Open Access (OA): Research articles and other scholarly works made freely available to readers online and often with licensing terms that allow sharing and re-use. OA articles are peer-reviewed just like subscription articles, but publication costs are supported through different business models.

UVM ScholarWorks: Open access publishing platform and institutional repository of the University of Vermont.

Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM): The final, peer-reviewed version of an article before formatting by the publisher, usually in an original document file format like Microsoft Word.

Version of Record (VOR): The final published version of an article that is available on the journal’s website.

Article Processing Charge (APC): A fee charged by some publishers to make an article open access.

Creative Commons (CC): Creative Commons licenses enable authors to retain copyrights and decide how their work is used. CC BY, which is the most "open" license, allows anyone to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the author.

This information is adapted from text in Help Make Your Research Articles Freely Available, by the University of California Office of Scholarly Communication, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.