Ways to Open Access Sophia Jones Centre for Research Communications (CRC) University of Nottingham.

Ways to Open Access

Sophia JonesCentre for Research Communications (CRC)

University of Nottingham

Open Access

Visibility (The citation advantage of open access articles, Michael Norris,

2008)

Subscription costs

Central storage and preservation

Research funders’ requirements (SHERPA Juliet: www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet)

How to make publications Open Access

OA Journals http://www.doaj.org/ - Hybrid Journals (69 publishers listed in RoMEO)

Open Access Publications Fund

Research Innovation Services

[email protected] [email protected]

How to make publications Open Access

OA repositories http://www.opendoar.org

Store digital copies of research materials and make them freely available online

Nottingham Eprints: [email protected]

Publication and self-archiving

Author writes paper

Submits to journal

Paper refereed

Revised by author

Author submits final version

Published in journal

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Checking publisher’s policy on OA

www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Over 90% of journals allow archiving of journal

articles, subject to conditions In most cases they allow archiving of the

author’s final version A few publishers have embargo periods (e.g. 6

months) which need to be spent before papers can be made available

Nottingham ePrintseprints.nottingham.ac.uk

DART Europe – www.dart-europe.eu

http://etheses.nottingham.ac.ukhttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ris/local/funding-opportunities/index.php

References Nottingham ePrints http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk Nottingham eTheses http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk SHERPA JULIET (funder policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/ SHERPA ROMEO (publisher policies)http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

Hybrid OA options http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/paideoa.html OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org Directory of OA Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Additional reading:

Peter Suber’s Blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html SHERPA info & advice http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html#whatoa Houghton Report, and comments

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx

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