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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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• 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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• www.openaccess.be• [email protected]/• [email protected] • www.openaire.eu • Twitter @openaccess_be • Facebook ‘Open Access Belgium’ • 0032 9 264 94 72
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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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