open access information session 2013

Open Access:

Maximize the Impact of your Research

Allison Bell, Sarah Forbes, Pam King, Gail NicholUniversity of Toronto Libraries

What is Open Access?Simple Definition:

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

(from http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/01/a-simple-definition-for-open-access_8.html)

What is Open Access?Full Definition:“… free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)From: http://

www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations

Why is OA important?

• Ensures access to all researchers, rather than what they (or their school) can afford

• Enhances interdisciplinary research

• Can increase the visibility, readership and impact of author’s works

• Public funding = public access to results

From: http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/why-oa.shtml

Growth of Open Access

From: “The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009”http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961

Open Access in the NewsSetting the stage for the next decade of open access. Toronto Star, 9/16,12

Journal Archive Opens Up (Some). Inside Higher Ed, 1/9/13

The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing. theguardian, 10/22/12

Major research council opts for open access policy. University World News, 1/10/13

Open-Access of U.K.-Funded Science Papers Will Start in 2013. Nature News Blog, 7/16/12

Open access publishing way to bridge the knowledge gap in higher education. Business Daily, 1/8/13. Nairobi.

Gold & Green

• Gold OA - the publisher makes the final published article freely available (BMJ, PLoS)

• Green OA – author deposits a copy of publication in a open electronic archive (T-space, arXiv)

More information: http://svpow.com/2012/11/16/tutorial-19b-open-access-definitions-and-clarifications-part-2-gold-and-green

http://www.openaccessmap.org/

EU and UK – OA progress

• Horizon 2020, the EU's Research & Innovation funding programme for 2014-2020

• UK Finch Report: “Removing paywalls that surround taxpayer funded research will have real economic and social benefits. It will allow academics and businesses to develop and commercialise their research more easily and herald a new era of academic discovery.”

Funding Agency Mandates

• Sherpa Juliet: www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

• NIH Public Access Policy

• CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs

• SSHRC Policy on Open Access

• NSERC Use of Grant Funds

Finding OA journals

• Ulrich’s Periodical Directory: http://uoft.me/ulrichs

Finding OA journals

http://www.doaj.org

SHERPA RoMEO• Browse or search journal titles to

determine the degree of openness

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

OA books

• DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) approx. 1215 Academic peer-reviewed books from 33 publishers http://www.doabooks.org/

• OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Library lists 900+ books. http://www.oapen.org/home

Author rights• Traditional publishing agreements

often require that authors grant exclusive rights to the publisher

• SPARC Author Addendum enables authors to retain rights:

http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/author_rights

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries, carl-abrc.ca

More on Author rights

See:

http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/author_rights

UTL Initiatives

• Open Access Author Fund Pilot• Open Access Week (Oct 21-27, 2013)• Focus on Research• T-Space• Journal Production Services (JPS)• Open Conference Services (OCS)

For Help or Information on Open Access:

Contact your subject librarianhttp://resource.library.utoronto.ca/liaison

Thank you!

• Scholarly Communication Guide: http://uoft.me/scholcomm

• Open Access Week at U of T: http://uoft.me/oaweek