open access publishing, 2014 / uk version
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Open access publishing - what is it, why do I want to do it and how should I do it?TRANSCRIPT
Open access publishing
UK / Plymouth Uni
BGC Seminar2014-03-12
Based on a seminar developed with C. de Jonge, E. Svensson (NIOZ)
Sabine Lengger
How does/did academic publishing work?
University /
Institute
Researcher = Author
Article
Journal
Publishing
companySociety
funds
pays produce given to
belo
ngs
to
pays
pays
pays
review
Academic publishing since 1665
- Quick- Necessary (actual print!)- Affordable
What happened?
Cost explosion
Internet
Funding sources
Boycott
What is open access?
Accessibility
Free, as in “a free beer”
Copyright
Free, as in “free speech”
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge
Benefits of open access
Authors
Readers Teachers & Students
Libraries
Universities
Journals and publishers
Funding agencies
Governments
Citizens
REF 2020
Types of OA
OA journals (gold OA)
OA archives or repositories (green OA)
GOLD open access
University /
Institute
Researcher = Author
Article
Journal
Publishing
companySociety
funds
pays produce given to
belo
ngs
to
payspays
review
GOLD open access Journals Publication fees
Article processing Or free
Non-profit / Profit PLoS BMC
Many hybrid journals Offer both!
Peer review
How to publish in GOLD open access http://doaj.org Directory of open access journals (no hybrid journals!)
Charges … > £1000
UKRC Gives a block grant to universities based on how much UKRC funding they attracted 45 – 75 % of publishing costs University expected to match this
Plymouth University Distributes to schools in proportion of UKRC grants (£41k) Non-UKRC projects: use their own funds
EU funding (Horizon 2020) Costs during the project lifetime can be accounted for in the grant Costs afterwards: European Research Infrastructures Work Programme
PU Intranet: https://intranet.plymouth.ac.uk/pearl/intranet.htm
GREEN open access
OA repositories – self archiving
Do not perform peer review
Types Preprints Postprints Data repositories
Indexed and google searchable!
Preprint servers
Manuscript before peer-review
Directories of repositories http://www.opendoar.org/ http://roar.eprints.org/ http://www.openoasis.org/
Be careful – pre-published! Ingelfinger rule
ACS journals, Science http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_preprint_policy
Postprint servers Manuscript after peer-review
Pre-copy editing Post-copy editing
Plymouth: PEARLhttp://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk http://elements.plymouth.ac.uk
Directory of open access repositorieshttp://www.opendoar.org/search.php
Nicola Cockarill
Higher Education Institution repository (HEI)
Which journals allow self-archiving?
Postprints (and pre-prints): Elsevier, Hindawi, Springer, …
Pre-prints only: Wiley, post-prints after 12 months
None: American Chemical Society Check on: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Data repositories
Open lab notebook – http://schamberlain.github.com/scott/blog.html
http://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html
Problems with open access
Who pays? REF2020
Predatory publishers http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Preprints: Peer review
Who‘s afraid of peer review?
Bohannon (2013), Science 342, 60-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.342.6154.60
Beall’s list: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/oa-answers/ = provided by a project funded by JISC, a HEFCE and Government funded organisation which supports HE in it’s use of digital technologies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/15concerns.html = provided by Sherpa, which is based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham. Sherpa is a consortium of research-led universities with experience of running repositories.
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/ = provided by a
team at the University of Southampton, who have developed an open source repository software product called E-Prints and are strong supporters of Open Access.
Email: [email protected]
Further reading
Slide: N. Cockarill
So? Open access summary.
Purpose: ... the purpose of OA is not to punish or undermine expensive journals, but to provide an accessible alternative and take full advantage of new technology —the internet— for widening distribution and reducing costs. Moreover, for researchers themselves, the overriding motivation is not to solve the journal pricing crisis but to deliver wider and easier access for readers and larger audience and impact for authors.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
What can you do?
Use available open access funds Check journal policies before submission Deposit preprints on servers Deposit postprints on PEARL or other HEI
repositories Share data Link on networking sites to posters,
presentations, data, …