20130418 open access

Open Access:Introduction

Gwen FranckGhent University Library

OpenAIRE project | Open Access Belgium

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• Research

• Free for the end user

• Digital

articles

datasets

OA journals

OA repository

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Why should I care?

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• Increase visibility

• Research available as soon as possible

• Alternatives for the traditional scientific publishing cycle

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• Tax payers’ money should be made available (no ‘triple pay’)

• Research funders mandates

• Support worldwide access to research, not only in ‘rich’ countries

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How

• Archive an open access version of your work in a repositoryOR

• Publish directly in an open access/hybrid journal

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Open Access publishing

• Submit your work to OA Journals• ‘Born OA’ or converted journals• With or without Article Processing Charges/

Author Fees• Level of openness = no indication of quality!• Directory of OA Journals: www.doaj.org – ALL quality OA journals are in DOAJ.

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OA publishing in quality journals ≠ (high) article processing charges/author fees

(by the way: a lot of Open Access journals have a discount or even waiver policy for author fees. So, if you can’t afford it, these are often negotiable! )

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‘Hybrid’ OA

• After paying a fee/charge individual article becomes immediately OA

• End result = – Good because article becomes open but …– Bad because expensive subscriptions for the

whole journal remain necessary• Fastest growing component of OA publishing

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• Quality and Reputation : discipline-specific …

• DOAJ political sciences– http://

www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpId=47&uiLanguage=en

Some scientific domains contain more quality OA journals than others

These are journals in political sciences …

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Self-archiving

• Deposit/Archive research in a repository – Institutional

– Subject/discipline specific

• Better than personal, departmental or project website!

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Self-archiving

• Advantage: – Publish in any journal you want! (also the non-OA

ones)– A majority of publishers (>75%) allow you to make

(a version) of your work OA through self-archiving– Check publisher’s policies on

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ – If not allowed: negotiate!

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Self-archiving

• Immediately or after embargo period (discipline-specific)

• ‘Free’• Main focus of mandates

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What OA is not/should not be

• Extra burden for researchers• Be a hindrance for your career• Taking big chunks out of your research budget• Limiting your choice of journals/prohibiting

you from publishing in the journal you want• Going against the law/publisher’s policies

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It’s not over …

• Mainstreaming – OA is becoming big business (> 20 % of all research

articles)– More attention/ the stakes are raised! – More discussion and debate. Internal differences become

outspoken – From vibrant online only community to mainstream press – More risk of scams: author fees are tempting for frauds

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It’s not over …

• Experimenting– New types of journals (PeerJ, …)– Financing methods– Altmetrics

• Text and data mining• Licensing and copyright issues• Open Access to research data?

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What do you think?

• Are you making your research OA already? Why (not)?

• What can be done on university/government level as an incentive?

• Would you consider taking part of OA initiatives such as new journals, training sessions, …

• How about your research data? • …

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References• 2: Open Access cartoon by Patrick Hochstenbach (@hochstenbach)• 4: ‘Open Access Explained!’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham, Nick Shockey and

Jonathan Eisen• 6:

– Swan Alma, The Open Access citation advantage http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/2/Citation_advantage_paper.pdf

– ‘Journal board resigns’ http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/journals-editorial-board-resigns-in-protest-of-publishers-policy-toward-authors/43149

• 7: http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=78:articles&id=28:developing-countries&Itemid=253

• 9 & 11: ‘APC graphic. Corbyn, Zoe. Price doesn't always buy prestige in open access, Nature 22.01.2013 doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12259

• 16: ‘Nature vs. Science vs. Open Access’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham

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