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Module 2: Social Sciences
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Disciplinairy traits
• Networking, collaborating• Young researchers: publications are a means for career
advancement• Older researchers: publishing are a means for communicating
and contributing to developments in society• Over the years more journals, less monographs• Like to cite!• Lengthy publications• Use of grey literature• Institutional guidelines
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What social scientists produce Social Sciences Citation Index Output
Research Information Network Report, (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding,[Online] Available at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Communicating-knowledge-report.pdf
Source: Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index online version inJonkers, K., (2010), International Social Science Council (ISSC) & UNESCO, (2010), World Social Science Report 2010 , p. 194 [Online] Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188333e.pdf
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Perceptions about OA in the Social Sciences
• Overall, perception that OA is beneficial for research
• 70% of respondents of an HSS survey familiar with OA publishing
• Accessibility and efficiency the most important values of OA
• Tremendous awareness differences per country, younger scholars more familiar with Open Access.
Sources: SOAP Study and OAPEN survey
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OA and publishing values
Digital Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report on User Needs, Janneke Adema, Paul Rutten, OAPEN Project, http://project.oapen.org/images/D315%20User%20Needs%20Report.pdf (Accessed, 28/2/2011)
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Resources for finding Open Access research in the Social Sciences
Repositories• The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR www.opendoar.org • Social Sciences Repository: http://www.ssoar.info/en.html
Open Access Journals• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org – JSTOR: http://about.jstor.org/
Open Access Books– OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks www.oapen.org– Open Monograph Press: www.openmonographpress.org
Open Access Data– CESSDA Council of European Social Science Data Archives: http://www.cessda.org/– World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/ – IMF Archive Material : http://www.imf.org/external/np/arc/eng/archive.htm – International Council on Archives : http://www.ica.org/– International Social Science Council ISSC: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/
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Some other examples of Open Access repositories and research platforms
• EconStor: an Open Access repository for economics publications
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN): devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences
• ISI - Social Indicators Information Service: the largest infrastructure facility in Germany, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, offers a variety of services related to the social sciences
• European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) an Open Access Infrastructure to bring Essential Cultural Heritage Online
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What can you do:
• Deposit your articles or data in an IR or a subject repository
• Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher
• Ask your publisher for Open Access options
• Publish in an Open Access journal or with an Open Access Book publisher
• Encourage your editorial board to support OA
• Participate in an editorial board of an OA journal
• Convert out of print works to digital objects and deposit them in a repository
• Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to
• Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies
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Open up, get practical!
Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008
Remember it takes only 10 minutes per
paper to self-archive!