Open Access Catherine Boden, Health Sciences Liaison Librarian David Fox, Head of Monographs Presentation to the Musculoskeletal Journal Club College of Kinesiology March 9, 2011
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)
Gold
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/