This document provides an overview of open access (OA) publishing and its benefits. It discusses how OA provides free access to scholarly works online, benefiting readers, authors, and fields of study. Both "gold" OA journals that are open from inception, and "green" OA that allows authors to self-archive in repositories, are covered. While traditional publishers claim most readers have access via libraries, the presentation argues that OA benefits many beyond academic institutions as well. Peer review and impact are independent of open access status.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Sherpa provides two tools - SHERPA/RoMEO and SHERPA/FACT - to help researchers comply with open access mandates from their funders. SHERPA/RoMEO allows users to search publisher and journal policies on copyright and self-archiving. SHERPA/FACT combines RoMEO and JULIET data to indicate a journal's open access compliance based on the user's selected funder and publication stage. Both tools aim to help unlock the potential of research by facilitating open access.
The document discusses the history and development of open access initiatives for scholarly publications. It notes several important declarations from 2002-2005 that supported open access, including making publications freely available online. It describes how open access initiatives aim to unite organizations in supporting free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research. The document also discusses definitions of open access, copyright considerations, launching open access journals, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative of 2002.
This document provides an overview of open access from the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge. It defines open access, discusses its benefits for researchers and the public, and outlines the open access policy landscape in the UK including policies from HEFCE, RCUK, and COAF. It also covers open access models like gold, green, and hybrid open access; version control; paying article processing charges; complying with policies as an author with multiple affiliations; and how to find and request open access articles. The key message is to deposit accepted manuscripts in a repository at the time of acceptance.
Open Access (OA) is a system provide access to knowledge resources with free of cost and other restrictions. This PPT answer to the questions what, why, types, benefits etc. and also describes the creative commons licensing, concept of predatory journals, open access journals, and Sharpa RoMeO.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
This document discusses open access resources and the open access movement. It begins by explaining that most research is publicly funded but published in expensive journals, making the results inaccessible to most. The open access movement aims to make all research findings available to society. It describes various definitions and initiatives to promote open access, such as allowing authors to self-archive works in institutional repositories and publish in open access journals. Examples are given of important open access resources and publishers like DOAJ, DOAB, PLOS, and BioMed Central. The conclusion states that open access maximizes the visibility and impact of research.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Sherpa provides two tools - SHERPA/RoMEO and SHERPA/FACT - to help researchers comply with open access mandates from their funders. SHERPA/RoMEO allows users to search publisher and journal policies on copyright and self-archiving. SHERPA/FACT combines RoMEO and JULIET data to indicate a journal's open access compliance based on the user's selected funder and publication stage. Both tools aim to help unlock the potential of research by facilitating open access.
The document discusses the history and development of open access initiatives for scholarly publications. It notes several important declarations from 2002-2005 that supported open access, including making publications freely available online. It describes how open access initiatives aim to unite organizations in supporting free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research. The document also discusses definitions of open access, copyright considerations, launching open access journals, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative of 2002.
This document provides an overview of open access from the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge. It defines open access, discusses its benefits for researchers and the public, and outlines the open access policy landscape in the UK including policies from HEFCE, RCUK, and COAF. It also covers open access models like gold, green, and hybrid open access; version control; paying article processing charges; complying with policies as an author with multiple affiliations; and how to find and request open access articles. The key message is to deposit accepted manuscripts in a repository at the time of acceptance.
Open Access (OA) is a system provide access to knowledge resources with free of cost and other restrictions. This PPT answer to the questions what, why, types, benefits etc. and also describes the creative commons licensing, concept of predatory journals, open access journals, and Sharpa RoMeO.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
This document discusses open access resources and the open access movement. It begins by explaining that most research is publicly funded but published in expensive journals, making the results inaccessible to most. The open access movement aims to make all research findings available to society. It describes various definitions and initiatives to promote open access, such as allowing authors to self-archive works in institutional repositories and publish in open access journals. Examples are given of important open access resources and publishers like DOAJ, DOAB, PLOS, and BioMed Central. The conclusion states that open access maximizes the visibility and impact of research.
This document provides information about open access publishing. It defines open access as providing online access to scientific information that is free of charge and free of most copyright restrictions. Some key benefits of open access mentioned are increased visibility, promotion of research efficiency, and public availability of publicly funded research results. The document discusses various approaches to open access such as the green road of self-archiving and the gold road of publishing in open access journals. It also outlines some barriers to open access like financial costs and legal issues regarding intellectual property rights. Overall, the document provides a high-level overview of open access publishing models and initiatives.
Impact Factor Journals as per JCR, SNIP, SJR, IPP, CiteScoreSaptarshi Ghosh
Journal-level metrics
Metrics have become a fact of life in many - if not all - fields of research and scholarship. In an age of information abundance (often termed ‘information overload’), having a shorthand for the signals for where in the ocean of published literature to focus our limited attention has become increasingly important.
Research metrics are sometimes controversial, especially when in popular usage they become proxies for multidimensional concepts such as research quality or impact. Each metric may offer a different emphasis based on its underlying data source, method of calculation, or context of use. For this reason, Elsevier promotes the responsible use of research metrics encapsulated in two “golden rules”. Those are: always use both qualitative and quantitative input for decisions (i.e. expert opinion alongside metrics), and always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input. This second rule acknowledges that performance cannot be expressed by any single metric, as well as the fact that all metrics have specific strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, using multiple complementary metrics can help to provide a more complete picture and reflect different aspects of research productivity and impact in the final assessment. ( Elsevier)
Web of Science and Scopus: Understanding the indexing systemDr. Sharad Chand
In this article, Ii is explained about the Web of Science and Scopus indexing databases and their quality measures. This provides a basic insight into the selection of a good quality journal for publications.
RESEARCH METRICS
It is the quantitative analysis of scientific and scholarly outputs and their impacts. Research Metrics measure impact and provide insight into the influence of specific journal publications, individual articles, and authors.
