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Open Access Questions

If I want to publish an article in Open Access under the HEAL-Link agreements, what are my obligations toward HEAL-Link?

It is recommended that when submitting your article you include the following statement:

– For publications where the full Article Processing Charge is waived, you may note:
“The publication of the article in OA mode was financially supported by HEAL-Link.”

– For publications where a discount is provided, you may note:
“The publication of the article in OA mode was financially supported in part by HEAL-Link.”

In no case should HEAL-Link be indicated as a research funder, since it covers only the Open Access publication cost and not the funding of the research itself.

HEAL-Link has agreements with various publishers to provide financial support to researchers for publishing in Open Access. You can refer to the different publishers in the relevant Guide to Available Open Access Options, where, for publishers offering a full APC waiver, the corresponding indication will appear at the top of the page.

In order to be covered by a HEAL-Link agreement, you must:

  • Be the corresponding author of the article and have an active affiliation with a HEAL-Link Member Institution, which you must declare during the submission process as well as in the article itself.

  • Ensure that the article type and the journal are eligible. You can find this information in the guide to available options and in the index of eligible journals.

Provided that all the above conditions are met, once your article is accepted and you choose Open Access publication, the request will be forwarded to us for processing. We will then contact you to confirm the above details.

Finally, we would like to inform you that even if all the above conditions are fulfilled, we unfortunately cannot guarantee Open Access coverage for all publishers. For some publishers, the number of articles covered under our agreement is limited, and priority is determined on a first-come, first-served basis (according to the time the requests reach us for processing).

 
 

At the moment, there is no limitation on the number of publications that HEAL-Link can cover per author. For some publishers, there is a limitation on the total number of articles per year for all members of the HEAL-Link research community, not for each individual member.

Creative Commons licenses are those applied in cases of Open Access publications. For more information, you may visit the relevant page of the organization here.

We recommend choosing the CC-BY (Attribution) license, as it is the most open among the available licenses and is recommended for maximum dissemination and use of the licensed material. However, you are free to choose any license you prefer and consider most suitable for your own needs, as there is no obligation toward HEAL-Link.

RUOMOplus Questions

If an article has been written by three people from the same department, should the publication be submitted to Ruomoplus by all three, or is one submission enough? If all three of us submit the same publication, is there a problem?

If a publication has already been submitted by one of its authors, it does not need to be submitted by the others. Once a publication has been submitted, it automatically appears on the profile of every author who is a researcher at the University of Macedonia.

The article in the publisher’s formatted version may be uploaded only if the corresponding fee for open-access licensing has been paid to the publisher. In all other cases, publishers allow authors to upload to their institutional repositories the “author’s accepted manuscript,” which is the final version after peer review but formatted by the author. In such cases, the publisher often imposes an embargo period that starts after the article’s publication and usually lasts from 12 to 36 months. In the repository, we check and comply with all restrictions imposed by the publisher.

All institutional repositories worldwide (and publishers in the case of open access articles) use a Creative Commons license that allows free distribution of the work with mandatory attribution to the creator (author). A Creative Commons license may include the following restrictions:

  • No commercial use of the work is allowed, and

  • No modifications or adaptations of the original work are permitted.

This more restrictive license is usually referred to as CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons – Credit must be given to the creator – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted). This is the license I recommend.

In RUOMOplus, you select the Creative Commons license and, for the questions “Allow commercial uses of your work?” and “Allow modifications of your work?”, you select No.

Regarding the ranking of a journal title, the percentile rank is calculated, not the highest percentile. For the process of awarding research prizes, the average percentile rank across all subject areas to which a journal is assigned in Scopus is used. For example, for the journal Research in International Business and Finance, click on the title to see its ranking in all the subject areas it belongs to.

 

Specifically, the journal Research in International Business and Finance is ranked in the following two subject areas:

  • Business, Management and Accounting — 96%

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance — 94%

Average of {96, 94} = 95

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