Stephen Carlton delivered a session on open access publishing. It includes an explanation for the motives of the open access movement, describes how open access typically works and points to local support available to University of Liverpool staff and students.
Stephen Carlton delivered a session on open access publishing. It includes an explanation for the motives of the open access movement, describes how open access typically works and points to local support available to University of Liverpool staff and students.
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.
International Open Access week at Leeds MetNick Sheppard
This is my own presentation but borrows too extensively from Alma Swan's presentation at Salford University not to credit her - Alma's content is reused under the terms of a Creative Commons - Attribution-Non-commercial-ShareAlike licence:
Swan, A. (2009) What an institutional repository can do for you - and for your institution. In: University of Salford institutional repository event (number 2), 15 December 2009, Salford, UK.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18364/
"PLoS ONE and the Rise of the Open Access Mega Journal" by Peter BinfieldPeter Binfield
A presentation made by Peter Binfield, of Public Library of Science (PLoS), to the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, June 1st 2011. Describing the model behind the journal PLoS ONE, some indications of the success of that model, and predicting the development of a new type of journal model for academic publishing - the Open Access Mega Journal.
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Open Access For Subject Specialist LibrariansMolly.ak
This presentation about open access was given to subject specialist librarians at the University of Michigan on June 9th, 2008. It provides an introduction to open access, describes the various controversies surrounding open access, and offers strategies for faculty and librarians interested in improving access to scholarly work.
FACETS, a new Canadian multidisciplinary open access journal from Canadian Science publishing is now accepting submissions! Learn more about the importance of open access and why we decided to launch a new journal.
Open Access Advocacy: Failure and Successes Leslie Chan
In this presentation I share personal reflection with regard to failures in Open Access advocacy, and draw lessons on how we could move forward based on past mistakes.
By Leena Shah
Managing Editor & Ambassador, DOAJ
Focus Group on Ethics, Research Integrity and Open Scholarship
Organized by Taylor & Francis
New Delhi, 13th April 2018
Open Access: Blazing Trails through the Scholarly Communication LandscapeMolly Keener
Slides from a presentation given before faculty at Furman University in Greenville, SC, as part of the Libraries' "Scholarly Conversations" series, and in celebration of Open Access Week 2012.
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.
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.
International Open Access week at Leeds MetNick Sheppard
This is my own presentation but borrows too extensively from Alma Swan's presentation at Salford University not to credit her - Alma's content is reused under the terms of a Creative Commons - Attribution-Non-commercial-ShareAlike licence:
Swan, A. (2009) What an institutional repository can do for you - and for your institution. In: University of Salford institutional repository event (number 2), 15 December 2009, Salford, UK.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18364/
"PLoS ONE and the Rise of the Open Access Mega Journal" by Peter BinfieldPeter Binfield
A presentation made by Peter Binfield, of Public Library of Science (PLoS), to the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, June 1st 2011. Describing the model behind the journal PLoS ONE, some indications of the success of that model, and predicting the development of a new type of journal model for academic publishing - the Open Access Mega Journal.
Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia BarbourUQSCADS
In this presentation, Dr. Barbour discussed the emergence of open access from traditional publishing models, the current open access landscape where PLoS journals have foreshadowed the development of megajournals as well as predicting future developments.
In defining the Open Access Publishing model, Dr. Barbour emphasized the crucial role creative commons licences play in ensuring that research is not only available free to view online, but is able to be re-used.
Open Access For Subject Specialist LibrariansMolly.ak
This presentation about open access was given to subject specialist librarians at the University of Michigan on June 9th, 2008. It provides an introduction to open access, describes the various controversies surrounding open access, and offers strategies for faculty and librarians interested in improving access to scholarly work.
FACETS, a new Canadian multidisciplinary open access journal from Canadian Science publishing is now accepting submissions! Learn more about the importance of open access and why we decided to launch a new journal.
Open Access Advocacy: Failure and Successes Leslie Chan
In this presentation I share personal reflection with regard to failures in Open Access advocacy, and draw lessons on how we could move forward based on past mistakes.
