Open Access Debate Resources
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A presentation given by ILS at York St John University to support researchers' understanding of open access.
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Open Access Debate Resources
- 1. Open access
- 2. Irony by Sheila Lund. Used under CC BY 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/dKSq8j .
- 4. Useful links • Debates on open access – Johnson vs Harnad – https://ersatzben.wordpress.com/ – http://openaccess.eprints.org/ • Check journal publishing policies – http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Editor's Notes
- What is open access? Debatable! Many viewpoints. Some believe all research should be both accessible and reusable by all. Suber states that it “Removes price barriers…AND permission barriers.” Key initiatives: Budapest Open Access Initiative (Feb 2002) Bethesda (June 2003) and Berlin (Oct 2003) statements Core concepts: No barrier to access Access should be immediate Access should be to full text What is open access NOT? It is NOT incompatible with peer review. Quality is no different to traditional publishing models. It is NOT predatory. The same pitfalls happen in traditional model. So how does this fit with current publishing practices and what does it mean for you? Right now – uni/funding pays for research to take place, gives time for reviewers to review and then pays for access to journal via subscriptions/ILLs. Publishers get all of the money with minimal input. Next REF has called for a change in approach. To be eligible for REF, research must be made open access in some way. Allows public to access the research that they have often paid for without fees AND levels playing field for smaller institutions who have smaller budgets. Motivation may be ideological (i.e. want access to research to be fair and open to all and for publishers to wield less power) or pragmatic (need good REF score). Either way, it is happening. Methods?
- Green and gold. What are they? Green: Delivery via a repository For journal articles, usually (but not always) a post-print version of an article Usually (but not always) includes an embargo period Not limited to research outputs via journals Gold: Delivery via a publisher’s own website Published in final version format without embargo Can (but not always) involve payment of a fee Some funding bodies insist on outputs being published via this method Key debate – Johnson vs Harnad https://ersatzben.wordpress.com/ vs http://openaccess.eprints.org/
- Key debate – Johnson vs Harnad https://ersatzben.wordpress.com/ vs http://openaccess.eprints.org/