2. Session plan
Introduction
Definitions
Benefits/disadvantages
Ways to make your work open access
Finding open access research
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3. Introduction
Why library involvement?
Royal Society published first journal of research findings
1665
Libraries provide an indexed archive for print journals to
encourage „scholarly communication‟
Online versions of journals emerged, making sharing
much easier
Libraries promote ways to access research data – apply
„metadata‟ to enable search to be easier
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4. Exercise
In groups spend 5 minutes identifying what you think
‘open access’ means: a definition
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5. Definitions
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions” Peter Suber
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
accessed 19.2.13
Budapest Open Access Initiative 2002
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read
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6. Exercise
In groups spend 5 minutes thinking about advantages
and disadvantages of open access
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7. Benefits
“Standing on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton
1676
Increased readership & some evidence of increased
citations
Removes cost barrier for researchers in developing
countries or outside academic institutions
May encourage business collaboration
Increasingly research funders require OA publishing of
the grant outputs
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8. Disadvantages
Version confusion
Current academic promotion system relies on „prestige‟
journals
Article processing charge (APC) may deter early career
researchers
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10. How to make your work Open Access
‘Green’ Open Access
Self-archive – use an institutional or subject repository
License your copyright, don‟t assign it
If using a publisher check Sherpa Romeo for restrictions
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Repository will get more hits than a web page (Google
indexing)
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11. How to make your work Open Access
‘Gold’ Open Access
Publication in a journal that makes the article
immediately available
License your copyright, don‟t assign it
Repository will get more hits than a web page (Google
indexing)
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12. Finding Open Access material
Metalib Subject category: Open Access
http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals
BL Ethos for UK theses
http://oaister.worldcat.org/ 25 million records worldwide
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13. Promoting your OA work
Use social media eg blogs, Twitter
http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/2012/12/12/top-10-tips-on-how-to-
make-your-open-access-research-visible-online-published-
in-jisc-inform/
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14. Open data
Funders increasingly require datasets to be available for
re-use
Complexity of social science data
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/02/12/co
nfidentiality-and-open-access-to-research-data/
Importance of data cleansing as you go along
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