The document discusses different types of research articles, including primary research articles, review articles, and case studies. Primary research articles present original research findings and undergo peer review, while review articles summarize and critically evaluate previous research on a topic and may also be peer reviewed. Case studies provide an in-depth look at a single patient or case and aim to identify new areas for further research.
This document provides an overview of conventional methods and recent trends in conducting literature surveys. It begins by defining a literature survey as a systematic search of published works and other sources to identify relevant items on a particular topic. The significance of literature surveys is discussed, including discovering existing information, providing a starting point for one's own work, and avoiding duplication. Search strategies like defining terms, setting time and scope limits, and remaining flexible are covered. Sources of literature discussed in detail include books, journals, the library catalogue, the internet (including Google Scholar), and specialist materials like conference proceedings and government/corporate reports. The presentation concludes by listing references consulted in preparing the overview.
The impact factor (IF) is a metric that measures the average number of citations received in a given year by articles published in a journal over the previous two years. Impact factors are calculated annually and published in the Journal Citation Reports to indicate the relative significance and influence of journals within their fields. While impact factors help identify influential research and select publication targets, they should not be the sole consideration and have limitations due to variability in disciplines, editorial policies, and self-citations. Alternatives to the IF include the h-index and Eigenfactor, which aim to provide more robust assessments of research influence and output.
Research metrics are quantitative analyses used to assess the quality, impact, and influence of scholarly research outputs. Key metrics include journal impact factors, author metrics, article metrics, and altmetrics. Journal impact factors are calculated based on the number of citations a journal's articles receive. Author metrics measure researcher impact and productivity. Article metrics track citations of individual works. Altmetrics provide broader measures of online attention and impact.
This document provides an introduction to databases and how to search them. It defines databases as online containers that hold a variety of academic materials like journal articles and peer-reviewed papers. It describes two types of databases - open access databases that are freely available and closed access databases that require institutional access. It highlights some key library databases and their benefits over sources like Google Scholar or Google for finding reliable scholarly information. It provides guidance on searching databases, including using keywords, Boolean operators, subject headings from thesauruses, and tips for developing effective search strategies.
Publication ethics: Definitions, Introduction and ImportanceVasantha Raju N
The document provides an overview of publication ethics and discusses its importance. It defines publication ethics as the principles and standards associated with publishing scientific research results. This includes giving proper credit and authorship, avoiding plagiarism and duplicate publication, managing conflicts of interest, and not falsifying or fabricating research data. The document highlights various unethical practices like plagiarism, gift authorship, and predatory journals. It also discusses guidelines from organizations like COPE, ICMJE and reporting standards to promote ethical research practices.
This document provides an outline for a training session on publishing research in international scholarly journals. The objectives of the training are to teach research coordinators about the publishing process, how to select journals, write cover letters and manage submissions, understand open access options and predatory journals, and how to deal with reviewers and editorial comments. The methodology will include interactive lectures, group and individual work, internet/web sessions, and assignments. The contents and plan lists the session titles, durations, methods, and activities. Topics that will be covered include the publishing process, selecting journals and writing cover letters, ethical issues in publishing, the submission process, and dealing with reviewers and editors.
This document discusses conflict of interest in academic research. It notes that as academic involvement in research has increased, so too has the potential for conflicts of interest where financial gain could influence research outcomes. It describes how granting agencies require disclosure of potential conflicts. The document outlines different types of conflicts, including financial interests, and how institutions are responsible for managing conflicts. It also briefly discusses scientific misconduct and the importance of transparency and oversight in protecting the integrity of research.
This document provides an overview of citation indexing and describes some key tools and concepts. Citation indexing traces the use of ideas across research by identifying papers that cite older publications. The Institute for Scientific Information pioneered citation indexing databases like the Web of Science. While comprehensive, the WoS has limitations in coverage of non-English language and developing world journals. The Indian Citation Index was created to index more Indian publications and support research evaluation in India. Impact factors are calculated based on citations in the Journal Citation Reports to measure journal influence.
This document discusses journal performance metrics available through Journal Citation Reports on the ISI Web of Knowledge. It defines common metrics like the Journal Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Journal Cited Half-Life, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score which provide objective means for evaluating leading academic journals. Additional information and questions about Journal Citation Reports can be directed to Linda Galloway.
In this presentation, the speaker has covered following topics:
What is scientific conduct?
What do we mean by ethics in research? – scientific temperament –
What is Ethical behavior in research?
How to practice Ethics in publication?
On Research Metrics -
Author level metrics to journal level metrics
Research Profile Digital Platforms.
This document provides an overview of various bibliometric products and metrics that can be used to measure research impact, including journal impact factor, h-index, citation counts, and journal/article ranking tools from Journal Citation Reports, Scopus, and Google Scholar. It discusses the purpose and calculations of metrics like impact factor, eigenfactor, and source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). It also covers limitations of bibliometrics and recommends using multiple metrics and tools to evaluate research. Exercises are provided to help understand how to analyze journals, articles, and individual researchers using different bibliometric resources.
Dr. Vinay Kumar discusses the issues of predatory publishing and journals. He defines predatory journals as those that exploit scholars' need to publish by failing to uphold proper editorial and peer review standards while charging publication fees. This corrupts the literature and can damage researchers' careers. Warning signs of predatory journals include lack of transparency, poor English, and inclusion on blacklists. Efforts to combat predatory journals include creating white and blacklists, improving publication literacy, and the HRD ministry removing bogus journals from India's UGC list.
Violation of publication ethics can take several forms, including data manipulation, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, plagiarism, and salami slicing. Upholding publication ethics is important to establish the integrity and credibility of scholarly research. It is the responsibility of authors to avoid fabricating or manipulating data, plagiarizing, submitting manuscripts to multiple journals simultaneously, or including guest authors who did not meaningfully contribute. Organizations like COPE and ICMJE provide guidelines to help authors, editors, and reviewers maintain high standards of ethical publication practices.