By Leena Shah
Managing Editor & Ambassador, DOAJ
Focus Group on Ethics, Research Integrity and Open Scholarship
Organized by Taylor & Francis
New Delhi, 13th April 2018
Open Access: Blazing Trails through the Scholarly Communication LandscapeMolly Keener
Slides from a presentation given before faculty at Furman University in Greenville, SC, as part of the Libraries' "Scholarly Conversations" series, and in celebration of Open Access Week 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Vortrag von Jürgen Christof auf der 16. BVB-Verbundkonferenz 06.10.2016
Open Access ist eine Haltung, die eine Universität, eine Bibliothek, aber auch ein Verbund einnehmen kann. Damit ist Openness kein Thema für ein Projekt oder eine Sonderabteilung, sondern zieht sich als ein roter Faden durch alle Geschäftsgänge und Dienstleistungen. Welche Open-Access-Dienstleistungen benötigen die Bibliotheken von den Bibliotheksverbünden?
The Open Access movement gains momentum – should young scientists care?Martin Ballaschk
This presentation acommodated a talk I held at the 14th PhD retreat of the two Berlin life science institutes MDC and FMP. Other participants included Zena Werb (UCSF), Helmut Kettenmann (MDC), Paul Schultze-Motel (Helmholtz OA Office) and Angelika Lex (Elsevier).
The main introductory points have bee adressed by a moderator before, so I don't introduce definitions of green and gold open access. The talk is focused on open access journals (what is commonly perceived as "the" open access) and the PhD's students view on it, but also mentions the possibility of deposition of "unfree" publications in publicly accessable repositories ("green OA") as an alternative.
The goal of the discussion and the presentation was to raise awareness for the journal crisis, the possibility of funding and fee waivers in OA journals, and scientist's vs. publisher's interests.
- 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.
Open data and open access: sharing our research with the worldBen Skinner
A presentation I gave in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge on the importance of data sharing, and publishing in open access journals. The presentation was based heavily on Jelena Aleksic's talk at Open Research Cambridge (http://www.slideshare.net/jelena121)
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
Presentació a càrrec de Lluís Anglada, director de Ciència Oberta al CSUC, duta a terme a la Training Session on Open Science and Open Access al Centre de Recerca Matemàtica de la UAB l'11 de novembre de 2018
Presentation helt at the Research Conference on Scientometrics, STI Policy and Science Communitcation 31th October - 3rd November 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Slides from a webinar for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 24th February 2016.
See the URI below to access the full report from the RSC survey "The role of libraries in open access publishing":
http://www.rsc.org/campaigns/m/lc/lc16013/open-access/
We often hear that we are in a transitional phase of open access publishing, but it is not always clear how we will reach a fully open access environment, what that will look like and what it means for scholarly research. This webinar will draw insights from a librarian survey we ran in 2015, discussing areas where librarians feel a lack of confidence and presenting technical and policy developments.
Register to gain a deeper understanding of:
• The historical and political context of scholarly publishing
• Funder and other policy requirements for Open Access (e.g. HEFCE and RCUK in the UK, Horizon2020 in Europe and NIH is the USA)
• Developing models of OA including “Gold”, “Green” and “hybrid”
• Jisc support services for OA
• Social media and OA – e.g. “Altmetrics” (alternative metrics) as potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material
Slides and Audio of "Open Access - What's Happening" - PeerJ presentation the at UC Berkeley Oxyopia Seminar Series 4th June 2013 (http://vision.berkeley.edu/?p=2889) as hosted by Dr Suzanne Fleiszig.
Note: A similar slidedeck was presented at UC Davis (May 29th 2013 - http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/schcomm/2013/05/06/peerj_may2013/), and UCSF (June 17th 2013 - http://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/inplainsight/2013/06/14/peerj-innovating-scholarly-publishing/)
AUTHOR:ARTHUR SALE
The Open Source movement, of which Linux is a shining example, is a showcase of how accessibility makes for excellence. A parallel thrust is currently being conducted in the research institutions and the publishing industries of the world to create Open Access to the world’s publicly funded research. Arthur Sale will trace the origin of the movement, its economics and the forces holding it back, and where we are now, particularly in Australia. Open Access, or OA, has very many more active participants than Open Source, and many more nay-sayers, cautious Scrooges, and ignorant people. The struggle is titanic – the benefits equally large!
http://freeasinfreedom.modernthings.org/d/doku.php?id=arthur_sale
Open access resources refer to digital materials, often scholarly or educational in nature, that are freely available for anyone to access, use, and distribute without the need for subscription fees or payment. These resources promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the democratization of information.
