Authors' rights, copyright and journal publications.

1. Scholarly Communication Workshop
Managing Your Rights as an Author
August 27, 2014

2. Taylor & Francis 2014 Survey of Scholarly
Authors
 authors believe that
open access offers
wider circulation, higher
visibility, and larger
readership than
publication in
subscription journals
 71% were comfortable
with non-commercial
use of their work
 the most preferred
license by respondents
was again the CC BY-
NC-ND

3. Taylor & Francis Survey, cont; Open Access
Publishing Services
 Rigorous peer review
 Rapid publication of my paper
 Rapid peer review
 Promotion of my paper post-
publication
 Automated deposit of my paper
(Author Accepted Version) into a
repository of my choice
 Provision of usage and citation
figures at the article level
 Detailed guidance on how I can
increase the visibility of my paper
 Pre-peer review services such as
language polishing, matching my
paper to a journal, and / or
formatting my paper to journal style
 Provision of alt-metrics (such as
Altmetric or ImpactStory)

4. Oberlin Group Faculty Survey
 The majority of
respondents’ recent
publishing activity relates
to journal articles,
followed by book
chapters, then books
 Faculty are currently most
dissatisfied with pricing of
their work, speed of
publishing and
remuneration for their
work
 Key reasons for book
publishing are developing
research, communication
with other scholars, and
for tenure/promotion

5. Theological Librarianship Example – Open
Access Impact

6. Open Access and Copyright Resources
 OpenDOAR - http://www.opendoar.org/
 SHERPA/RoMEO - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
 Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
 SPARC - http://www.sparc.arl.org/

7. Further Reading
 Davis, Phil. “Open Access Publication Gains
Acceptance With Authors, Licenses Still
Problematic.” The Scholarly Kitchen, July 2, 2014.
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/07/02/open-
access-publication-gains-acceptance-with-authors-
licenses-still-problematic/.
 Straumsheim, Carl. “Liberal Arts College Libraries
Mull Establishing Open Access Book Publisher.”
Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2014, sec. News.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/11/lib
eral-arts-college-libraries-mull-establishing-open-
access-book-publisher.

8. Further Reading, continued
 Frass, Will, Jo Cross, and Victoria Gardner. Taylor &
Francis Open Access Survey. Taylor &
Francis/Routledge, June 2014.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-
survey-june2014.pdf.
 TBI Communications. Shaping the Future of
Monograph Publishing in the Liberal Arts : Results of
a Survey to Oberlin Group Faculty, January 28,
2014.
http://leverinitiative.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/surv
ey_results_oberlin_faculty_jan14.pdf.