Workshop at Oxford on publishing for early career researchers - April 2011

Open publishing: its future and what it offers you as a researcher
Dr Neil Jacobs

What is “open”?
Permissions
Cost
Time
Papers
Monographs
Theses
Data

Why might you care?
Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report , School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

Is this convincing?
A General OA Advantage: the advantage that comes from citable articles becoming available to audiences that had not had access to them before, and who would find them citable
An Early Advantage: the earlier an article is put before its worldwide potential audience may affect subsequent citation patterns
A Selection Bias: authors make their better articles Open Access more readily than their poorer articles
A Quality Advantage: better articles gain more from the General OA Advantage because they are by definition more citable than poorer articles
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Why might Oxford care?
Widespread use of repositories gives:
£115m p.a. efficiency savings (mainly researchers saving time in reading / writing)
£172m p.a. benefits to the UK economy (innovation, improved practice)
Cost-benefit ratios (depending on assumptions) up to 50:1 and more
(before any potential subscription cancellations)
Bibliometrics... Impact... Reporting... Planning...
REF
Research Councils mandates, reporting
(Houghton, J, et al, 2009, Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx)

Is this convincing?
Issues with the transition to OA
Funding OA publishing
Transparency in payments
Practical arrangements
Getting researchers to put papers into repositories!
What would it take?
Need to be much clearer about how benefits arise to UKplc
Future of learned societies reliant on subscription income
Longer term future of publishing – data, blogs, facebook...

How to be open: 1. doctoral theses
Electronic management, submission and sharing of theses
Real need for an opt-out in some cases...
But also red herrings...
UK E-Thesis Service – EThOS
Theses harvested from Oxford’s repository
Theses digitised if not available electronically
UK service, but part of wider European and international network

How to be open: 2. research papers
Put your papers in Oxford’s repository ORA
Papers will feature in Google Scholar, EconomistsOnline, etc, and be easily accessible by the people you want to read and cite them

ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk

Papers will feature in Google Scholar, Econlit, etc, and be easily accessible by the people you want to read and cite them
Publish in an Open Access Journal.
185 journals in business and management and 143 journals in economics
Funding from Research Councils – need to include in project bids

www.doaj.org

Papers will feature in Econlit
Publish in an Open Access Journal.
185 journals in business and management and 143 journals in economics
Funding from Research Councils – need to include in project bids
Working papers from the following organisations are already available via Repec:
Saïd Business School
Department of Economics
Nuffield College
Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences
Centre for the Study of African Economies
Queen Elizabeth House

What about copyright?
It’s yours!
Many publishers ask you to give it to them when you publish papers
to develop electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer needs and create maximum dissemination of authors' work.
to protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful copying and any other infringement of copyright.
to recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organizations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services
to provide an efficient service for permissions.
But if you no longer own your work, then there are limits on what you can do with it, in particular
Can you put it on the web for others to read?

www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

It’s yours!
Many publishers ask you to give it to them when you publish papers
to develop electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer needs and create maximum dissemination of authors' work.
to protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful copying and any other infringement of copyright.
to recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organizations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services
to provide an efficient service for permissions.
But if you no longer own your work, then there are limits on what you can do with it, in particular
Can you put it on the web for others to read?
There are alternatives

http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl

You can probably make your research papers openly available, by:
Putting them in ORA
check SherpaRoMEO for your rights
Publishing in an open access journal (get funding for this)
Check DOAJ for open access journals
In either case, you may want to publish using a “licence to publish” rather than handing over your copyright.
And you may want to ask your repository manager and/or publisher for:
Detailed usage statistics – who has downloaded your papers?
Detailed citation statistics – who has cited your papers?

How to be open: 3. monographs
Important because they are disappearing..
And that changes scholarship...
But more complex because
Business models are different
Less funding, especially in arts, humanities and social sciences
Electronic-only has been difficult (but Kindle changes that?)
Nevertheless, pilots underway
Negotiate with your publisher for some rights

How to be open: 4. data
Legally
Whose is it? (and what does that mean?)
In some cases, consent issues
Freedom of Information and equivalent regulations for environmental data
Research practice
Researchers have rights to derive results and papers from their data
But there is are both research and public benefits in some data being more widely available
Policy initiatives
Research Councils agreeing a common position; data management plans...
Data.gov.uk
Infrastructure
Universities are developing significant capacity
(inter)national, eg UK Data Archive, NERC Data Centres, EBI

Open Science?
?? Research communication is changing, part of much wider changes in the ways in which research is done
Open notebook science, sharing data live, as it is collected
Publish in open formats for tools (egtextmining)
Open Access journals and repositories
Open peer commentary, annotation, tagging
Open innovation models with more permissive IPR models
Only publish a summary report of the research
Publish in PDF for human readers
Subscription-based journals
Anonymous peer review
Relations with commercial sector via consultancies and joint projects with closed IPR model
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Neil Jacobs: n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk

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