Module 2: Health and Natural Sciences

Some disciplinary traits

Sciences and Engineering: Multi-authorship

Cancer & Nursing Studies : Communication and engagement with practitioners and policy-makers

Snapshot of Publication outputs by discipline

Snapshot of Research characteristics

Research Information Network Report (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding, http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Communicating-knowledge-report.pdf

The Research Publication Landscape: An Overview

The most important types of scholarly publication include:

Source: Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009. Björk B-C, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, et al. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11273. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 (2010)

OA availability (by discipline)An example of analyses of 2008 figures

Resources for finding Open Access Research in Natural and Health Sciences

• Open Access Repositories– Arxiv www.arxiv.org – PMC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

• Open Access Journals– DOAJ www.doaj.org – BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com – PLoS www.plos.org

• Open Access Data– See further.

INSDC has been developed and maintained collaboratively for over 18 years between

GenBank National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan of National Institute of Genetics

Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets

Example I: INSDC www.insdc.org

Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets

Example II: Pangaea

• Pangaea www.pangaea.de The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access

library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions

Areas: Water, Sediment, Ice & Atmosphere

What can you do:

• 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

• Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher

• Deposit your articles or data in a subject or institutional repository

• Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to

• Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies

Open up, get practical!

Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008

Remember it takes only 10 minutes per paper to self-archive!