open access for postgraduates students
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Talk used with postgraduate (PhD) students at the University of Nottingham to highlight the challenges and opportunties provided by the emerging open access scholarly communication model.
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- 1. Open Access & Nottingham eTheses & ePrints Postgraduate Publishing Workshop Gareth J Johnson, SHERPA, IS [email_address] University of Nottingham, November 2006
- 2. 1) Introduction
- Talk will cover
- Traditional publishing barriers to getting your publications read
- How to improve your readership & professional standing
- Some options to help here at Nottingham
- 3. 2) Barriers
- Ever tried getting hold of an international thesis?
- Does everyone have access to the same journals?
- To ensure that your work is read not enough to just submit/publish
- Publishing and indexing timescales are considerable
- 4. 3) Publishing Barriers
- Research is publicly funded
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- Personal academic efforts
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- Supported by institutions
- Authors sign away rights with publishers in order to publish
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- Given away freely to publishers
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- Publishers make huge proit$
- Author gets no tangible reward
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- And loses rights to copy material for colleagues, teaching etc
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- Institution potentially loses out on its investment
- 5. 4) Cost Barriers
- Not all libraries can subscribe to all journals
- During the period 1998-2003
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- RPI +11%
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- Journal +58%
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- Library budgets -29%
- Increasing prices decrease effective readership
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- Even in the affluent West
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- Nottingham pays between 30-9k/journal
- 6. 5) Routes to Read
- Read online journals
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- Most subscription only
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- Cost the University just as much
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- Personal subscriptions never enough
- Obtain material physically
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- Tricky for overseas material
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- Variable or uncertain timescales
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- Cost can be a problem
- 7. 6) Routes to being Read?
- Mount texts on your own site?
- How retrievable?
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- Lower Google rankings for personal sites
- Long term availability
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- What happens in 5-10 years?
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- Will the format still be accessible
- Is it legal?
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- Are you breaching your agreement with the publisher
- 8. 7) Open Access
- Frees research for the good of humanity
- Deposition of research into repositories
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- Electronic versions of any research publication
- Freely available online - no subscription to read
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- A particular constituency can donate
- Timely & rapid communication of ideas
- Sustainability built in
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- Material available for years to come
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- Repositories ensuring continued format accessibility
- Funders
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- Compliance with OA now mandated by some research funders and boards
- 9. 8) Legality
- Who allows it?
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- >90% of journals or 75% of publishers
- Conditions or restrictions
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- Conditions allow deposition provided rules followed
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- E.g. Not publishers version, pre/post print only
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- Restrictions stop immediate deposition
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- E.g. Embargos (6 months-2 years commonly)
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- Open Access Publishing
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- Peer reviewed titles with NO copyright transfer
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- See the DOAJ for over 2000 globally
- Tools to help
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- SHERPA/RoMEO
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- Guide to variations between publishers
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- SHERPA/JULIET
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- Guide to Research Funder requirements
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- 10. 9) Advantages
- Wider global readership
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- Citations are the life blood of an academic career.
- Which means
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- Improved citation rankings
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- Faster communication
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- Improved long term preservation
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- Decreased potential plagiarism
- All leads to better:
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- Personal & professional standing
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- Departmental & Institutional respect/promotion
- 11. 10) Disadvantages
- OA self-archiving not always possible
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- Restrictions from stakeholders & sponsors
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- Rejection risk
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- Ethical or commercial sensitivity
- Dont take risks with your publishing!
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- Can always revisit post-publication
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- Publishers can change policies
- 12. 11) Nottingham repositories
- Two repositories at Nottingham
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- Nottingham ePrints
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- Nottingham eTheses
- Easy to use
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- Submission takes 10 minutes
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- Registration 1 st time only
- Small but growing collection
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- Already high on search engine rankings
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- OpenDOAR service searches
- 13. 12) Hints & Tips
- Save electronic copies of your publications
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- Early versions as well as final
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- Allows you to choose which version to deposit
- DO put your thesis into NETheses & papers into NEP
- Do read and submit to Open Access journals
- DONT be afraid to ask for advice
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