Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing
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Scholarly publishing has traditionally been expensive and restricted access, but open access aims to make research freely available to all. PLOS was founded to pioneer open access scientific journals, making research immediately available online to anyone without subscription barriers. PLOS has grown to several journals and alternative business models to traditional publishing, helping advance open data and new metrics to better track the impact of research.
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Predatory publishing: what it is and how to avoid itUQSCADS
There are currently approximately 28,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers annually. Although the majority of new journals are legitimate, the credentials of some are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as 'predatory'. They commonly send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions and request payment of article processing charges, but lack academic rigor or credibility.
This presentation provides researchers with
an insight into predatory behaviors and and how they can avoid them.
- 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.
There are currently approximately 28,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers annually. Although the majority of new journals are legitimate, the credentials of some are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as 'predatory'. They commonly send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions and request payment of article processing charges, but lack academic rigour or credibility. This presentation will look at examples of publishers, publications and provide practical tips to identify and avoid predatory publishers.
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.
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Predatory publishing: what it is and how to avoid itUQSCADS
There are currently approximately 28,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers annually. Although the majority of new journals are legitimate, the credentials of some are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as 'predatory'. They commonly send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions and request payment of article processing charges, but lack academic rigor or credibility.
This presentation provides researchers with
an insight into predatory behaviors and and how they can avoid them.
- 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.
There are currently approximately 28,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers annually. Although the majority of new journals are legitimate, the credentials of some are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as 'predatory'. They commonly send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions and request payment of article processing charges, but lack academic rigour or credibility. This presentation will look at examples of publishers, publications and provide practical tips to identify and avoid predatory publishers.
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.
Presentation for NISO's Virtual Conference: 'Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?'
Speaking as himself, rather than as the Managing Director of DOAJ, Lars Bjørnshauge gives his own views on what is wrong with the current state of publishing, open access, and the culture of prestige, tenure and promotion within academic institutions.
Presented on 23rd September 2015
A Presentation made to Liber Europe's 'The Use and Generation of Scientific Content – Roles for Libraries' in Budapest, Hungary Sept 12th, 2016 by Lars Bjørnshauge.
In this presentation, Lars calls into question the use and success of Green Open Access, reminds us of the key role of librarians in the success of open access and calls on governments to support Gold Open Access.
A presentation made to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories on the current state of open access in the United States and how DOAJ is tackling issues of quality in open access publishing
A presentation made by Judith Barnsby, DOAJ Publication Specialist, to the Library Publishing Coalition on 19th October 2016. Judith discusses why DOAJ is important to open access and which criteria DOAJ requires to be accepted into it.
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 is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
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 Theses & Dissertations: Airing the Anxieties & Finding the FactsJill Cirasella
Writing a thesis or dissertation is hard, and now that most theses and dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, graduating students face an additional complication: they must decide whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA), or, at universities that require OA, they must come to terms with the fact that their work will be OA. In this presentation, I survey and scrutinize the anxieties and myths surrounding OA theses and dissertations.
A presentation on predatory publishing, in the Information Interventions series, sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable , the CUNY Office of Library Services, and Just Publics @ 365.
It is critical to understand the history and background of predatory publishing, a fairly recent phenomenon, whether you are an author or a librarian called upon to assess a publisher. This talk addresses the politics of Gold Open Access, the Bohannon "sting," and the issue of "third world-ism." Red herrings of predatory publishers are an especially useful aspect of this presentation.
A Presentation made to Liber Europe's 'The Use and Generation of Scientific Content – Roles for Libraries' in Budapest, Hungary Sept 12th, 2016 by Lars Bjørnshauge.
In this presentation, Lars calls into question the use and success of Green Open Access, reminds us of the key role of librarians in the success of open access and calls on governments to support Gold Open Access.
A presentation made to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories on the current state of open access in the United States and how DOAJ is tackling issues of quality in open access publishing
A presentation made by Judith Barnsby, DOAJ Publication Specialist, to the Library Publishing Coalition on 19th October 2016. Judith discusses why DOAJ is important to open access and which criteria DOAJ requires to be accepted into it.
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 is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
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 Theses & Dissertations: Airing the Anxieties & Finding the FactsJill Cirasella
Writing a thesis or dissertation is hard, and now that most theses and dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, graduating students face an additional complication: they must decide whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA), or, at universities that require OA, they must come to terms with the fact that their work will be OA. In this presentation, I survey and scrutinize the anxieties and myths surrounding OA theses and dissertations.
A presentation on predatory publishing, in the Information Interventions series, sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable , the CUNY Office of Library Services, and Just Publics @ 365.
