Author's Toolkit: A Guide to Manuscript Preparation and more

These resources provide information about journals and publishers.

• Gold OA: Publisher’s version of record is openly available immediately
  • Published PDF is released with an open license that allows reuse (e.g., a Creative Commons license)
  • Gold OA publication requires payment of an APC (article processing charge) making this a “pay to publish” model
    • The library has agreements with several publishers to support APCs.
• Green OA: Deposit of version of manuscript in an institutional or disciplinary repository
  • Submission version (aka “ahead-of-print”)
  • Post-peer review version (aka “post-print” or “author’s accepted manuscript”)
  • Green OA publication may be delayed due to publisher’s embargo policies
  • Licenses vary with the the types of reuse
• Bronze OA: Articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, without an explicit Open license
  • Publishers sometimes make journal content publicly accessible on their websites for a limited period of time and then revert to allowing access only through subscription or paid access
  • Article does not include an open license allowing some types of reuse
• Diamond or Platinum OA: Publisher’s version of record (VoR) is openly available immediately
  • Content is released with an open license that allows reuse (e.g., a Creative Commons license)
  • Publisher does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs)
  • No charge to access; no charge to publish

Public Access requires that research outputs be made freely accessible for all to read. The Green OA model meets this requirement. Public access does not require that outputs be free of copyright or reuse permissions.

The D. Samuel Gottesman Library is exploring ways to make it easier for Einstein faculty, students, postdocs, and staff publish in open access journals. The Library has entered into Read-and-Publish and Transformative agreements with several publishers which will cover the costs of article publishing charges (APCs) normally paid by authors.

To streamline the approval process, please use your organizational email address when submitting manuscripts to journals.

Go to the Graduate School for the official guidelines on submitting your thesis or dissertation.

A preprint is a complete and public draft of scientific document posted to a public server prior to peer review, journal acceptance, and official publication. Preprints are useful ways to disseminate knowledge quickly. Preprint servers are open access public, online servers designed for authors to post their findings and receive feedback.

Before posting a preprint online, it is important review the policies of the journal you plan to submit your manuscript to because some journals prohibit preprints. You should also consider copyright and licensing issues, since some publication agreements transfer copyright from the author to the publisher.

NIH has undertaken a Preprint Pilot Project in order to increase the discoverability of preprints. During the current phase of the project, preprints resulting from research funded by the NIH are made available via PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed if they are posted on these preprint servers: