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“In the Tampere higher education community, researchers publish their research results in the most feasible and appropriate publishing channels, which are of the highest quality and have significant impact. As part of preparing the research process, the researcher should draft a publication plan where he/she defines how his/her publications will be opened. The publication plan takes into account the funder’s requirements and the costs that may arise from open publishing. Scientific publications may be opened in three ways. Gold Open Access means that the article or book is immediately published as open. Hybrid Open Access means that a published research article can become openly accessible by paying an extra fee. Green Open Access means that a publication is self-archived in an institutional or a subject-based repository. Publishers stipulate a possible embargo, after which a parallel version may be opened- In the Tampere higher education community, scientific publications are opened up either in parallel versions or in high-quality Gold Open Access channels, if the latter exist in the field. If the publisher does not allow self-archiving or the embargo set by the publisher is unreasonably long, a researcher may, in exceptional cases, publish his/her article as a hybrid. In the Tampere higher education community, all scientific publications are self-archived unless the publisher prevents it. Tampere University publishes doctoral dissertations and other theses openly unless prohibited by the terms of an external publisher. Tampere University of Applied Sciences publishes theses openly in the Theseus Repository.” (Tampere higher education community, 2018, p. 4)