Extending research impact by Open Access publishing

Rachel Henderson, Library

11 April 2023

Session plan

Introduction

Open Access/impact context

Rethinking impact

Using social media

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Introduction

Why library involvement?Royal Society published first journal of research findings 1665

Libraries provide an indexed archive for print journals to encourage ‘scholarly communication’

Online versions of journals emerged, making sharing much easier

Libraries promote ways to access research data – apply ‘metadata’ to enable search to be easier

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Definitions

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” Peter Suber http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm accessed 19.2.13

Budapest Open Access Initiative 2002 http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read

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Context

Impact – RAE/REF exercises – citation scores

Open Access

– Finch group report 2012

- RCUK OA policy from April 2013

- HEFCE policy for REF2020 currently in consultation

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Rethinking impact

http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/research-assessment-to-support-research-impact

The difficulty of measuring

Timescales for impact

Who is the impact affecting?

Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29804/

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How to make your work Open Access

‘Green’ Open Access

Self-archive – use an institutional or subject repository

License your copyright, don’t assign it

If using a publisher check Sherpa Romeo for restrictions http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Repository will get more hits than a web page (Google indexing)

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How to make your work Open Access

‘Gold’ Open Access

Publication in a journal that makes the article immediately available

License your copyright, don’t assign it

Repository will get more hits than a web page (Google indexing)

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Using social media

blogs, Twitter

http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/2012/12/12/top-10-tips-on-how-to-make-your-open-access-research-visible-online-published-in-jisc-inform/

Storify http://storify.com/CameronNeylon/conversation-on-how-plos-paper-reached-its-audienc

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References

http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/collections/researchsupport/openaccess

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

http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

http://sparceurope.org/

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/