This document discusses open access, including what it is, why it is important, and recent policy developments regarding open access in the UK. Open access refers to research articles that are available online for anyone to read and use free of charge. The document outlines the main routes to open access, including green open access (self-archiving), gold open access (publishing in an open access journal), and hybrid open access. It also summarizes the UK Research Councils' new open access policy and how Durham University is supporting compliance with this policy through its open access project team and library services.

1. Open Access
what it is...
... and what is happening.

2. Outline
what, why, how...
... recent developments...
... Durham activities.

3. what?

4. What is Open
Access?

5. What is Open
Access?
An article that is
Open Access
can be
freely accessed
by anyone
in the world
using an internet
connection.

6. no subscription...
...no login or password

7. why?

8. the ethical
argument

9. “the results of argument for OA
Ethical
research that has
been publicly
funded should be
freely accessible
in the public
domain.”

10. the financial
argument

11. S
U
[often] Unpaid B Journal
Researcher
S
Researcher C Publisher
R
I
P
T
I
O
N
P
Does the Peer A
Publishes content.
research. Review. Y Charges researcher (and
Writes the public) to access the
W
article. A article they have written
L (and funded)
L

12. Journal price inflation

13. the
technology & innovation
argument

14. technology enables...

15. technology enables...
...unrestricted online
dissemination...

16. technology enables...
...unrestricted online
dissemination...
... opens up potential of
access and re-use...

17. ... increasing visibility,
reducing barriers to usage...

18. ... increasing visibility,
reducing barriers to usage...
... maximising potential
impact.

19. Online becomes free
Please
touch

20. how?

21. Routes to Open Accss main
Three
routes to
open
access

22. Green Open Access
Green Open Access
(self archiving)
author publishes in a journal...

23. Green Open Access
Green Open Access
(self archiving)
author publishes in a journal...
... then deposits a version of
the article in an open access
repository.

24. deposit may follow
Green period
an embargo
Open Access
set by the
publisher...

25. deposit may follow an
Green Open Access
embargo period set by
the publisher...
... version
deposited is
normally an
author ’s final
peer-reviewed
manuscript.

26. Gold Open Access
author publishes in an open
access journal...

27. Gold Open Access
author publishes in an open
access journal...
... journal provides free
access to article online.

28. author
normally pays
an ‘article
processing
charge’ (APC)
to publisher.

29. hybrid open access
published in a traditional
journal...

30. hybrid open access
published in a traditional journal...
... publisher provides gold OA
for individual articles...

31. hybrid open access
published in a traditional journal...
... publisher provides gold OA for
individual articles...
... in return for APC paid by or
on behalf of author.

32. Recent
developments

35. RCUK
Open
Access
Policy
16th July
2012

36. All Research Council
funded research
submitted to be
published from 1 st
Apr 2013 must...

37. be published in
compliant journals...

38. be published in compliant journals...
... include details of
funding received...

39. be published in compliant journals...
... include details of funding received...
... include a statement
on how data can be
accessed.

40. be published in compliant
journals...

41. - journals must provide
immediate gold OA under a CC-BY
licence and allow deposit

42. - journals must provide
immediate gold OA under a CC-BY
licence and allow deposit
or …

43. - journals must provide
immediate gold OA under a CC-BY
licence and allow deposit
or …
- allow green OA after a maximum
of 6 months (12 months for AHRC
and ESRC) under a CC-BY-NC
licence.

44. How will gold OA be funded?

45. Research Councils
will no longer fund
APCs through
individual research
grants...

46. ... from April 2013 will
only fund Gold OA
charges through block
grants to each HEI...

47. ... to be managed
centrally by each
institution.

48. What is
happening
at
Durham?

49. • 7th November 2012
- confirmation would receive £XXX,XXX of ‘pump-priming’
funding from Department of Business, Innovation & Skills.
• 8th November 2012
- Funding confirmed of £XXX,XXX for 2013/14 and £XXX,XXX
for 2014/15.

50. “In the first year (2013/14), RCUK will provide
funding to enable around 45% of Research
Council funded research papers to be published
using Gold Open Access … The remaining [55%]
of Research Council funded papers, it is
expected will be delivered via the Green Open
Access model.”

51. “In the first year (2013/14), RCUK will provide
funding to enable around 45% of Research
Council funded research papers to be published
using Gold Open Access …”

52. “… the remaining [55% ] of Research Council
funded papers, it is expected will be delivered
via theGreen Open Access
model.”

53. Durham Open Access
Project team
Drawn from University’s Academic Staff and
Professional Support Departments
- Research Office
- Library
- Finance
- Computing Information Services

54. Durham Open Access
Project team
… to answer some of the questions
compliance with the new policies
raise.

55. • How will authors know where to publish to be
RCUK compliant?
• How will APCs be paid?
• How will a central open access fund be managed?
• How will authors access funding?
•What happens when funding isn’t sufficient or
available?
• Double-dipping (paying journal subscriptions AND
paying to publish in them).

56. Library support for OA
• Durham Research Online
- Your institutional repository and
green route to open access
http://dro.dur.ac.uk

57. Library support for OA
• Support in checking publisher options
- can check if a journal is RCUK compliant,
and provide advice on routes available.
- will also be providing access to central
APC fund (but not setting criteria for
prioritising access)

58. Not limited to RCUK and
Wellcome Trust…
- Action on Hearing Loss
- Arthritis Research UK
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Department of Health
- Dunhill Medical Trust
- European Commission
- European Research Council
- JISC
- Marie Curie Cancer Care
- Motor Neuron Disease Association
- Parkinsons UK
- Science and Technology Facilities Council

59. Open Access and the REF

60. Open Access and the REF

61. Open Access and the REF

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