Different Open Access Options to Publish your Papers
*Gold open access*
Publishing gold open access means that your article is freely and permanently available online for everyone at every time to read.
Question: Who is paying to make the articles free to read anyone at any time.
Answer: The article publishing charge (also called article processing charge, APC) is a fee paid by the authors, the funding agencies like HEC, or private sectors or the authors’ institution to make the research open access.
*Diamond open access*
Diamond open access is exactly like gold open access; however, the publisher covers the APC. This option is available for specific flagship journal, like Chemical Science of RSC.
*Hybrid journals*
There are two options for authors to publish paper
Publish your work as open access
Publish your work as a subscription
*Green open access*
Self-archiving of published or pre-publication works, preprints or post-prints (with publisher permission) such as arXiv.org.