This document discusses conflict of interest in academic research. It notes that as academic involvement in research has increased, so too has the potential for conflicts of interest where financial gain could influence research outcomes. It describes how granting agencies require disclosure of potential conflicts. The document outlines different types of conflicts, how institutions should manage them, and the importance of protecting both the integrity of research and human subjects. It also briefly discusses scientific misconduct and the responsibilities of authors.
- what is open access, how do you participate in open access and why is it important to researchers.
-Tools and tips for publishing in open access : DOAJ, Think.check.Submit. , Beall's list etc.
This document summarizes a librarian's presentation on academic publishing and open access models. It discusses the librarian's institution's experience with open access e-books and role as a publisher. It also covers open access to data and initiatives for metadata evolution, interoperability in scholarly communication, and knowledge discovery. The conclusion notes that the role of librarians has changed from retrieving specific information to helping users find what they need from the abundant information available.
This document provides information about open access publishing. It defines open access as providing online access to scientific information that is free of charge and free of most copyright restrictions. Some key benefits of open access mentioned are increased visibility, promotion of research efficiency, and public availability of publicly funded research results. The document discusses various approaches to open access such as the green road of self-archiving and the gold road of publishing in open access journals. It also outlines some barriers to open access like financial costs and legal issues regarding intellectual property rights. Overall, the document provides a high-level overview of open access publishing models and initiatives.
Impact Factor Journals as per JCR, SNIP, SJR, IPP, CiteScoreSaptarshi Ghosh
Journal-level metrics
Metrics have become a fact of life in many - if not all - fields of research and scholarship. In an age of information abundance (often termed ‘information overload’), having a shorthand for the signals for where in the ocean of published literature to focus our limited attention has become increasingly important.
Research metrics are sometimes controversial, especially when in popular usage they become proxies for multidimensional concepts such as research quality or impact. Each metric may offer a different emphasis based on its underlying data source, method of calculation, or context of use. For this reason, Elsevier promotes the responsible use of research metrics encapsulated in two “golden rules”. Those are: always use both qualitative and quantitative input for decisions (i.e. expert opinion alongside metrics), and always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input. This second rule acknowledges that performance cannot be expressed by any single metric, as well as the fact that all metrics have specific strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, using multiple complementary metrics can help to provide a more complete picture and reflect different aspects of research productivity and impact in the final assessment. ( Elsevier)
Web of Science and Scopus: Understanding the indexing systemDr. Sharad Chand
In this article, Ii is explained about the Web of Science and Scopus indexing databases and their quality measures. This provides a basic insight into the selection of a good quality journal for publications.
RESEARCH METRICS
It is the quantitative analysis of scientific and scholarly outputs and their impacts. Research Metrics measure impact and provide insight into the influence of specific journal publications, individual articles, and authors.
The document discusses different types of research articles, including primary research articles, review articles, and case studies. Primary research articles present original research findings and undergo peer review, while review articles summarize and critically evaluate previous research on a topic and may also be peer reviewed. Case studies provide an in-depth look at a single patient or case and aim to identify new areas for further research.
This document provides an overview of conventional methods and recent trends in conducting literature surveys. It begins by defining a literature survey as a systematic search of published works and other sources to identify relevant items on a particular topic. The significance of literature surveys is discussed, including discovering existing information, providing a starting point for one's own work, and avoiding duplication. Search strategies like defining terms, setting time and scope limits, and remaining flexible are covered. Sources of literature discussed in detail include books, journals, the library catalogue, the internet (including Google Scholar), and specialist materials like conference proceedings and government/corporate reports. The presentation concludes by listing references consulted in preparing the overview.
The impact factor (IF) is a metric that measures the average number of citations received in a given year by articles published in a journal over the previous two years. Impact factors are calculated annually and published in the Journal Citation Reports to indicate the relative significance and influence of journals within their fields. While impact factors help identify influential research and select publication targets, they should not be the sole consideration and have limitations due to variability in disciplines, editorial policies, and self-citations. Alternatives to the IF include the h-index and Eigenfactor, which aim to provide more robust assessments of research influence and output.
Research metrics are quantitative analyses used to assess the quality, impact, and influence of scholarly research outputs. Key metrics include journal impact factors, author metrics, article metrics, and altmetrics. Journal impact factors are calculated based on the number of citations a journal's articles receive. Author metrics measure researcher impact and productivity. Article metrics track citations of individual works. Altmetrics provide broader measures of online attention and impact.
This document provides an introduction to databases and how to search them. It defines databases as online containers that hold a variety of academic materials like journal articles and peer-reviewed papers. It describes two types of databases - open access databases that are freely available and closed access databases that require institutional access. It highlights some key library databases and their benefits over sources like Google Scholar or Google for finding reliable scholarly information. It provides guidance on searching databases, including using keywords, Boolean operators, subject headings from thesauruses, and tips for developing effective search strategies.
Publication ethics: Definitions, Introduction and ImportanceVasantha Raju N
The document provides an overview of publication ethics and discusses its importance. It defines publication ethics as the principles and standards associated with publishing scientific research results. This includes giving proper credit and authorship, avoiding plagiarism and duplicate publication, managing conflicts of interest, and not falsifying or fabricating research data. The document highlights various unethical practices like plagiarism, gift authorship, and predatory journals. It also discusses guidelines from organizations like COPE, ICMJE and reporting standards to promote ethical research practices.
This document provides an outline for a training session on publishing research in international scholarly journals. The objectives of the training are to teach research coordinators about the publishing process, how to select journals, write cover letters and manage submissions, understand open access options and predatory journals, and how to deal with reviewers and editorial comments. The methodology will include interactive lectures, group and individual work, internet/web sessions, and assignments. The contents and plan lists the session titles, durations, methods, and activities. Topics that will be covered include the publishing process, selecting journals and writing cover letters, ethical issues in publishing, the submission process, and dealing with reviewers and editors.
This document discusses conflict of interest in academic research. It notes that as academic involvement in research has increased, so too has the potential for conflicts of interest where financial gain could influence research outcomes. It describes how granting agencies require disclosure of potential conflicts. The document outlines different types of conflicts, including financial interests, and how institutions are responsible for managing conflicts. It also briefly discusses scientific misconduct and the importance of transparency and oversight in protecting the integrity of research.
This document provides an overview of citation indexing and describes some key tools and concepts. Citation indexing traces the use of ideas across research by identifying papers that cite older publications. The Institute for Scientific Information pioneered citation indexing databases like the Web of Science. While comprehensive, the WoS has limitations in coverage of non-English language and developing world journals. The Indian Citation Index was created to index more Indian publications and support research evaluation in India. Impact factors are calculated based on citations in the Journal Citation Reports to measure journal influence.
This document discusses journal performance metrics available through Journal Citation Reports on the ISI Web of Knowledge. It defines common metrics like the Journal Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Journal Cited Half-Life, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score which provide objective means for evaluating leading academic journals. Additional information and questions about Journal Citation Reports can be directed to Linda Galloway.
In this presentation, the speaker has covered following topics:
What is scientific conduct?
What do we mean by ethics in research? – scientific temperament –
What is Ethical behavior in research?
How to practice Ethics in publication?
On Research Metrics -
Author level metrics to journal level metrics
Research Profile Digital Platforms.
This document provides an overview of various bibliometric products and metrics that can be used to measure research impact, including journal impact factor, h-index, citation counts, and journal/article ranking tools from Journal Citation Reports, Scopus, and Google Scholar. It discusses the purpose and calculations of metrics like impact factor, eigenfactor, and source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). It also covers limitations of bibliometrics and recommends using multiple metrics and tools to evaluate research. Exercises are provided to help understand how to analyze journals, articles, and individual researchers using different bibliometric resources.
Dr. Vinay Kumar discusses the issues of predatory publishing and journals. He defines predatory journals as those that exploit scholars' need to publish by failing to uphold proper editorial and peer review standards while charging publication fees. This corrupts the literature and can damage researchers' careers. Warning signs of predatory journals include lack of transparency, poor English, and inclusion on blacklists. Efforts to combat predatory journals include creating white and blacklists, improving publication literacy, and the HRD ministry removing bogus journals from India's UGC list.
Violation of publication ethics can take several forms, including data manipulation, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, plagiarism, and salami slicing. Upholding publication ethics is important to establish the integrity and credibility of scholarly research. It is the responsibility of authors to avoid fabricating or manipulating data, plagiarizing, submitting manuscripts to multiple journals simultaneously, or including guest authors who did not meaningfully contribute. Organizations like COPE and ICMJE provide guidelines to help authors, editors, and reviewers maintain high standards of ethical publication practices.
This document discusses conflict of interest in academic research. It notes that as academic involvement in research has increased, so too has the potential for conflicts of interest where financial gain could influence research outcomes. It describes how granting agencies require disclosure of potential conflicts. The document outlines different types of conflicts, how institutions should manage them, and the importance of protecting both the integrity of research and human subjects. It also briefly discusses scientific misconduct and the responsibilities of authors.
- what is open access, how do you participate in open access and why is it important to researchers.
-Tools and tips for publishing in open access : DOAJ, Think.check.Submit. , Beall's list etc.
This document summarizes a librarian's presentation on academic publishing and open access models. It discusses the librarian's institution's experience with open access e-books and role as a publisher. It also covers open access to data and initiatives for metadata evolution, interoperability in scholarly communication, and knowledge discovery. The conclusion notes that the role of librarians has changed from retrieving specific information to helping users find what they need from the abundant information available.
Wisconsin Distance Education Conference 2010 open access publishing seminarTerry Anderson
These are slides used by 4 authors of books released as Open Access by Athabasca University Press. The presentation also compares impact of open versus proprietary publication of scholarly work.
The good, the efficient and the open - changing research workflows and the ne...Bianca Kramer
presented at the Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9), Geneva, June 18, 2015
Science is in transition. If all goes well, the transition is towards more open, efficient and honest/reproducible practices. Libraries should move with this change by supporting open science instead of just open access. Building on their successful project "101 innovations in scholarly communication" Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer present their interpretations of what is going on and can be expected in the six phases of the research cycle. They have tested their hypothetical workflows and show how real, day-to-day research workflows are changing from traditional to modern, innovative and experimental. These changes are reflected in tools and sites people use in various phases of that workflow. They might for example change from Web of Science → SPSS → Word+Endnote → Nature → ResearcherID → Impact Factors to Sparrho → ROpenScience+IPythonNotebooks → WriteLateX+Docear → The Winnower → Kudos → Publons+PubPeer. The way new generations of researchers work affects how information will be discovered, re-used, created, shared, communicated and assessed. There are huge opportunities for libraries and other stakeholders to contribute and work with the research community, but only if they are well prepared!
Open access at cambridge judge business school 29 november 2013Andy Priestner
Open access (OA) literature is digital research that is available online for free. There are different models of open access, including green OA where authors archive their work in institutional repositories, and gold OA where authors or institutions pay publication fees for articles to be openly accessible. The University of Cambridge supports open access while allowing authors to choose where to publish. Case studies show how authors can navigate requirements for open access depending on the journal and funding source. While open access has benefits, there are ongoing issues around publisher policies and how open access may impact publishing choices and careers. Support for open access is available on the University's open access website.
This presentation provides the fundamentals about open access as part of the broader open agenda and locating it within changing scholarly communication and new forms of research dissemination. Adds a developing country perspective.
Open access in chemistry: from ACS Spring Meeting 2011ChemistryCentral
Open access in chemistry: information wants to be free. A presentation given at the Internet and Chemistry session at the ACS Spring National Meeting 2011.
The document discusses problems with the traditional scholarly publishing model and how scholarship is being transformed through open access. It summarizes that under the traditional model, commercial publishers profit while libraries face rising subscription costs and authors sign away their rights. This limits access to scholarly work. However, open access provides a solution by making research freely available online under open licenses. The document recommends authors publish in open access journals, deposit work in open repositories, understand their copyright options, and advocate for open access to maximize distribution and impact of their research.
A tetrahedron is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces that meet at each vertex. It is one of the five Platonic solids and is the only convex polyhedron with four faces. A regular tetrahedron has all four triangular faces that are equilateral triangles. The net of a tetrahedron is an arrangement of edge-joined triangles that can be folded along edges to form the triangular faces, and a vertex figure is the shape exposed when a corner is sliced off.
This presentation discusses open access and how it promotes the free sharing of scholarly research. It defines open access and notes that only a fraction of research is accessible currently due to limited journal subscriptions. The presentation outlines the benefits of open access in increasing research visibility, usage, impact, and progress. It provides examples of open access journal collections and repositories, and how researchers can publish and fund open access. It also discusses the University of Johannesburg's initiatives to promote open access through its institutional repository and open access awareness events.
Digital Scholarship From the Bottom Up: The Library's Role in Open Access Stu...Robyn Hall
Presented at Netspeed 2013 in Calgary, Alberta on October 24, 2013.
Abstract: Open Journal Systems (OJS) is open source publishing software that has been adopted by scholarly communities around the world. Typically, it is hosted by academic libraries and used by faculty and graduate students to disseminate research articles independent of proprietary, for-profit journal publishers. Increasingly, however, educators are using this software for assignments and initiatives that give undergraduate students hands on experience with open access publishing of their own digital works and that of their peers. Drawing on a range of examples, this session will highlight ways that librarians can provide technical support, editorial guidance, and media/digital literacy instruction to help create and maintain open access student journals. Participants will also have an opportunity to see the inner workings of OJS while being asked to consider the possibilities and implications of managing an open journal hosting service at their own library, be it public, academic, or special.
Workshop at the Internation Post-Doc Initaitive - IPODI (Technischen Universität Berlin) on June 15th on Copyright, Green Road and Golden Road of Open Access and Creative Commons licenses
Helping Faculty Help Themselves: Open Access and Data Management Consulting A...Spencer Keralis
This presentation describes initiatives at University of North Texas to support Open Access and Open Data, including the DataRes Project, the UNT Open Access Symposium, and the Denton Declaration. Presented as a Synch Session for Council on Library and Information Resources Fellows, Feb 7, 2013.
My presentation has three parts: a short global introduction to open access, some considerations on the challenges to open access journals and, finally, an analysis of communication journals in Spain.
Viel gerühmt, doch oftmals noch wenig genutzt werden die Open-Access-Rechte, die im Rahmen der Allianz- und Nationallizenzen verhandelt wurden. Für Betreiber von OA-Repositorien besonders interessant (denn scheinbar ohne viel Aufwand und en bloc bearbeitbar) sind die OA-Rechte, die auch die Institutionen der jeweiligen Autorinnen und Autoren erwerben. In dem Vortrag wird der Workflow der TU Berlin dargestellt – von der Recherche der Artikel, für die die TU die entsprechenden OA-Rechte erworben hat, bis zum Veröffentlichen der Artikel im DSpace-basierten Repositorium DepositOnce.
'Open Access Journals: Promoting best publishing practice and increasing dissemination and visibility' provides an updated summary of what the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) does to help in the promotion of transparency and best practice.
Presented at the PUBMET 2015 conference in Zadar, 24-25 September 2015.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Of CUNY, By CUNY, For CUNY: How Open Access Can Benefit Everyone at CUNY (and...Jill Cirasella
CUNY would greatly benefit from open access to scholarly works. An institutional repository at CUNY could make faculty research more accessible and increase its impact, while benefiting students and libraries. Many funding agencies and universities support open access policies. CUNY establishing its own institutional repository would make it easier for faculty to share their works openly through green open access self-archiving.
1) The document discusses open access and how making research openly available online can benefit readers, authors, institutions, and society. It describes two main ways of achieving open access: "gold" open access by publishing in open access journals, and "green" open access by self-archiving works in online repositories.
2) It addresses criticisms of open access publishing, explaining that open access journals can be high-quality and respected, and that predatory publishers do not invalidate the open access model. It also discusses how open access publishing businesses are sustainable without being exploitative.
3) In conclusion, the document advocates for open access as a way to make research more widely available and have greater societal impact, while
Talking about Open Access: SMASH and Subtler TacticsJill Cirasella
This document discusses strategies for promoting open access, including forcefully advocating the benefits of open access ("SMASH") or using more subtle tactics. It notes common objections to open access and recommends tailoring the message based on the audience. Open access benefits readers, students, authors, libraries, institutions, and fields of study by increasing access and impact. The document also outlines the progression of open access initiatives at CUNY from 2005 to the present.
Open Access Mash-Up: Protecting Your Rights As an Author + Putting the Public...Jill Cirasella
This slideshow is a mash-up of http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/you-know-what-you-write-but-do-you-know-your-rights and http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/open-access-putting-the-public-back-in-publication
What the open access movement doesn't want you to knowPattie Pattie
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1. Open Access Crash Course:
What OA Is, Why You Should Care,
and How You Can Go OA
Jill Cirasella
The Graduate Center, CUNY
jcirasella@gc.cuny.edu
Slides at: http://tinyurl.com/OAcrashcourse
9. Journal Publishing is BIG Business
Source: Bosch, Stephen, and Kittie Henderson. "The Winds Of Change: Periodicals Price Survey 2013."
Library Journal 21 July 2013. http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-
periodicals-price-survey-2013
10. Journal Subscriptions are BIG Costs
Journal prices are increasing
at an alarming rate, straining
academic library budgets.
From 1986 to 2009, serial
expenditures at research
libraries increased 381%.
(Book expenditures rose only
77% in the same period.)
12. Despite Noble-Sounding Claims…
“Elsevier disseminates and preserves STM literature
to meet the information needs of the world‟s
present and future scientists and clinicians —
linking thinkers with ideas.”
from Elsevier‟s Mission Statement
http://www.elsevier.com/about/mission
13. Despite Noble-Sounding Claims…
“Elsevier disseminates and preserves STM literature
to meet the information needs of the world‟s
present and future scientists and clinicians —
linking thinkers with ideas.”
from Elsevier‟s Mission Statement
http://www.elsevier.com/about/mission
14. Don‟t Take My Word for It!
“Publishing obscure academic journals is
that rare thing in the media industry:
a licence to print money.”
Source: "Open sesame: Academic publishing." The Economist 14 Apr. 2012.
http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
15. What Is the Solution?
Open access to
scholarly journal articles
and other scholarly materials!
16. What Is Open Access?
Open access (OA) materials are:
accessible at no cost on a journal website or in a repository
committed to long-term archiving
available for all to read, download, print, copy, share, etc.
(attribution always required, of course)
Many kinds of documents can be made OA: journal articles,
textbooks and other kinds of books, data sets, dissertations,
instructional modules, conference presentations, and much more.
17. More Formally…
“By „open access‟ to this literature, we mean its free availability
on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these
articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,
or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal,
or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction
and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain,
should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work
and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
— Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
18. How to Achieve OA: Go Gold
Gold Open Access
“Gold OA” means publishing with publishers
that automatically and immediately make
the work available online to all at no cost.
Most gold OA publishers are journal publishers,
but a few book publishers make their books OA.
More about gold OA later…
19. How to Achieve OA: Go Green
Green Open Access
“Green OA”refers to works that,
regardless of where else they appear,
are made available online in an OA repository
committed to long-term preservation.
Journals are called “green” if they permit authors
to self-archive their articles in OA repositories.
Most journals do allow self-archiving,
but most authors don‟t know that!
More about green OA later…
20. Finding OA Materials
OA materials are available at no cost online, either on an
OA journal site or in some kind of OA repository.
Therefore, OA materials are easily findable via Google,
Google Scholar, and other web search tools.
In addition, library databases index many OA journals.
(Of course they do!)
Upshot: You will find OA materials naturally when you do
research.
21. Who Benefits from OA?
Open Access Benefits
http://youtu.be/bKkrdn_GrQo
22. “I think that publishing through open
access is doing the right thing.”
Publishing open access is altruistic.
Is it merelyaltruistic?
No.
Open access benefits everyone,
including the authors themselves.
23. Who Benefits from OA?
Readers:
More content is available to everyone, regardless of
institutional affiliation or ability to pay
Students:
Students have access to the literature they need to
master their fields, no matter what college/university
they attend
24. Who Else Benefits?
Authors:
Increased availability
More readers
More scholarly citations, impact in the field
Easy to link to
More mentions/links in news, blogs, etc.
Broader awareness in the world
Greater control over own work
No need to relinquish copyright to publishers
Publishers don't dictate copying, sharing, etc.
25. The Colbert Bump
“the curious phenomenon whereby
anyone who appears on this program
gets a huge boost in popularity”
— Stephen Colbert
Colbert Report, 6/21/07
Photo by David Shankbone
26. The Open Access Bump
Similarly, open access boosts the impact of articles:
easier to access read more cited more
It makes intuitive sense, but it‟s also been proven.
Lawrence, S. (2001). Free online availability substantially
increases a paper's impact. Nature, 411(6837), 521.
Harnad, S. and Brody, T. (2004). Comparing the Impact of Open
Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals. D-Lib
Magazine, 10(6).
Annotated bibliography of articles on the OA advantage:
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
27. My OA Advantage
All of my recent works are OA. What‟s happened as a result?
• More readers (stats from repository)
• More sharing (blog posts, tweets)
• More publicity (Library Link of the Day, etc.)
• Inclusion in course syllabi
• Emails from readers
• Invitations to write, talk
• Satisfaction of having my work read & appreciated
Without a doubt: This is all because the articles are OA.
28. What Benefits from OA?
Libraries:
As OA become increasingly prevalent, libraries will be no
longer be hamstrung by astronomical journal prices.
Institutions:
Institutions no longer pay twice for research:
researchers‟ salaries + journal subscriptions
In the case of public institutions, the tax-paying public
no longer pays three times for research:
salaries + research grants + journal subscriptions
29. What Else Benefits?
Fields of Study:
Greater access to information
More informed research
Better research
Articles made OA before they appear in journal
Ends reliance on journal publication cycles
Allows others to respond more quickly
Speeds innovation
30. And What Else?
The Public:
Greater access to information
Better informed doctors, teachers, journalists, etc.
Better informed individuals, voters, etc.
Healthier, better educated people living in
a cleaner, safer, more evidence-based world
32. Put Differently…
“Closed access means people die.”
— Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
Read more at:
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/10/23/
open-research-reports-what-jenny-and-i-said-and-why-i-am-angry/
33. But Publishers Say…
“Most people involved in scientific research and in
need of scientific information already have access
to the articles in journals through library
subscriptions at their affiliated institutions.”
