2. What we’ll cover:
•What is Liverpool Elements
•How to add publication information to
your profile
•How to deposit publication files
•What Open Access means
•Funder policies on Open Access
3. What is Liverpool Elements?
Current Research Information System
Record of all university research outputs
Populates other systems such as web profiles
Can be accessed via the staff homepage under
tools and services
4. Adding publications to your profile
Automatically
• Elements searches for
publications it thinks
belong to you
• You ‘claim’ or ‘reject’ them
• Saves time, but reliant on
data from publisher so
can be a delay
• Must ensure search
settings are set up
Manually
• Useful if your publication
hasn’t yet been picked up by
Elements
• Entering basic details when
accepted for publication helps
you to comply with REF OA
requirements
• Elements will supplement
record later when full
metadata available
6. Depositing research outputs:
REF Open Access policy
You MUST deposit the Author Accepted
Manuscript of journal articles and conference
proceedings (with an ISSN) that were accepted
for publication after the 1st April 2016 within
three months of acceptance.
7. What is Open Access?
“Open Access means peer-reviewed
academic research and work that is
free to read online and that anyone
may redistribute and reuse, with
some restrictions”
Eve, M. (2014) Open access and the humanities:
contexts, controversies and the future. Cambridge: CUP.
8. How to make your work
openly accessible
GOLD
GREEN
9. Gold Open Access
• Funded by article processing charge (APC)
• Available immediately upon publication
• Available at the source of publication i.e.
publisher’s website
• Author chooses creative commons licence
• Available in pure open access journals or
hybrid journals
10. Green Open Access
• Paper published via subscription route but
author deposits author accepted manuscript
• Available subject to journal enforced embargo
period
• Available from a secondary source e.g. subject
or institutional repository
11. Funder Publication types
included
What needs to go
in the repository?
What’s the
maximum
embargo period
allowed?
Gold Open
Access options
HEFCE Journal articles and
conference
proceedings (with
ISSN) accepted
after 1/4/16
Author Accepted
Manuscript within 3
months of
acceptance
STEM: 12 months
Arts, Humanities
and Social
Sciences: 24
months
Not necessary to
comply and no
preference
RCUK Peer reviewed
research articles
that acknowledge
RCUK funding
Author Accepted
Manuscript
STEM: 6 months
Arts, Humanities
and Social
Sciences: 12
months
Not necessary to
comply but
preferred
Funding is
available
Licence must be
CC-BY
Funder Open Access policies
12. Funder Publication types
included
What needs to go
in the repository?
What’s the
maximum
embargo period
allowed?
Gold Open
Access options
Wellcome/COAF Research papers,
monographs, book
chapters
AAMs must be
deposited in
PubMed Central
and Europe PMC,
Monographs and
book chapters
must be deposited
in PMC Bookshelf,
within six months
of publication
6 months Not necessary to
comply but
preferred
Funding is
available
Licence must be
CC-BY
NIHR Peer reviewed
research articles
AAMs must be
deposited in
PubMed Central
and Europe PMC,
within six months
of publication
6 months Not necessary to
comply but
preferred
Horizon 2020 All AAMs STEM: 6 months
Arts, Humanities
and Social
Sciences: 12
months
Not necessary to
comply and no
preference
14. Sarah Roughley
Scholarly Communications Librarian
sarah13@Liverpool.ac.uk
0151 795 8528
Open Access Guide: http://libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/openaccess Follow us: @LivUniOA
Editor's Notes
Have Elements and Elements Test open.
Gold open access is funded by fees charged by the publisher and are usually referred to as Article processing Charges. These are the fees that publishers say cover the cost of the publication for them to actually publish. Although these fees are charged to the author, it is very rarely that the author pays them.
Once these fees are paid, this means that the paper is available immediately as open access upon publication and at the source of publication so the publisher’s website.
The author does not sign over the copyright to the publisher, instead they are able to choose a creative commons licence which dictate how others can use the work.
Gold open access is available either in pure open access journals or in hybrid journals.
The second open access route is green. Green does not have any associated charges. The paper is published via the subscription route but the author can deposit their paper into a subject or institutional repository which means it can then be accessed by anyone and everyone. The publishers put an embargo period on it which is usually around a year so that they can make some money out of the paper first. After that embargo period has passed the paper is made live in the repository. There are lots of subject repositories and most universities now have their own institutional repository, as we do at Liverpool.
There are lots of benefits to open access publishing. There are benefits to you the researcher and your institution and there are also benefits to wider academia and society. So for you the researcher, if more people can read your work, more people are going to cite it. It has been shown that if something is available on an open access basis, it tends to be cited more. More people reading your work means more opportunities for research collaborations. And it’s good for the university if your work is more visible.
For wider academia and society, there are also benefits. So as we’ve already seen, it means smaller institutions or universities in developing countries can access research that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford. We’ve already talked about how much accessing this research actually costs, and how prohibitive these costs can be. Those outside of academia can also access the latest research – policy makers, government workers, charities, practitioners like teachers and pharmacists, small businesses, independent researchers, or just interested people. And at the end of the day, this research is publicly funded, everyone should be able to access it. There are examples on the Open Access guide of where access to research has made a real difference.