Similar to Opening up science to the world: open access and why it matters (20)
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
4. The practice of science
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Basic building blocks of ideas
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5. The importance of scientific writing
and publishing
To travel across centuries, science needs to be
saved in written form
6. 20th/21st century publishing
- Unprecedented quantity of science
- Needed to introduce more standardised
publishing and quality assessment
- Gold standard: independent
peer review
- Papers became a standard unit
of science
7. Traditional publishing model
- Scientific journals are commercial entities
- Scientists submit articles and publish for free
- Scientists do peer review for free
- Journals make money through subscriptions
8. The problem with traditional
publishing
Only people with the
right journal
subscriptions can see
all the bricks
9. The Open Access idea
All public scientific
efforts should be
freely available
globally
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10. This is a large scale question
1 million papers a year published in
biomedical sciences alone!
Some journals cost up to $40,000 a year
11. Obvious problem of the traditional
model
Paywall
Prohibitively expensive for:
- Scientists from less well-off institutions
- Start-ups, small businesses, innovators
- Interested members of the public, eg:
- Patients researching their own disease
12. Other less obvious problems
- 1 million papers a year in biological sciences
alone -> would be great to text mine! Can only do
this with open access portion.
- Science is meant to be reproducible - easier
when papers and data are shared.
- Duplication of effort and money wasted as a
result.
16. Gold Access model
- An open access take on traditional publishing
- Instead of relying on subscriptions for profit,
the journals instead charge the authors a
submission fee (~£1000+ per paper)
- For universities, this means that subscription
fees can instead be used as submission fees.
17. Successful example
- BioMed Central
Spin-off from a publishing company
Publishes 258 open access journals
Currently owned by Springer
p.s. Not to be mixed up with PubMed Central:
A free full text archive of biomedical and life
science journal literature (US NIH). Currently has
2.9 million articles which are free to access,
mainly deposited directly by participating
journals.
18. Gold Access problems
Prohibitively expensive publishing. Opens up
who can read the research, but restricts who can
actually publish stuff.
Works for well funded universities and
disciplines, but not necessarily widely applicable.
However: not all OA journals charge fees, and
some do waive them.
19. Green Access model
- Many publishers allow authors to publish some
version of their manuscript on their website
“preprint” = manuscript before peer review
“postprint” = accepted manuscript after peer review
- Green Access = authors depositing their own
manuscripts online so that they can be accessed
freely. Currently ~900,000 papers in ArXiv
20. Green Access pros
- Free access without paying submission fees
- Potential to subvert traditional publishing
- Well-off universities can still pay subscription
fees, but more individual papers accessible to
people who couldn’t otherwise afford them
21. Why isn’t everyone doing it?
- Very popular in some fields (almost all papers in
maths and physics are self-archived), but less so
in others
- Not all journals allow it (about 65% do), and
different journals have different policies.
- Requires effort from researchers and can be
confusing.
- People might be reluctant to deposit preprints,
as papers change a lot during peer review.
22. The spectrum of open access
PLoS information sheet for understanding open access
23. 1. What is Open Access and why it matters
2. Current Open Access models
3. Open Access advocacy and innovations
24. Ground-up initiatives
Researchers have been doing the following:
- Submitting papers to OA journals
- Self-archiving
- Refusing to peer-review for closed journals
- Boycotting specific publishers (Elsevier!)
25. Top-down initiatives
- Funding bodies are starting to demand that
papers made with their funding be open access
- Some universities require all staff to submit
paper copies to archives (triples self-archiving
rate!)
(Gargouri et al 2012)
26. PLoS (Public Library of Science)
Scientific community grassroots initiative.
7 peer reviewed journals
Uses gold model, but with adjustments / fees
waived e.g. based on country
PLoS also does a lot of open access advocacy.
Innovative: PLoS ONE also subverts impact
factor measures.
28. The future
Currently, around 25% of articles are available as
open access. What can we do to make that figure
higher?
- Lobby institutions for more top-down initiatives
- Raise awareness among scientists, of both the
gold and green OA models
- Make the green model simpler for people
- Innovative business models - e.g. iTunes style
paper purchase?
- Subverting current system - paper torrenting
29. Does OA go far enough?
- Most science papers are incomprehensible to all
but a few people. And even those few people
struggle.
- Rather than just making papers available, should
we aim to make them understandable? It would
help scientists as well!
30. Discussion points
- Does everyone agree that OA is important?
- What’s included in OA? Just the paper? Data?
Images? Text? Should you be able to reproduce
them? Does that have consequences?
- Which groups of people is it important to, and
how can we best meet the needs of those groups
of people?
- Which one wins, gold OA or green OA? Or is it
more complicated than that?
- Do we even need journal publishers at all? Can’t
the universities sort it out themselves?