It is critical to understand the history and background of predatory publishing, a fairly recent phenomenon, whether you are an author or a librarian called upon to assess a publisher. This talk addresses the politics of Gold Open Access, the Bohannon "sting," and the issue of "third world-ism." Red herrings of predatory publishers are an especially useful aspect of this presentation.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
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Why Research Libraries supporting Open Access is vital to the achievement of ...ldore1
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In this talk there will be a discussion of the vital importance of the availability of Open Access research publications to improve access to information and knowledge to enable the fulfilment of the SDGs to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, encourage economic growth, and tackle environmental destruction and climate change.
There will also be discussion of the role Libraries have to play in supporting Open Access at a national and local level, the options for publishing Open Access and the challenges.
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A presentation, made by Lars to the Asian Council of Science Editors, on the problems facing academic publishing and what DOAJ is doing to push a change towards greater openness
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Scholarly publishers are receiving strong signals from funders and governments that they must make publicly-funded research freely available to read and reuse. And beyond open access, open data, reproducibility, improving the article and user engagement are the next steps towards transforming science.
Presentation delivered by cIRcle staff for graduate student series at UBC Library on Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities. Topics include publisher agreements, author rights, benefits of using cIRcle, UBC's digital repository .
Dr Kamran Naim (CERN)
As open access continues to expand with increased emphasis on an building equitable and inclusive future for scholarly communications, a number of collective approaches have emerged, with libraries/consortia entering into partnerships with publishers. This talk will aim to clarify the various approaches undertaken, explaining their theoretical foundations and their grounding in collective action theory. Whether motivating partnership based on disciplinary interests (as in SCOAP3), mission alignment (PLOS CAP) or financial self-interest (Subscribe to Open), the talk will illuminate the levers and functional components of each model, to enable greater awareness of the diversity of collective approaches, and inform greater confidence in investment in collective open access models.
Presentation held Open Access week 2014 at the seminar "Open up your research and kick-start your research career", Oslo University Hospital 23/10/2014
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Open Knowledge and the Benefits for University-based ResearchUQSCADS
This presentation was a part of the 2014 Open Access Week Seminars at The University of Queensland Library. Anna Gerber, Technical Project Manager ITEE eResearch Lab at The University of Queensland, shares her insights into the benefits of open data, open access, open source and open learning in the context of university-based research. Anna highlighted the possibilities for the formation of new collaborations with researchers and policy makers and the innovation that can result from making research more discoverable in an online environment. Anna also introduced the audience to the Open Knowledge Foundation (of which she is an Australian Ambassador), a community initiative that seeks to bring together open knowledge groups from across Australia, in an effort to foster the sharing of data, information and knowledge.
Open Access, Intellectual Property and Conservation ScienceUQSCADS
This presentation was a part of The University of Queensland Library's Open Access Week 2014 program. Professor High Possingham spoke of his efforts to make research discoverable and accessible so that it could inform environmental and conservation policy and the fundamental belief that research that is funded by the people should be accessible by the people. As a researcher, policy maker, author of journal articles and monographs, journal editor, reviewer, and software developer, Professor Possingham was able to share his insight into the various ways he has shared his research with colleagues, governments and the general public.
In which journal should I publish my paper? What is an impact factor? How can I promote my research? Can I publish my thesis? What is peer review? This presentation provides an insight into publishing for the Research Higher Degree student or any undergraduate student who wants to publish their research.
Dr Alma Swan, "Is Open Acess just another fad?"UQSCADS
Inaugural UQ Open Access Eminent Speaker Forum
Dr Alma Swan, Director of European Advocacy, SPARC
"Is Open Access just another fad?"
Wednesday 30 October 2013
UQ Library, Scholarly Publishing and Digitisation Service (SPaDS) presentation for higher degree students on tips and resources available from the UQ Library and based on academic interviews, to help with getting published in journals.
Going for Gold and Greener Pastures: Open Access Explained
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Going for Gold and Greener Pastures: Open Access Explained
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Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Virginia Barbour
1. Open Access and PLOS: The Future of Scholarly
Publishing
Ginny Barbour
Medicine Editorial Director, PLOS
vbarbour@plos.org
@ginnybarbour
0000-0002-2358-2440
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2. Scholarly publication is old business
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Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal
Society:
Started in 1665; first journal
devoted exclusively to
science publishing
3. Scholarly publishing is big business
• More than 2000 publishers
– Commercial: Elsevier, Springer, Wiley Blackwell, etc
– University Presses: OUP, CUP, ACS, AIP
– Scholarly societies
– Independent not for profit, eg PLOS
– Open access, Subscription, Hybrid
• More than 25,000 journals
• More than 1.5 million articles published per year
• Worth many billions of dollars
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5. The internet changed everything
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There are three things that we need to understand
about the web. First, it is more amazing than we
think. Second, the conjunction of technologies that
made the web successful was extremely unlikely.
Third, we probably would not create it, or any
technology like it, today. In fact, we would be more
likely to cripple it, or declare it illegal.
James Boyle, Web’s never-to-be-repeated revolution, Financial Times, November 2, 2005
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Kiwi Open Access Logo by the University of Auckland, Libraries and Learning
Services is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
License.
9. • Free, immediate access online
• Unrestricted distribution and re-use
• Author retains rights to attribution
• Papers are immediately deposited in a public
online archive such as PubMed Central
• Bethesda Principles, April 2003
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Gold Open Access
10. Green Open Access
• Publication in a non-gold OA journal
then>>
• Deposition in a repository, either institutional, eg a
university; subject specific, or more general
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13. www.plos.org
All PLOS journals are gold open access
• Free, immediate access online
• Unrestricted distribution and re-use
• Author retains rights to attribution and copyright
• Papers are deposited in a public online archive
such as PubMed Central
Bethesda Principles, April 2003
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No permission
required
for any reuse
Translation
Redistribution
Photocopying
Coursepacks
Reproduction
of figures
Deposit in
databases
Downloading
data
Text mining
15. PLOS
• Founded in October, 2000
• December, 2002, $9M grant from Moore Foundation
• October 2003, 1st journal, PLOS Biology, launched
• Now has seven journals
• Now has diverse sources of revenue
– Publication charges
• $2900 for PLOS Medicine and Biology
• $2250 Community journals
• $1350 PLOS ONE
– Publication Fee assistance programme
– Institutional and individual memberships
– Advertising
• 2011 posted first surplus
20. PLOS ONE: a key Innovation - the editorial
process
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• Editorial criteria
• Scientifically rigorous
• Ethical
• Properly reported
• Conclusions supported by the data
• Editors and reviewers do not ask
• How important is the work?
• Which is the relevant audience?
• Everything that deserves to be published, will be published
• Therefore the journal is not artificially limited in size
• Use online tools to sort and filter scholarly content after
publication, not before
24. Open Access Momentum—Growing Percentage
of STM Articles Published Open Access
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Source: Web of Science and Scopus databases, Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Bjork
25. Your funders care:
ARC/NHMRC policies
• ―… requires that any publications arising from an [ARC/NHMRC]
supported research project must be deposited into an open access
institutional repository within a twelve (12) month period from the date
of publication‖.
• Say all metadata must be deposited in IR with a link to OA version as
soon as possible after acceptance
• Prefer the deposit of Accepted or Published version into an IR
• Permit the deposit into a subject repository (linking to the IR)
• Permit publication in an OA journal (linking to the IR)
• Both the ARC and the NHMRC do allow some of their grant allocation
to be directed to publication costs:
• NHMRC relates to any publication after 1 July 2012, regardless of the
grant that supported the research;
• ARC policy only affects publications arising from Funding Grants and
Rules 2013
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26. Many institutions care:
11/39 Australian universities have Open
Access mandates
• ANU
• Charles Sturt
• Deakin
• Edith Cowan
• James Cook
• Macquarie
• Newcastle
• QUT
• University of South Australia
• Victoria
• University of Queensland
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31. How can I tell if it’s Open?
• Illustrates a continuum of ―more open‖
versus ―less open‖
• Enables anyone to compare and
contrast publications and policies
• Broadens the understanding of OA
• Determines how open a publisher
and/or publication is by using the grid
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International Journal and
Research Academy
Invitation for Paper Submission
Publish your Paper through International Journal & Research Academy (IJARA)
IJARA�stands for International Journal & Research Academy. We are searching for scholars
from all over the world and from all fields of studies in order to bring them into a common
platform.�IJARA�is an international organization for promoting research and for providing a
common platform for research scholars from all disciplines.IJARA�is formed by group of
researchers, academicians and scholars based in many different countries (such as USA, UK,
Canada, Australia, Sweden, Italy, France, Poland, China, Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, India,
Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong) working with various esteemed
educational institutions, government and research organizations across the world.
We strive to promote �E-Publishing� by publishing our journals in Electronic
form,�IJARA�invites scholars, researchers, professionals and academicians to publish their
research papers in our journals.�IJARA�is keen to publish papers from researchers all over the
world.
Paper Submission Deadline:�May 20, 2013
Review Results (Acceptance/Rejection) Notification: Within 10 working days (maximum) of
paper submission.
Publication Date:�June 01, 2013
Send manuscripts to the assigned email address for each journal.
