Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/The life cycle of a publication

The life cycle of a publication

  • Author version: corresponds to any text with content that is directly produced by its authors. This includes the initial manuscript and its subsequent versions, the manuscript submitted for review to a conference or a journal.
  • Initial manuscript: first form of the author version disseminated in open access.
  • Submitted manuscript: first form of the author version sent to a conference or a journal for peer review.
  • Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM)/Revised manuscript after review: last author version as transmitted to the conference or journal after peer review.
  • Publisher's version/Version of record: document possibly formatted by the conference or journal publisher and distributed by the latter. If the copyright is owned by the publisher, authors are not allowed to share this version

Unfortunately, the version of this tool optimised for academic books does not exist yet. We recommend to ask your publisher directly about possibilities for self-archiving.

If you feel unsure, where to deposit your copy of publications to openly share them, we recommend using OpenDOAR , a quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories.