Presented at the University of Canterbury Gradfest, "Where to publish" is a short presentation designed to help new postgraduate students think about new and non-traditional modes of publishing, such as Institutional and disciplinary repositories, the difference between gold and green Open Access, and other ways to make research more visible.

1. Where to publish
Anton Angelo
Research Data Co-ordinator
Peter Lund
Academic Liaison Manager
UC Library

2. Agenda
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Changing landscape of scholarly publishing
Open access
UC Research Repository
Journal impact measures
Article impact metrics

3. Where are you publishing now?
Who has
had
something
published?
Where did
you get it
accepted?
How did
you find
out where
to submit
it?

4. Changing landscape
Serials
Crisis
Funders
mandates
Scholarly
Publishing
PLOS /
ArXiv /
Research
Gate
Finch
report

5. Benefits of Open Access
• Satisfies the requirements of research funders
requiring open access publication, such as Marsden, UK
Research Councils, the NIH, Wellcome Trust and many
others - see SHERPA/JULIET. NZ National Science
Challenges also require open data.
• Bigger impact - potential for greatly increased
dissemination and citation advantage
• Ameliorates the effects of the serials crisis
• More equitable impact – access is for all, not just those
who can afford journal subscriptions.
• Supports technology transfer of UC research to the
community and to business

6. Citation advantage of OA
Size of OA citation advantage when found
(and where explicitly stated by discipline)
Physics/astronomy
% increase in citations with Open Access
170 to 580
Mathematics
35 to 91
Biology
-5 to 36
Electrical engineering
51
Computer science
157
Political science
86
Philosophy
45
Medicine
Communications studies (IT)
Agricultural sciences
300 to 450
200
200 to 600
Alma Swan (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: studies and results to date - ePrints Soton. Retrieved May 6, 2013,
from http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/

7. Who pays?
Gold
• Journal Articles
• Payment from author
(research grant, or
centrally funded?)
• Predatory publishing?
• Double Dipping?
Green
• Articles, Theses,
Data…
• Funded from
institution?
• Rigorous review?

8. Green route: UC Research Repository
3,220
4,326
Preprints
of PBRF
Research
Theses
• Over 3 million item downloads to date
• 2nd biggest IR in NZ

9. UC Research Repository
• Demonstration

10. Popular UCRR Theses
Thesis
Lloyd, Caleb Charles (2009) A Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engine for Power Generation.
Thesis for Master of Engineering, University of Canterbury. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
Downloads
27,465
Lohmeyer, Martin (2008) The Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands Dispute. Thesis for Master of Law, University 21,142
of Canterbury. Law.
Pawlowski, Ilona Paulina (2007) Sex in Women's Magazine Advertising An analysis of the degree of
sexuality in women's magazine advertising across age demographics and women's responses..
Thesis for Master of Arts, University of Canterbury. Political Science and Communication.
19,218
Ember, Adrienna (2008) Enlarged Europe, shrinking relations? the impacts of Hungary's EU
membership on the development of bilateral relations between New Zealand and Hungary. Thesis
for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury. Thesis for Master of Arts, University of
Canterbury. European Studies.
16,595

11. Popular UCRR Articles
Research Output
Downloads
Cubrinovski, M., Ishihara, K. (2001) Correlation between penetration resistance
and relative density of sandy soils. Istanbul, Turkey: 15th International Conference
on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 27-31 Aug 2001. 393-396.
12,651
Schurr, Vida.(2009) Assessment for learning in infant and toddler education and
care : a study of teachers' talk and practice at one centre. University of Canterbury.
College of Education
10,131
Bell, S.C., Bodger, P.S. (2007) Power Transformer Design Using Magnetic Circuit
Theory and Finite Element Analysis - A Comparison of Techniques. Perth, Australia:
Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC) 2007, 9-12 Dec
2007. Proceedings of the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference
(AUPEC) 2007, 6pp.
9,358
Pampanin, S., Calvi, G.M., Moratti, M. (2002) Seismic Behavior of R.C. BeamColumn Joints Designed for Gravity Only. London: 12th European Conference on
Earthquake Engineering, Sep 2002. 726.
7,495
Fee, C.J., Van Alstine, J.M. (2005) PEG-proteins: Reaction engineering and
separation issues. Chemical Engineering Science, 61(3), pp. 924-939.
6,852

12. International mandates
• ROARMAP - list of universities with an institutional mandate
• 180 universities internationally have institutional mandates
• (Including: Imperial College, Edinburgh, Nottingham, MIT, QUT, Princeton, Trinity
College Dublin, ...)

