Everything youneed to know

about Open Access

Theo Andrew & Dominic Tate

Scholarly Communications TeamLibrary & University Collections, Information Services

Talk outline

• Background– Types of open access ‘Gold v Green’– Government drivers: Finch report

• Change: research funders expectations• Likely implementation at UoE• Implications• 3 step personal OA strategy

….the world-wide electronic distribution of

scholarly literature… …completely free from restrictions….

….for all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds.

is….

Gold open access

• Peer reviewed journals• publication costs are met by the research

funder through APCs, rather than subscriptions,

• articles are licensed in ways which allow others to reuse these works, subject to attribution.

• Average cost £1000

Green open access

• publish in a subscription journal, • self-archive copies of papers in suitable place, – e.g. PURE Research Explorer

• Journal copyright policy permitting:– Rule of Thumb: author's refereed, revised final

draft is OK for institutional web pages/ repository

MOOCs @ Edinburgh 2013: Report #1

(Hybrid option)

• Subscription journal offering Gold OA on article level basis:– Elsevier sponsored articles– Wiley OnlineOpen option– Royal Society Publishing– Taylor & Francis– SAGE

• Tend to have higher APC ~£2000• Publisher discounts: http://edin.ac/1fFfvYD

Finch report (2012)

“a clear policy direction should be set towards support for publication in open access or hybrid journals, funded by APCs, as the main vehicle for the publication of research, especially when it is publicly funded”

Mark Walport: the UK government’s next science advisor

http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch

RCUK: New policyPeer reviewed research papers that are wholly or partially funded by RCUK:• must be published as Gold or Green OA,• must include details of the funding that

supported the research, • and a statement on how the underlying

research materials – such as data, samples or models – can be accessed.

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The ESRC’s Open Access Policy requires peer-reviewed research papers to be deposited into ESRC impacts and findings research catalogue:

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/impacts-and-findings/research-catalogue/index.aspx

Implementation

• Preference for Gold OA, supported by block grants:– £609,000 for Nov12- April 2013• (Initial pump priming payment)

– £830,000 for 2013/14– £977,000 for 2014/15

• Green OA also acceptable; up to institution to decide.

RCUK targets

• The RCUK is taking a phased approach over the coming five years:

(UoE publishes 4-5000 articles/year; we estimate 1300 of these are funded by RCUK)

Year 2013/1445% (585)

2014/1553%(689)

2015/1660%(780)

2016/1767%(871)

2017/1875%(975)

Gold 410 490 ? ? ?

Green 175 199 ? ? ?

Where does that leave us?

• Large scale shift coming.• Researchers will be exposed to the costs of

publication (previously sheltered by the library).

• Will publishers increase their APCs to maximise profit?

• Will we see proportional reductions in journal subscriptions?

Wellcome Trust OA grant at UoE

Year No.of articles Total cost Mean APC

2007/08 19 £32,712.85 £1,721.73

2008/09 38 £58,648.88 £1,543.39

2009/10 49 £90,304.78 £1,842.95

2010/11 67 £124,359.79 £1,856.11

2011/12 87 £146,687.10 £1,686.06

Total 260 £452,713.40 £1,741.21

APC cost v Impact Factor

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APC observations

• Hybrid journals seem to be more popular venues for Open Access publication, and

• Hybrid journals generally charge more than full OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and

• There is a positive correlation between APC cost and impact factor for both hybrid and full OA journals.

3 step personal OA strategy

1. Save a copy of authors

final manuscript

2. Add docume

nt to PURE

3. Automatically added to the

Edinburgh Research Explorer

www.pure.ed.ac.uk

www.research.ed.ac.uk

Maximise your impact

Further reading

• Impact of Social Sciences LSE blog (5 mins)– http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/201

2/09/18/cash-alone-will-not-cure-the-research-market/

• D-Lib Magazine Sept 2012, Vol 18, No 9/10 (20mins)– http://

www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html

• SPARC OA newsletter #165 (2-3 hours)– http

://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-12.htm

University of Edinburgh

Open Access Services

Dominic Tate, Scholarly Communications Manager

Scholarly Communications Team

One-stop-shop support for local admin staff & academic authors:

– Open Access advice, support, and administration– Copyright & versioning– Sources of funding publication– Research funders open access policies– Open Access Journals (OJS)– Bibliometrics

Suite of online resources:– www.ed.ac.uk/is/open-access-research

Repositories

Management of the University’s Open Access Repositories– Edinburgh Research Archive

• 7000 Open Access Papers

– PURE (Edinburgh Research Explorer)• 10,000 Open Access Papers

Green Project

• The University (via RPG) decided to spend 100% of BIS funding on “Green” Open Access

• Teams of publications assistants in each College, for every School:– Making sure as much of the University’s REF

submission as possible is Open Access– Checking publisher policies to ensure compliance

Gold Open Access Payments

• RCUK Open Access Publication Fund:• For all RCUK-funded authors• Administered on a first-come, first-served basis• Support for academics• Monitoring and reporting for RCUK

• Wellcome Trust APC Payments• Managed by the Library since 2008

Publisher Accounts

Advantages of Publisher Deals

• Lower Bank Charges (one invoice rather than hundreds; £10 per foreign invoice)

• Reduced Staff Admin: 1,500 invoices pa to be processed (a few with prepay)

• Quicker publishing times – single invoices can take 1-2 months

• Easier reporting back to RCUK for Annual Return

openaccess@ed.ac.uk

Copyright & Publisher Policies

• Retention of copyright is important to ensure authors’ rights to re-use and distribute their work as they see fit in the future.

• Moving away from traditional transfer of copyright to a “licence to publish” in which authors retain copyright of their work.

Contact Us

Scholarly Communications TeamEdinburgh University LibraryGeorge SquareEdinburgh, EH8 9LJEmail: openaccess@ed.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)131 651 3850 or (0)131 651 5226