Publishing your papers and

research data in open access

Leon Osinski, IEC / Library

Available under CC BY license

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Open access of your publications

• What is open access? a new business model of publishing in which the costs of

publishing are paid differently: reader paid versus author

paid

Open access is free information: free as in free beer and free

as in free speech

• Why open access? because your research is funded with public money

because your research is unavailable for the scholarly poor

because you retain copyright of your papers

because it increases your visibility as a researcher

• Open access and quality

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Open access and quality [ 1 ]

When choosing a scientific open access journal to publish a paper

in, a researcher is chiefly guided by the quality of the journal. To

assess the quality of an open access journal, you may consider the

following points:

1. Is the journal listed in DOAJ?

See also DOAJ Seal of Appoval

Apart from DOAJ large publishers produce fully open access journals as

part of their business model which they present exclusively on their

websites: Springer (130+), Elsevier (50+), Wiley (20+), Taylor & Francis

(16), Nature Publishing Group (17) and Oxford Publishing (15)

2. Is the journal listed in Web of Science?

Open access journals that are covered by Web of Science [only

journals of SCI part of WoS]

Journals from all 3 parts of WoS

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Open access and quality [ 2 ]

3. Is the journal listed in Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report?

An overview of open access journals with an impact factor assigned by

Thomson Reuters [2009]

Very often open access journals are young journals and therefore don’t

have an impact factor yet. Because of that, initiatives have been started

to develop other quality criteria for open access journals, for example

the transparency of the peer review process.

4. Is the publisher of the journal a member of OASPA?

Open access publishers that are members of the Open Access Scholarly

Publishers Association (OASPA) commit themselves to a code of

conduct with rules that guarantee the quality of the published journals.

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Open access and quality [ 3 ]

5. Is the publisher of the journal listed in Beall’s list of potential, possible,

or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers?

An unforeseen consequence of the open access movement is the rise of

journal publishers that are after a quick profit and not very particular

with quality control (through peer review) of published articles. For an

overview of these so-called predatory publishers, see Beall’s List with

criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers.

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Open access of research data

1. Why publish your research data? Scientific integrity [verification of results]

Re-use of research data to advance science [publishing your

data in ways that are intelligible, assessable and usable]

To increase your visibility

2. Where to publish your research data? 3TU.Datacentrum

DANS

Figshare

Dryad

Data journals

Integration with your paper

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References

1. Open Access Coach TUe: http://www.tue.nl/openaccess

2. National Dutch open access website: http://www.openaccess.nl

3. The effect of open access on citation impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

4. DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org

5. DOAJ Seal of Approval: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=303&uiLanguage=en

6. Springer OA journals: http://www.springeropen.com/journals

7. Elsevier OA journals: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals

8. Wiley OA journals: http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html?page=1

9. Taylor & Francis OA Journals: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals

10. Nature Publishing Group OA Journals: http://www.nature.com/libraries/open_access/index.html

11. Oxford Publishing OA Journals: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/

12. Journals covered by Web of Science (SCI part): http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-

bin/linksj/opensearch.cgi

13. Journals covered by Web of Science (all three parts):

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/294074.html

14. Open access journals with an impact factor: http://wowter.net/2011/01/06/the-impact-factor-of-open-access-

journals/

15. OASPA: http://oaspa.org

16. Beall’s List: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

17. TUe Repository: http://repository.tue.nl

18. Sherpa-Romeo: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

19. 3TU.datacentrum: http://data.3tu.nl

20. DANS: http://www.dans.knaw.nl

21. Figshare: http://figshare.com

22. Dryad: http://datadryad.org/

23. Example of data journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2049-6060

24. Example of integration data in paper: http://f1000research.com/articles/1-3/v1

25. How to write great papers…: http://www.uni-

jena.de/unijenamedia/Downloads/faculties/bio_pharm/iew/University+Jena+Publishing+Connect+Worksho

p+May+2013.pdf

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Open access and repository

If you don’t want to publish your paper in an open access journal or

your research group or funder cannot afford it, you may choose to

re-publish your paper (or dissertation) in our TUe repository [self

archiving].

Check out Sherpa-Romeo if this is permitted [publisher copyright

policies]