The document discusses open access publishing and provides information on various related topics. It defines open access as providing unrestricted online access to scholarly articles. It describes the types of open access publishing as green (self-archiving) and gold (publishing in an open access journal). Benefits of open access publishing are outlined for authors, students, libraries, universities and others. Tools for identifying predatory journals and checking copyright policies, such as DOAJ, ROMEO and SHERPA/RoMEO, are also mentioned.