open access: learn. share. advance

Marinus SwanepoelAka: Ninaisskaikkimaani

The term “scholarly communication” is often used as shorthand for peer-reviewed publishing, traditionally the primary way a discipline advances. But in the broadest sense it includes how scholars find information, create knowledge, and communicate among themselves, with students, and beyond the academy with other audiences.

Open Access (OA) is perhaps the most important development in

scholarly communications in recent years.

Generally speaking, Open Access content is scholarly material that

is:

Freely available on the World Wide Web

The reader has barrier free access to it

There are no pay-per-view fees or subscriptions

It is also normally free of many licensing and copyright restrictions.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Why Open Access?

The Open Access movement came about as a result of several factors, including:

The desire of academic authors to disseminate the results of their research more widely

and increase the impact of their work.

The desire of academic authors for more control over their works, instead of signing all or most rights away to commercial publishers.

The motivation that the results of taxpayer-funded research should be made accessible to everyone.

(We work for the common good of society.)

The high cost of scholarly journals, which have increased in price annually beyond the rate of

inflation for many years.

Roads to Open Access

The Green road, or self-archiving, involves the deposition of article pre-prints and/or post-prints in repositories. These repositories can be institutionally-based,

or they can be connected to specific disciplines, such as arxiv for Physics or RePEc for Economics.

The repositories are inter-operable and can be searched with tools such as Google Scholar and OAIster. Most publishers allow articles to be deposited in these repositories; see this list.

The Gold road is open access publishing. New journals are being created which are fully open access and old journals are being converted to OA. In addition, there are "hybrid" publishing programs which make articles openly accessible on an individual article basis.

The Directory of Open Access Journals keeps track of the growing number of these journals. http://www.doaj.org/

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Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

In February 2015, CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC

unveiled a harmonized open access policy.

RationalAs publicly funded organizations, the Agencies have a fundamental interest in promoting the availability of findings that result from the research they fund, including research publications and data, to the widest possible audience, and at the earliest possible opportunity.

Societal advancement is made possible through widespread and barrier-free access to cutting-edge research and knowledge, enabling researchers, scholars, clinicians, policymakers, private sector and not-for-profit organizations and the public to use and build on this knowledge.

Policy Objective

to improve access to the results of Agency-funded research, and to increase the dissemination and exchange of research results.

All researchers, regardless of funding support, are encouraged to adhere to this policy.

Policy Statement:Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

Grant recipients are required to ensure that any peer-reviewed journal publications arising from Agency-supported research are freely accessible within 12 months of publication. Recipients can do this through one of the following routes:

a) Online Repositories

b) Journals

http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F6765465-1

Online RepositoriesGrant recipients can deposit their final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an institutional or disciplinary repository that will make the manuscript freely accessible within 12 months of publication.

It is the responsibility of the grant recipient to determine which publishers allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies.

Journals

Grant recipients can publish in a journal that offers immediate open access or that offers open access on its website within 12 months.

Some journals require authors to pay article processing charges (APCs) to make manuscripts freely available upon publication.

The cost of publishing in open access journals is an eligible expense under the Use of Grant Funds.

These routes to open access are not mutually exclusive.

Researchers are strongly encouraged to deposit a copy of the final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an accessible online repository immediately upon publication, even if the article is freely available on the journal’s website.

Grant recipients must acknowledge Agency contributions in all peer-reviewed publications, quoting the funding reference number (e.g. FRN, Application ID).

Implementation Date

For research funded in whole or in part by NSERC or SSHRC, this policy applies to all grants awarded May 1, 2015 and onward.

While not required, researchers holding grants that were awarded prior to May 1, 2015 are encouraged to adhere to the requirements of this policy.

Thank You

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