Open Access Catherine Boden, Health Sciences Liaison LibrarianDavid Fox, Head of Monographs

Presentation to the Musculoskeletal Journal ClubCollege of Kinesiology March 9, 2011

Overview What is open access? What motivated(s) the Open Access Movement? Practical issues in publishing OA journals or in

institutional repositories.

Feel free to ask questions at any time!

Influences in Motivating Change in Scholarly Communication

Serials Crisis

Copyright & Digital Materials

Internet Technologies

SCHOLARLY CULTURE

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Budapest-Bethesda-Berlin definition:“By "open access" to this literature, we mean its 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. “ (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-04.htm#progress)

10 Flavours of OA (Willinsky, 2005; Appendix A)

1. Home page OA2. E-print archive (e.g., Biomed Central)3. Author fee4. Subsidized5. Dual-Mode6. Delayed7. Partial8. Per Capita9. Indexing10. Cooperative (e.g., Open Medicine)

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OA Publishing E.g., Open Medicine, PLoS

Green Archiving in a repository E.g., repositories such as

Biomed Central or institutional repositories

Two Strategies for Open Access

Removal of barriers to accessa) Breaking down the divide between “haves” and

“have-nots” Scholarly

a) Accelerates the dissemination of knowledge• OA journals citation advantage*• e-publishing format enables faster access

b) Liberalization of author permissionsc) Increase your research citation impact

• OA journals citation advantage*

Reasons to publish in an OA Journal

* e.g., Hajjem, Harnad & Gingras, Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of growth of open access and how it increases Research Citation Impact

From Fox (2010) Open access publishing overview.

Publishing in OA Journals How do you find OA journals in your discipline?

a) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) How do you find the impact factor of a journal?

a) Web of Scienceb) Scopusc) But….not all can be found this way

Who pays the author fee?a) Research fundsb) Other…

OA Journals in KinesiologyJournal Impact Factor Author Processing Charge

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

2.6 £1035/US$1680/€1215

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2.2 £1175/US$1905/€1380

PLoS Biology 12 $2900

Barriers to “Gold” OA

Assumes access to the internet Controversy of OA citation advantage. Misperceptions – peer-review, quality,

impact Perceived/real impact on tenure/promotion Who pays for it?

The green alternative… Publish in a subscription journal but deposit in

institutional repositories Satisfy funding agency mandates

a) NIH – 2005b) CIHR – 2008c) NSERC – policy pending

Be aware of your rights and the rights of the copyright holder.

Determining and retaining author rights

SHERPA/RoMEO (Nottingham)a) self-archiving permissions

SPARC Canadian Author Addenduma) User Guide

tool for retaining author’s rights

ResourcesLearn more about OA UoS OA libguide - http://libguides.usask.ca/open_access OAISIS Open Access Sourcebook – http://www.openoasis.org/

Author Tools SPARC Canadian Authors Addendum -

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/author/author-e.html#addendum SHERPA/RoMEO (publishers’ copyright and archiving policies) -

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ SHERPA/Juliet (research funders’ OA policies) -

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php

Author Rights SPARC FAQ’s - http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/ Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/