13. 3rd party ‘repositories’
ArXiv
Physical sciences archive – preprint repository
http://arxiv.org/
PLoS
Reviewed ‘journal’
http://www.plosone.org/
Research
Gate
Commercial research repository
Impact
Story
Article Level Metrics – Impact beyond scholarly citations
PeerJ
Arts /humanities focused ‘journal’
https://www.researchgate.net/home.Home.html
http://impactstory.org/
https://peerj.com/

14. ISI Journal Citation Reports
What they do
Metrics
Limitations
Demonstration
• Allows comparison and evaluation of journals
using citation data drawn from scholarly and
technical journals. Contains data from journals
in science, technology and social sciences.
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Total Cites
Impact factors
Immediacy Index
Eigenfactor score
• Little use in arts
• Ineffective for new journals
• Access from Library Databases webpage

15. Bibliometrics in JCR
• Total cites - the total number of times that each journal has
been cited by all journals included in the database within
the current JCR year.
• Impact Factor - identifies the frequency with which an
average article from a journal is cited in a particular year.
• Immediacy Index - measures how frequently the average
article from a journal is cited within the same year as
publication. This number is useful for evaluating journals
that publish cutting-edge research.
• Eigenfactor Metrics are based on the JCR cited journal data
and consider not just the counts of citations a journal
receives but also the significance of the journals as a whole
to measure citation influence in the scholarly literature.

16. SJR:
Scimago Journal and Country Rank
What it does
Metrics
Limitations
Demonstration
• The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a
portal that includes the journals and country
scientific indicators developed from the
information contained in the Scopus®
database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can
be used to assess and analyze scientific
domains.
• Total Cites
• H Index
• SJR indcator
• Elsevier
• Covers 19,000 journals

17. SJR bibliometrics
• SJR - measures the journals impact, influence
or prestige. It expresses the average number
of weighted citations received in the selected
year by the documents published in the
journal in the three previous years
• H-Index – the journal’s number of articles (h)
which have received at least h citations over
the whole period

18. Ulrichs Web
What it does
• Contains listings of 300,000 currently
published journals, newsletters, and
annuals, as well as discontinued publications.
It also contains complete names and
addresses of journal publishers.
Limitations
• Use to find Publisher, Absracting and Indexing
databases
Demonstration
• Limnology

19. Making you and your data more visible
Dryad
Figshare
• Biomedical
Data
• Small Fee
• dryaddata.org
• Figures, slides
• Free
• figshare.com
ORCiD
• Identify
Yourself
• Free
• orcid.org

20. Impact
Scholarly
Public
• 17 Million Potential
Viewers
• 3 Billion Potential
Viewers
Impact
Industry
Government
• Research & Development
• Public Policy
Pat Loria http://www.slideshare.net/patloria/pat-loriaaltmetrics-oar-2013

21. Examples of Altmetrics Services
GIT
Facebook
Twitter
SCOPUS
Plumanalytics.com
Impactstory.org
Altmetrics.org
Google
Plus

22. Questions?
For more information
consult the Scholarly Communication subject guide
http://canterbury.libguides.com/scholarly
or contact your liaison librarian.

23. References
• Eysenbach, G. (2006). Citation Advantage of
Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol, 4(5), e157.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
• Swan, A. (n.d.). The Open Access citation
advantage: Studies and results to date ePrints Soton. Retrieved May 6, 2013, from
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/

24. Mandatory deposit of research
Increase
deposit rates
• Opt out rather than opt in to the UC Research
Repository.
• ~12% of PBRF eligible items are currently
deposited.
Already exists
for theses
• Including embargos for sensitive research
Would improve
efficiency
• Removes red tape (e.g. individual deposit
licences)
Commitment
to open access
• Ensures publicly funded research becomes
publically available
• Funders (Marsden, National Health and
Medical Research Council, Australian Research
Council) increasingly require OA.
• OA material more widely cited