Submit articles for 2nd Issue, Volume 01 of following Journals
The author(s) can submit their manuscripts for the following journal categories:
International Journal ofBusiness & ManagementResearch [ISSN 2306-9165]
Research Journal ofFinance and Accounting [ISSN 1888-7373]
International Journal for Research and Developmentin Engineering [ISSN 2113-5468]
Research Journal on Distance Learning [ISSN 2113-7968]
Special Issue "Advances in Clinical Trials"
Dear Dr. Editors,
Please pay attention to our upcoming Special
Issue on "Advances in Clinical Trials"
( www.scirp.org/journal/ijcm), which will be
published in the "International Journal of
Clinical Medicine"(IJCM, ISSN: 2158-2882), a
peer-reviewed open access journal. We cordially
invite you to submit your manuscript to this
special issue through our Online Submission
System.
About Our Journal
■ Full peer review: All manuscripts submitted to
our journals undergo peer review.
■ Fast publication: Fast peer review process of
papers within approximately one month of
submission.
■ Low price: Publication Fee Assistance to
Authors from Low Income Countries.
To authors who cannot afford a full payment of
the fee, we may offer partial or total fee waivers
on the sole condition that the papers they submit
be of high quality. Article ProcessingCharges
for Low and Lower Middle Income Countries
are calculated according to the SCIRP Global
Participation Initiative.
Journal Introduction
■ IJCM has 315 papers in 19
issues so far
■ The downloads of articles in
IJCM exceed 171,000
■ The visits of the journal
exceed 340,000
■ The journal has been indexed
by 64 databases
Other Special Issues
on IJCM
■ Pediatric Surgery
Submission Deadline:
May 15th, 2013
■ Shoulder Surgery
Submission Deadline:
May 22th, 2013
>>More
Connect with Us
■ E-mail: ijcm@scirp.org
34. ―Open Access‖ does NOT tell you about
• The scope of the journal
• The quality of the journal
• The language of the journal
• The review process of the journal
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41. Technology is enabling major changes
in publishing
• Open Access to publications ✔
• Open Access to data
• Bringing authorship out of the shadows
• ORCID
• Contributorship
• Enabling correction of the literature
• Post publication peer review
• New ways of measuring impact
42. We need the data behind the science to be
visible
43. New PLOS Data Policy
• Ensuring access to the underlying data should be
an intrinsic part of the scientific publishing
process
• To ensure that all steps, from authoring to
publication, capture data and its associated
metadata well and then present them in optimal
human and machine-readable formats to all
readers and users of PLOS-published research
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44. Key elements
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• Update PLOS-wide data sharing policy (at
http://www.plosone.org/static/policies#sharing)
• Establish clarity with respect to authors‘ obligations
• New policy highlights author‘s responsibility to determine
and describe a data sharing plan
• New policy contains enhanced enforcement mechanism
• Therefore ensures transparency of data sharing, i.e.
compliance with policy is externally visible to readers (and
to Academic Editors/referees in peer review)
• Aim to ensure policy is workable across scientific
fields, and takes account of special considerations for
privacy (in relation to human-subject research, and other
issues)
52. Evaluation, Structured, Community
Experiment
I have some concerns about the
validity of this work
This is an exceptional example of
science done well
I see one or more clear problems
with the validity of this work
I believe this work is reliable
If the user selects either of these two
options, display the following:
If the user selects either of these two
options, display the following:
The authors have made an exceptional effort to
validate their conclusions
This work provides an abundance of data for the
community
This dataset has potential for further analysis in the
community
This study is exceptionally well-designed
I have successfully reproduced this work in whole or
in part
Insufficient detail to support argument
Inconsistent or erroneous logic
Problematic methodology and/or study design
There is no way the experiments could be
reproduced or tested
There were insufficient experimental controls
The data do not sufficiently justify the conclusions
Inappropriate statistical design or data analysis
OPTIONAL: OPTIONAL:
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64. Dear Dr Barbour:
Based upon data in part from our PLOS
article on lethal injection and testimony
from our co-author David Lubarsky, lethal
injection has been ruled (at least for now)
unconstitutional in the state of
Tennessee.
65. ―The Dirty War Index (DWI) method has been adapted for use in
NATO military environments to monitor civilian, woman and child
casualties. This version of the DWI is called a ‗Civilian Battle
Damage Assessment Ratio‘ (CBDAR).
Since October 2009, the CBDAR methodology has been used by
NATO forces in Southern Afghanistan in order to reduce the
possibility of injuring Afghan civilians. The methodology has
identified a number of military activities that historically lead to
civilian mortality that has led to NATO changing procedures.‖
66. In short…
The internet has changed academic publishing for good
Publishing is, more than ever, a service industry
Open (not just free) Access is a means to an end – the
next (interesting) bit is in your hands
There are so many different ways of accessing information
What made this all possible?
What is open access
What does it mean for my research?
Address at the beginning of the submission process, just like submission of the protocol, ethical approval, etc“optimal human and machine-readable formats” – an aspirational goal