Short overview of Open Access Publishing for IDI

Dirk Ahlers

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

1679, Sir Isaac Newton

“Welcome to Open Access, the most exciting and important development in science communication since journals were invented.”

2011, PLoS to Nature

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1533 © Jorge Cham

Buzzwords

• Open Access

• Open Data

• Open Education

• Open Access to scientific literature

• Open Access to scientific data

• Open Data, Linked Open Data

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• Mostly passive, but for us: Also active!

Open Access?

Why?• Enable broader public access to scientific literature

• Remove paywalls

• Independence from publishers

• Explore new publication models

• Improve your citation count ;-)

• Indexability and findability by Google Scholar, Google, MS Academic Search etc.: Another talk

Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

OA has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship.

http://openaccessweek.org/

Open Access Publishing

• Traditional — hybrid — delayed — open

• ‘Green’ (self-archiving)

• ‘Gold’ (fee-based)

• Gratis — Libre OA

Funding

Author

University

Publisher

Readers

Subscription

Author

University

Publisher

Readers

Article processing charges

Grant etc.

Traditional Open Access

Frustration with Publishers

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

Quality?• OA is about the publishing model (and

business model of publishers)

• Questions of peer review, conference vs. journal, impact factors, etc. are not the scope of this talk

• As in common publishing channels, quality relies on publisher, editorial board, reviewers

Challenges• Durability (perpetual Open Access)

• Funding (but compare page charges)

• Licenses

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• Predatory publishers (cf. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ and links at the end)

• Funneling funds to publishers

Two sides: Getting access & providing access

• We want to read papers

• At NTNU relatively easy, many subscriptions are paid.

• But maybe not all publishers, and only from campus (but can use VPN)

• We want our papers to be read

• No influence of how (and IF) others access our papers

• Make it as easy as possible

• Share knowledge

Rights, Permissions, Licenses

• Do you read these?

• You should! And may have more rights than you think!

• Standard licenses

• Public domain

• Creative Commons

• (c) publisher

• (c) author

What can we do?• Public repositories

• arXiv.org (preprints and postprints)

• Self-Hosting

• Check copyright statement

• You often have the right to publish on your own homepage or an institutional repository (cf. www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/)

• ACM authorizer

• Fee-based Open Access

ACM DL Author-Izer

• Allows you to put up one link from your page to the ACM DL page which will bypass the paywall

• Counts towards ACM DL statistic

• Need to register

• Slight delay in availability

OA at NTNU• Suggested/Supported by NTNU and RCN

• Open Access mandate by funding agency? (cf. H2020)

• Annotation of the approved conferences/journals list

• Check Sherpa status https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/

• Self-archiving

• own page

• DiVA via Cristin

• https://innsida.ntnu.no/en/publisering

• Pilot phase 2013-2014

• Journals listed in DOAJ, Only Level 1 & 2 DBH

• Only golden OA, not hybrid or open choice

• Only NTNU-affiliated authorshttps://www.ntnu.edu/documents/8354267/0/publishingfund.pdf

http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/A_boost_for_open_access_to_research/1253997204282/p1177315753918

General Publication Strategy?

Open Data: Well-known examples

• Creative Commons Licenses

• Wikipedia/Wikimedia

• OpenStreetMap

• CC Flickr

• …

Open Data: There is more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data http://data.norge.no/

https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

http://lod-cloud.net/

ToDo!

• Check publishers’ licenses for your papers

• Make them available

• Publish in OA journals if applicable

• Share data

Q&A&D

More links• http://www.openaccess.no/

• http://www.cristin.no/english/open-access-eng/

• http://www.plos.org/open-access/

• http://jlsc-pub.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=jlsc

• http://gvsu.edu/library/sc/open-access-journal-quality-indicators-2.htm

• http://www.mb.vu.lt/en/news/scholarly-communication/lists-open-access-journals-indexed-web-science-and-scopus

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