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Green open access

A type of open access where a version of a publication is freely available via an institutional or subject repository, or other web-accessible digital archive, that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 19 May 2026

Editorial commentary

A type of access" class="text-primary underline-offset-2 hover:underline" data-autolinked="true" title="Open access — CASRAI Dictionary">open access where a version of a publication is freely available to read or download via an institutional or repository" class="text-primary underline-offset-2 hover:underline" data-autolinked="true" title="Subject repository — CASRAI Dictionary">subject repository, or other web-accessible digital archive, that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The version is often the author accepted manuscript. This as opposed to the version of record available on a publishers website.

Also known as

Secondary open access · self-archiving

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
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      vocab-term="Green open access"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/green-open-access" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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}

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