version

Many publishing houses permit the publication of either preprints or postprints (also called Author's Accepted Manuscript, short AAM) of published articles in an institutional repository such as the Research Collection.

A preprint is the manuscript version of an article as submitted to the publisher, e.g. before peer review.

A postprint is the accepted manuscript after the peer review process. The postprint...

• is the final author's manuscript accepted by the publisher for publication
• contains all the revisions made in the course of the peer review process
• is equivalent to the published version in terms of content
• is designed by the author
• does not have a publisher layout or contain any publisher logos

Publishing houses rarely allow the use of the publisher PDF for publication in a repository.

Embargo

Some publishing houses only permit the publication of articles in repositories after a so-called embargo from the first publication date. This can vary from 2 to 36 months.

You can nevertheless submit your article at any time to the Research Collection. When uploading the file, indicate the embargo end date - your file will then be automatically made available to external users on this day while only metadata will be visible immediately.

Where to look up publisher copyright policies?