— Association of American Publishers
http://www.publishers.org/issues/5/8/
37. More about Gold OA
Reminder:
“Gold OA” means publishing with publishers
that automatically and immediately make
the work available online to all at no cost —
i.e., journals that are “born” open access
38. Respectability of Gold OA Journals?
OA = anyone can read the journal
OA ≠ anyone can publish in the journal
OA journals are real journals. Publishing in an OA journal is not
self-publishing or vanity publishing!
OA journals earn respectability the same way other journals
do: through the quality of their articles and the prominence of
the people they attract as authors, editors, etc.
Of course: Just as some non-OA journals are better than others,
some OA journals are better than others.
39. Peer Review & Gold OA Journals?
A journal's peer review practices are
independent of its openness.
Most scholarly journals,
open access and subscription-based,
are peer reviewed.
(Some open access journals are not peer reviewed;
some subscription-based journals are not peer reviewed.)
40. Impact of OA Journals?
Many OA journals are highly respected; some have very high impact
factors (according to Journal Citation Reports).
Some OA journals with high impact factors:
• PLoS One
• PLoSBiology
• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• and many more…
Of course, impact factor is not equally relevant to all disciplines,
and there are also other measures ofimportance and influence
(altmetrics).
41. Finding Gold OA Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
Browse or search for 9900+ open access journals!
42. Business Models
If OA journals are free to read, how do they cover costs?
There are many business models for OA journals:
• Volunteers & institutional subsidies
• Advertising
• Fees for print or premium editions
• Endowments & donations
• Publication fees
• Institutional memberships
• A combination of the above
For more information, see:
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models
43. Publication Fees?!
Yes, some OA journals charge publication fees.
Some do not.
(Some subscription-based journals charge publication fees!)
Fees are not necessarily paid from researchers' pockets:
Some institutions pay fees for their employees.
Grants can be used to pay publication fees.
Some journals waive fees for those who cannot afford them.
44. Publication Fees ≠ Vanity Publishing
Some people worry:
Are publication fees tantamount to vanity publishing?
NO!
At reputable journals, fees have no bearing
whatsoever on whether an article is accepted.
45. What about Disreputable Journals?
Predatory Open Access Publishers
"Predatory" = unscrupulous, unserious, spamming
Examples: Academic Journals, Inc.,
Academia Publishing, Modern Scientific Press,
Scientific Journals International
More info:Beall‟s List of Predatory Publishers
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Of course, low-quality journals are
not unique to open access publishing!
46. Open Access Scholarly Publishers Assoc.
• OASPA supports OA publishers, promotes best practices
for OA, advances workable business models for OA, etc.
• OASPA holds its members to a Code of Conduct:
http://www.oaspa.org/conduct.php
• OASPA endeavors not to include predatory OA publishers
47. Independent Variables
x-axis: openness
y-axis: quality
(impact, rigor of peer
review, etc.)
Cell
Nature
Journal of Finance
Philosophical Review
Low-quality and “predatory”
OA journals
PLoS Biology
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Philosophers’ Imprint
College & Research Libraries
Just about every field has some
bottom-of-the-barrel
subscription-based journals…
48. Gold OA: The Takeaway
Don‟t let the predatory publishers scare you off!
Open access is a viable and sustainable publishing model.
Some journals are better than others, but the model is sound.
Traditional Scholarly Journal Publishing
restrictive, expensive, outmoded, exploitative, unnecessary
Gold OA can and should be:
author-friendly, reader-friendly, research-friendly
beneficial to everyone
49. Hybrid Journals
• Subscription-based journals that give authors the option
to pay a fee to make their individual articles permanently
OA — e.g., Taylor & Francis‟s “Open Select” option,
Springer‟s “Open Choice” option
• A given issue is a combination of OA and non-OA articles
• Some publishers claim to adjust the subscription price
depending on how many authors pay to go OA, but…
50. More about Green OA
Reminder:
“Green OA”refers to works that,
regardless of where else they appear,
are made available online in an OA repository
committed to long-term preservation.
Putting one‟s own work into an OA repository
is called “self-archiving.”
51. Where to Self-Archive?
Subject Repositories
arXiv.org
PubMed Central
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
E-Prints in Library & Information Science (E-LIS)
Curious if there's a repository for a certain field?
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories
Note: Not every field has a subject repository.
52. Where to Self-Archive?
Institutional Repositories
An institutional repository (IR) is an online database
offered by an institution to collect, preserve,
and make freely available scholarly journal articles
and other works created by that institution‟s community.
Of course, self-archiving in an institutional repository
is possible only at institutions with a repository.
53. Where to Self-Archive?
Institutional Repositories
Open access institutional repositories can “serve as
tangible indicators of a university‟s quality” and
“demonstrate the scientific, societal, and economic
relevance of its research activities, thus increasing
the institution‟s visibility, status, and public
value.”
— Raym Crow, “The Case for
Institutional
Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper”
http://scholarship.utm.edu/20/
54. Where to Self-Archive?
Who has an IR?
MIT, Harvard, U of California, and many, many others
(large and small, private and public)
Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
Problem: Where can people without an IR whose fields
do not have subject repositories self-archive their work?
55. Where to Self-Archive?
Subject- and Institution-Independent Sites
ResearchGate.net
Academia.edu
Personal Websites
A good step in the direction of green OA,
but not permanent and therefore
not the best option!
61. Is a Journal Green OA? Easier!
SHERPA/RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Search by journal/publisher to learn
its copyright and self-archiving policies
66. Prevalence of Permission?
Of the 18,000+ journals covered by SHERPA/RoMEO as of
November 2011:
• 87% allow immediate self-archiving of some version of article
• 60% allow immediate self-archiving of post-refereed version
• 16% allow immediate self-archiving of published PDF
• Allowing for embargoes (usually 6 to 24 months), 94% allow
self-archiving of post-refereed versions
For more information:
http://romeo.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/24/
67. Beyond SHERPA/RoMEO
There‟s more to a copyright agreement
than self-archiving policies!
