Post on 23-Jan-2017
With thanks to Chris Awre, UoH
Roger WatsonProfessor of Nursing
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced NursingEditor, Nursing Open
Regions with policies on open access
• Europe
• UK
• Australia
• ...Hong Kong?
UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
“The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication. But this practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they fund fulfil the current requirements.”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
“The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication. But this practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they fund fulfil the current requirements.”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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UK situation
“The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer”
“The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication. But this practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they fund fulfil the current requirements.”
Innovation and Research Strategy for GrowthDepartment of Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011
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Why open access?1
• Improved visibility of research
• Greater impact through wider awareness
• Easier to facilitate and manage use and re-use of outputs
• Demonstrate greater value of publicly-funded research
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Open access
• “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)
– Free of price barriers– Free of permission barriers
• Two common forms– Gold OA
• Usually publication through a journal that makes the output freely and openly available via the Web. Such a journal may charge a fee to publish
– Green OA• Depositing the output in an open access repository that exposes the
outputs freely and openly to the Web (whilst also managing the content)
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Open access options
• Gold– Can publish in completely open access journal
• Directory of Open Access Journals, http://www.doaj.org– Most publishers charge an APC
• Author or Article Processing Charge• Anything from £50 to £3,000
– Hybrid OA option• Pay APC to journal normally charging a subscription to open up your article
• Green– Institutional or subject repository
• Deposit could be to one or other, or both– Repositories may also hold supplementary materials
• E.g., data, reports, etc
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Open access comparison
Intermediary Output
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Organisation
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RCUK Gold OA policy
Intermediary Output
Publisher Article
Publisher
Repository
Article
Article
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Optional
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RCUK Green OA policy
Intermediary Output
Publisher Article
Repository Article
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6/12 months
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Wiley Green OA policy
Intermediary Output
Publisher Article
Repository Article
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12/24 months*
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* - depending on subject group and only of final accepted manuscript
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Research publicly funded?
Yes No
Gold OA option available from your publisher?
Yes No
Are APC funds available from research funder?
Green OA after 6 months (AHRC/ ESRC after 12 months)
Yes No
Immediate Gold OA Green OA after 12-24 months
Summary flowchart(RCUK)
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How can you decide which Open Access journal in which to publish?
Considerations
• Cost
• Sustainability
• Reputation
Beware of predatory journals
Copyright and Open Access License
The majority of Wiley Open Access journals publish open access articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A limited number of Wiley Open Access journals offer a choice of Creative Commons Licenses: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY NC) license and Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDerivs License.
Thank you
…Questions?
r.watson@hull.ac.uk