A presentation about open access publishing.

1. May 2013
Stuart Lawson
Anglia Ruskin University

2. growth of open access
source: Laasko 2011

3. pathways
• Green open access - repositories
• Gold open access - journals

4. article processing charges?

5. UK funding policy

7. source: Lewis 2012

8. Open access quick glossary
APC: article processing charge. This is the charge levied by a publisher to
edit an article and make it ready for publication.
CC-BY: all Wellcome-funded research articles which are published under an
open access APC model must be licensed using the Creative Commons
attribution licence CC-BY. This means that anyone is free to copy, distribute
and display the work, to make derivative works and to make commercial use
of the work providing that they give the original author credit.
Embargo period: the period after which a published paper can be (or must
be) deposited in a repository. The Finch report recommended not less than
12 months. The final RCUK guidance is likely to take the Finch
recommendations and subsequent discussions into account.
Gold open access: "pay to publish" rather than "pay to read", so the journal
is paid to peer review, edit and publish a paper, for example via an APC, and
then it's freely available for all to read rather than only being accessible in a
subscription-only journal.
Green open access: parallel publishing in subscription journal and deposit
into an open access institutional or subject repository route.
JISC Inform 36, Spring 2013

9. References
DOAJ (DOAJplus). “RT @invisiblecomma: about 50% of articles indexed by DOAJ since start
of 2012 are CC-BY licensed: goo.gl/0gvjA #doaj #openaccess”. 4 April 2013, 12:53 p.m. Tweet.
Laasko, M. et al. 2011. The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to
2009. PLoS One, 6(6), e20961. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961.
Lewis, D.W. 2012. The inevitability of open access. College & Research Libraries, 73, pp.496-
506.
Reed Elsevier. 2013 Reed Elsevier 2012 Results. www.reedelsevier.com, 28 February 2013.
Available at: http://www.reedelsevier.com/mediacentre/pressreleases/2013/Pages/reed-
elsevier-2012-results.aspx [Accessed: 13 May 2013].
Solomon, D.J. and Björk, B.-C. 2012. A study of open access journals using article processing
charges. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8),
pp.1485–1495. doi: 10.1002/asi.22673

10. by Stuart Lawson
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