Open Access publishing

Rachel Henderson, Library

06 March 2013

Session plan

Introduction

Definitions

Benefits/disadvantages

Ways to make your work open access

Finding open access research

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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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Exercise

In groups spend 5 minutes identifying what you think ‘open access’ means: a definition

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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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Exercise

In groups spend 5 minutes thinking about advantages and disadvantages of open access

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Benefits

“Standing on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton

1676

Increased readership & some evidence of increased

citations

Removes cost barrier for researchers in developing

countries or outside academic institutions

May encourage business collaboration

Increasingly research funders require OA publishing of

the grant outputs

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Disadvantages

Version confusion

Current academic promotion system relies on „prestige‟

journals

Article processing charge (APC) may deter early career

researchers

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Myths

http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/scholarly/mit-open-

access/general-information-about-open-access/dispelling-

myths-about-open-access/#not-c

http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/advocacy12

In fact…

You can retain copyright if you choose

Your IP rights are not affected

There may be peer review/quality control

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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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Finding Open Access material

Metalib Subject category: Open Access

http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals

BL Ethos for UK theses

http://oaister.worldcat.org/ 25 million records worldwide

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Promoting your OA work

Use social media eg 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/

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Open data

Funders increasingly require datasets to be available for

re-use

Complexity of social science data

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/02/12/co

nfidentiality-and-open-access-to-research-data/

Importance of data cleansing as you go along

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References

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

access

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

http://sparceurope.org/

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/