Swansea University 2013 Open Access: a quiet revolution?
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Development of the Movement
2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative
2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
2012 Finch Report
Open Access: a definition
Users of OA material have the right to
"read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these
articles“ (Budapest Open Access
Initiative, 2002 )
An International Movement
http://www.openaccessmap.org/?p=1#oa_map
Different models are evolving...
Open Access Journal Publishing
There are a growing number of open access
journals and most of the major publishers now
have some kind of open access option
Open Access RepositoriesThe aim of the
Repository Movement... to collect, share and
preserve open access versions of research
papers... or Removing barriers to
current research
Institutional Repositories
Deposit in the repository and increase the visibility
of your work and the university
What is Gold Open Access?Gold = Full free access immediately upon publication
Any charge is paid at the beginning of the publication process by the author or funder rather than by the reader – APC’s
Examples
Biomed CentralPLOS Sage Open
Average cost £1600
What is hybrid Open Access?Traditional subscription journals with an optional OA
article processing charge for individual articles.
What is Green Open Access?Green = Publish conventionally without a fee then deposit
peer reviewed pre-print to a repositoryGreen versions are normally functionally equivalent to published
versions.
Pre-print or Post-print
Author needs to comply with publishers policies
Monographs and Open Access
Monographs and Open Access
http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
Discussion – Open Access: what are the benefits and problems / challenges?• The benefits and problems of open
accesshttp://padlet.com/wall/researchimpact
Why Publish Open Access?
Impact - citation advantage http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Open Access Tools Sherpa Juliet - A summary of policies given by various research funders as part of their grant awards Sherpa Fact – Funders & Authors Compliance Tool Sherpa Romeo – Journal copyright rules
Can you self archive? What embargo periods apply?
How does Swansea University support OA?To find out if your project qualifies and to access the request form
http://www.swan.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/or email [email protected]
ISS can pay the APC Fees
for RCUK funded
research to be published
asCC-BY
RCUK requirements for APC funding
•Your research must be funded by RCUK and acknowledge this in your publication
•It must be for a peer reviewed journal article or conference paper. Other publication types are not covered at present.
•You must be using a gold open access route and a CC-BY licence.
•RCUK policy
Creative commons
The most liberal licence which allows others to use, remix and tweak your work, even commercially provided they credit you for the original creation – not a licence for plagiarism!
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Questions
http://www.scoop.it/t/open-access-for-swansea-researchers/