Sometimes you need to read
the contract itself.
68. Comparison of Copyright Agreements
BioMed Central
vs.
JAMA
vs.
Journal of Library Innovation
vs.
Wiley-Blackwell
69. Creative Commons Licenses
Many OA works have Creative Commons (CC) licenses,
which grant the public permission to use the work
in more ways than traditional copyright allows.
74. “Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
A growing number of institutions have policies to ensure
that faculty and staff articles become green OA.
Some publishers are now trying to make
different rules for “voluntary” self-archiving
and policy-mandated self-archiving:
“You may self-archive if you wish but not if you must.”
75. “Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
Example #1: Emerald
“Emerald supports an author‟s right to voluntarily self-archive
their works without payment or embargo.”
“If you are mandated to make your work OA but have no funds for
an APC, you may deposit your work 24 months after official
publication, or contact permissions@emeraldinsight.com for
consideration for an embargo exception.”
76. “Voluntary” vs. Mandated Green OA
Example #2: Elsevier
“Elsevier believes that individual authors should be able to
distribute their [accepted author manuscript] for their
personal voluntary needs and interests…”
“…deposit in, or posting to, subject-oriented or
centralized repositories (such as PubMed Central), or
institutional repositories with systematic posting mandates
is permitted only under specific agreements between
Elsevier and the repository, agency or institution...”
77. Can I Negotiate My Contract?
Sometimes.
Your best shot is the
Scholar‟s Copyright Addendum Engine:
http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
78. Advice to Authors
1. Research any journal/publisher you‟re considering.
(Quality? Peer reviewing process? Copyright policy?)
2. If you have the right to self-archive, exercise that right.
1. If you don‟t have the right to self-archive, request it.
1. Choose the best publishing venue for you and your career…
2. …but also think about the system you‟re contributing to and
the system you want to contribute to.
Know your rights to what you write!
80. Who Thinks OA Is Important?
A growing number of universities have OA policies:
Harvard, MIT, Rutgers, UCSF, U of Kansas, Duke, Utah State,
Princeton, Emory, Oberlin, Bucknell, etc.
Some funding agencies have OA mandates:
National Institutes of Health, Gates Foundation, MacArthur
Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Research Councils UK (though
theirs is problematic…), etc.
Some states and countries have OA policies!
E.g., Illinois, Ireland
81. Who Thinks OA Is Important?
Coming soon: More federal agencies!
Massive expansion of NIH policy: The Obama administration
has directed all federal agencies with $100M+ in research
expenditures to develop policies to make resulting research
articles open access within 12 months of publication.
This includes NASA, NSF, DoD, CDC, Smithsonian, etc.
Taxpayers are entitled to the research they pay for!
82. Who Thinks OA Is Important?
Coming soon: New York State?
Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research (TAPFR) Act
would make all state-funded research (>$50M/year) open
access.
Commercial publishers lobbied heavily against it, stirring up
confusion and threatening major job losses.
Didn‟t pass in 2013 but there‟s hope for 2014!
83. Dishonest Lobbying
The arguments for OA are unassailable — support is spreading.
Some publishers are experimenting with new models.
Some are getting ugly.
Example: American Chemical Society
“Their unspoken crusade is to socialize all aspects of science, putting
the federal government in charge of funding science, communicating
science, and maintaining the archive of scientific knowledge.”
— Rudy M. Baum, Editor of Chemical & Engineering News
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/editor/8238edit.html
“Public access equals government censorship.”
Lobbying campaign proposed by AAP consultant
84. Are They Just Denying the Inevitable?
The Inevitability of Open Access
by David W. Lewis
“This article argues that Gold OA, where all of the articles of a
journal are available at the time of publication, is a disruptive
innovation as defined by business theorist Clayton Christensen.
Using methods described by Christensen, we can predict the
growth of Gold OA. This analysis suggests that Gold OA could
account for 50 percent of the scholarly journal articles sometime
between 2017 and 2021, and 90 percent of articles as soon as
2020 and more conservatively by 2025.”
Lewis, D. W. (2012). The inevitability of open access. College & Research
Libraries, 73(5), 493-506. http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html
85. Whether Inevitable or Not…
OA is growing dramatically!
Heather Morrison (U of Ottawa) tracks OA growth on her blog
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics.
Highlights from her December 2012 round-up (with updates):
• The Directory of Open Access Journals included 8,461 journals,
up by 1,133 since the end of 2011. (Now over 9900!)
• The Registry of Open Access Repositories listed 3,032 repositories,
up by 449 since 2011. (Now over 3500!)
• PubMed Central included a whopping 2.6 million OA articles,
up by 300,000 since 2011. (Now over 2.8 million!)
86. Coming Up: Open Access Week
Open Access Week – An Annual Event!
This Year: October 21-27, 2013
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
“an opportunity for the academic and research community
to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access,
to share what they‟ve learned with colleagues, and
to help inspire wider participation in helping to make
Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.”
88. Summing Up
Open Access Explained!
http://youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY
(If I‟ve done my job, everything this video
should be familiar to you now.)
89. Credits
This slideshow is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Specific graphics may have different licenses:
Philosophical Transactions image from
http://www.ansp.org/explore/online-exhibits/stories/the-philosophical-transactions/
“What Is the Problem?” graphic,
content by Jill Cirasella / graphic design by Les LaRue, http://www.leslarue.com/,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Octopus image is adapted from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luca-beanone-barcellona/4776886666/
Profit margin graph from Nick Shockey, SPARC/Right To Research Coalition
Stephen Colbert photo by David Shankbone
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Colbert_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg