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Open Access (OA) publishing provide free and open access to academic research products (journals, books, reports, theses, etc.)

OA Models

Gold 

Publishing on gold model involves funding, financed by the researcher or academic institution. Payment allows readers free access to the article. The journals titles are listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Green 

Deposit of research material in an institutional archive (Institutional Repository). In this model the article is open to everyone free of charge. The deposit of the academic material takes place during the embargo period or the upload of the pre-print version before publication.

Hybrid 

Published on the hybrid model incorporates the option of choosing between subscribing to the journal or alternatively paying a fee from research funds to the individual article if there is no subscription for the journal.

Advantages of Open Access Publishing

• Science belongs to everyone.
• Exposure to the public & industry that do not subscribe to the journal
• Ability to make an impact policy
• Increase the citations number 

Disadvantages of Open Access Publishing

• Funding needed
• Copyright Issues should take care
• Qaulity control needed

•Predatory Journals    

How to Identify Predatory Journals​

It is important to look carefully at:

• Full details of the journal's address & website
• Full details of the publisher & editors
• What are the research records of the editors
• Use the official DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), which contains the list of authorized publishers & journals that adopt the Open Access Advertising Model

For publishers policy you can look at SHARPA/ROMEO web site 

Books in Open Access main resources: 

•  Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of DOAB Foundation,  a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law.
•  Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN ) promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books .
• Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. 
• Libretexts project, a leading, non-commercial open textbook organization initiated at the University of California, Davis.
• Open Textbooks Library -  library currently includes 766 textbooks, with more being added all the time
• JSTOR E-Books - Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press
• Open Book Publishers -  Independent open access academic publisher of monographs. Free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via our website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere.