Glossary

This is an abbreviation of the Article Processing Charge, and it is the publishing expense that the author bears in order to make it possible to use a thesis by open access. It is also translated as terms, such as an article processing charge, thesis posting fee, and thesis publishing and processing fee.

This is a certain period of prohibition of public disclosure from the time when a journal is published until the time when it becomes possible to use the entire text of a posted thesis at an institutional repository.

This is a permanent and unique digital researcher identifier for a researcher or a contributor, and it is allocated to each individual researcher. Because of the same first and last names, changes of last names, inconsistency of notation, and transfers, there is some difficulty in the aggregation of researchers' names, but an ORCID iD can be used as a substitute for name information. A researcher can use this to disclose achievements, such as biography, research results, and acquisition of grants. The form is a structure that starts with "https://orcid.org/" and that has the numbers of the sixteen digits after that separated by hyphens after every four digits.

Reference:https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/services/open/pid/orcid

This is publicly disclosing research results (theses or research data etc.) on the Internet and making it possible for anyone to use them free of charge. OA methods consist of Green OA, Gold OA, Bronze OA, and Diamond OA.

This refers to a database that electronically amasses and saves the results (such as theses, research data, and presentation materials) of research and education on a server within an individual organization, such as a university or research institution, and that has the purpose of publicly disclosing those results on the Internet, free of charge and permanently. It is expected that, as a result of building and operating an institutional repository, there will be permanent and efficient saving and dissemination of research and education results, as well as improvement of brand power as a research institution and contributions to society.

This refers to an OA publishing model that conducts general public disclosure, usually free of charge, by registering theses (mainly authors' final manuscripts) at an institutional repository or a field-specific repository. If Green OA is conducted for research results that have been posted in an academic journal, a manuscript version that makes public disclosure by a publishing company possible may be designated, or a period of prohibition of public disclosure (embargo) may be set.

These are licenses provided by Creative Commons that are common throughout the world and that are for the purpose of indicating copyright rules. A total of six types of licenses have been prepared, and the copyright holder can clearly indicate a copyrighted work's use conditions to users by giving the copyrighted work an appropriate license and conducting public disclosure. For license types and use conditions, refer to the site below.
https://creativecommons.jp/licenses/

This refers to an OA publishing model in which open access is made possible on an electronic journal site as a result of an author paying APC to an academic journal publishing company. Free-of-charge access to the thesis becomes possible at the same time as publishing, and the possibility of discovery and usage improve. Journals for which all posted theses are Gold OA are referred to as "full OA journals" or "Gold OA journals." If it is a journal for which it is possible to choose whether to use OA at the time of posting or to make it possible for only subscribers to use a thesis's entire text, it is called a "hybrid OA journal."

This refers to a cloud service by which the National Institute of Informatics provides an institutional repository environment to universities and other research institutions. Meiji Repository has also been built by using JAIRO Cloud.

This is one criterion for using citation frequency to measure a journal's degree of importance or influence, and it is commonly called an "impact factor." It is often misunderstood as being an evaluation index for researchers or individual theses, but essentially it is something that uses the average value of a posted thesis's number of times of being cited to measure its comparative influence within the same field as that of the relevant journal. Citing customs differ depending on the research field, and therefore JIF cannot be used for comparison between different fields. It is provided by Clarivate's database Journal Citation Reports, and the subject is Clarivate's academic thesis database Web of Science Core Collection collection journal. As academic journal evaluation indices, there is also CiteScore, which Elsevier has been providing since 2016.

Reference：https://guides.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/IF_CI

This refers to an author amassing the author's theses on the author's own server or field-specific server, or on a server operated by a university or a library, and publicly disclosing those theses free of charge.

This refers to an unprincipled journal that has the objective of obtaining expensive APC from authors and that claims to be a peer-reviewed journal while actually not conducting appropriate peer reviews. There are some cases in which judgment is difficult at first glance, and if you accidentally make a submission without knowing that a journal is a predatory journal, there is a risk that people's evaluation of you as a researcher and your academic reputation will be lost.

This refers to an OA publishing model in which a publishing company, academic society, or research funding organization bears the expenses for open access and conducts open access for theses with no economic burden on subscribers or authors. It is also called Platinum OA.

This refers to a manuscript provided by the author immediately before peer review is completed and it is received by the publishing company, and it is a manuscript for which the layout adjustment and proofreading by the publishing company have not been conducted.

This is an abbreviation for Digital Object Identifier, and it is an international identifier that is given to content's electronic data. Using this makes it possible to prevent broken links to URLs and to maintain permanent access.

These are agreements for the purpose of making a change from an electronic journal's subscription agreement model to an open access publishing model by gradually changing from electronic journal subscription fees to APC. In addition to a Read & Publish model that uses, as a set, the subscription fee paid by the university and the APC that authors paid up to that time, there is also Publish & Read model by which access to non-OA theses also becomes possible by paying APC, and an offset agreement that reduces the subscription fee based on the OA rate for the hybrid journal to which a subscription is made.

This is a journal that uses a method in which, for each individual posted thesis, the author chooses whether or not to bear APC and use open access. Because OA is conducted only for theses for which APC is paid, OA theses and paid theses (subscription theses) are mixed together in one journal. The occurrence of double dipping of publishing company revenue because of annual subscription fees and APCs is also viewed as problematic.

These are principles for the purpose of public disclosure and sharing of research data that is the result of research, and the term arose from an acronym that is the abbreviation of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. These principles are the result of specific recommendations such as giving data unique and permanent identifiers and metadata for the purpose of searches, using communication protocol that anyone can use for the purpose of access, adopting description language that can be widely applied for the purpose of interoperation, and granting clear licenses for reuse.

Reference：NBDC-FAIR principles (Japanese translation of "THE FAIR DATA PRINCIPLES") https://biosciencedbc.jp/about-us/report/fair-data-principle/

This is an academic journal in which all collection theses receive open access publishing. Because it usually uses the Gold OA method that becomes free of charge as a result of authors paying APC, it is also referred to as a "Gold OA journal."

This refers to a thesis that has not yet received peer review and has not yet been published.

This is a thesis posted in a subscription journal but that is a thesis for which public disclosure has been conducted on the publishing company's website, free of charge, with no granting of a license.

This refers to the creator and the date that are added to information or data for the purpose of searching for that information or data. It is called "data-related data" or "information-related information." In particular, it is often used for information related to Internet information sources.

Of the transformative agreements, this is an agreement model that makes it possible to publish a thesis by using OA, without the researcher who belongs to the agreement organization individually paying APC, by combining the electronic journal subscription charge and the OA publishing charge that corresponds to APC as one agreement and paying them as a lump sum.

Reference：https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/services/open/gold/apc