Self-archiving policies in the health sciences journals field: a perspective from an institutional repository

Abstract

Being respectful with copyright and author rights has been always a priority for the Andalusian eHealth Library in the management of the Repository. Legal criterion is one of the key aspects to accept content in it. However, learning the self-archiving policy of scientific health science journals may be difficult sometimes, despite the valuable help of databases such as Sherpa/Romeo and Dulcinea. This paper examines access policies and selfarchiving conditions; use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses; and article processing charges (APCs) of these journals, and compares their implementation in three business model: open access (OA), subscription-based and hybrid journals. The ultimate purpose is to find objective reasons that help our authors to ensure compliance with open access legislation and funding body requirements.