🌍 During our Open Science Summer School 2025, Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt (@nicebread@scicomm.xyz) gave an eye-opening lecture titled “Open Access, Preprints, Postprints - or ‘How to do Open Access For Free’,” 🔓 exploring the many ways researchers can reclaim control over how their work is shared.

Listen to Prof. Schönbrodt’s full lecture here: https://osf.io/5rsxb, review the slides here: https://osf.io/c2mrb

Here are a few key insights:
📗 Open Access takes many forms, from Green Open Access (self-archiving preprints or postprints) to Gold models where publications are made openly available immediately by the publishers, against an article processing charge paid by the authors.
🔍 Green Open Access refers to freely depositing your article in an institutional or discipline-specific repository that is freely-accessible by readers. Wonderful tools like the Open Policy Finder https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/ help you check which version of your article, where, and when publishers allow you to deposit a freely accessible version of your article.
💎 Diamond Open Access is a publishing model that is free for both readers and authors, supported by community-driven and non-commercial initiatives.

Open Access redistributes ownership of scientific knowledge back to the academic community and the public who fund research. 📖