The Authors Alliance, a nonprofit writers’ organization, conducted a wide-ranging piece of research on the experience of authors with open access publishing, including my own experiences with Creative Commons and commercial publishing.
That said, most of the essay focuses on academic and scientific authors, who may be institutionally bound to publish under open access, or who may wish to open their work as part of their ethical commitment to peer review and access in scholarship.
THIS GUIDE WILL HELP YOU:
• Learn more about open access and related options
• Comply with an open access policy from an employer or funding agency
• Select the terms on which you would like to make a work openly accessible
• Publish a work with an open access publisher
• Make a work openly accessible on a personal or group website
• Deposit a work in an open access repository
• Negotiate with a conventional publisher to make a work openly accessible
• And much more.
