Self archiving policies of Geology and Geosciences Journals

Open access is the movement gaining momentum throughout the globe. OA Journals and OA Archives are the two major vehicles of Open Access. To have greater access and visibility to the scholarly publication, one solution is Self Archiving. It is achieved in three ways; by putting the published article on personal websites, by archiving it on institutional repository or by archiving it in open archives. In this paper, a study has been carried out to trace the self archiving policies of Geology journals. Total 110 journals in the subject category of Geology and Geosciences and other Multidisciplinary journals indexed by Science Citation Index were selected and Sherpa Romeo database was taken to trace the copyright policies of the publishers of these journals. The study reveals that maximum publishers are under Green category and allow self archiving.