This document summarizes an open access workshop that discussed the importance of open access for researchers and science. It outlines the benefits of open access, such as increased visibility and citations for research. It also discusses different routes to open access like gold open access journals and green open access repositories. While noting the growth of open access, it acknowledges issues like predatory publishers and the need for quality peer review. Finally, it provides an overview of open access publishing models and statistics on open access publishing from Wits University researchers.
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Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Open Access refers to unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research outputs via the Internet, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Open Access is also often referred to as Gold or Green.
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
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Presentation from our AGM and afternoon of talks on the theme of Open.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mmit-2016-agm-and-free-talks-on-open-libraries-research-and-education-tickets-28552110130#
Stephen Pinfield - Professor of Information Services Management at University of Sheffield - @StephenPinfield
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
Open Access refers to unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research outputs via the Internet, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Open Access is also often referred to as Gold or Green.
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
Presentation from our AGM and afternoon of talks on the theme of Open.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mmit-2016-agm-and-free-talks-on-open-libraries-research-and-education-tickets-28552110130#
Stephen Pinfield - Professor of Information Services Management at University of Sheffield - @StephenPinfield
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This was her AMAZING and 100% great presentation response:
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.
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Open access workshop wits - 24th october 2013 - copy
1. Importance of Open Access for
researchers and science
Open Access Workshop
University of Witwatersrand
23rd October 2013
Johanna Kuhn
BioMed Central Ltd
3. Agenda
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Springer and Open Access
Importance of Open Access
Open Access - a changing landscape
Science Open Access Sting Operation and
Predatory Publishers
• Open Access publishing at Springer
• Open Access at Witwatersrand University from
Springer’s perspective
4. Open Access flavors at Springer
Authors’ Rights
• Self-archiving of
author’s accepted
manuscript version
• Upload service for
NIH funded authors
Hybrid Open Access
• Open Access option
in majority of
Springer titles
• Open Choice for
individual authors:
Article fee
€ 2200/ US$ 3000
Fully Open Access
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Journals & Books(NEW!)
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for journal articles
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license for books
5. Routes towards Open Access
• Gold OA
Publishing in an open access journal
– Fully OA journals
– Optional OA in traditional journals
• Green OA
Depositing articles in an OA repository
Subject repositories
Institutional repositories
– PubMed Central
– ArXiV
– University of Pretoria Repository
– WIReDSpace
6. BioMed Central
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Launched first open access journal in 2000
Now publishes 257 OA titles
Over 150,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published
Became part of Springer in 2008
More than 10 million article downloads per month
All research articles published under Creative
Commons license
• Costs covered by 'article processing charge' (APC)
7. What is
?
• Open access journals covering all disciplines
• Creative Commons
• Over 150 peer reviewed journals
• Planned addition of 400-500 journals in next few years
• Administered by BioMed Central
11. Open Access publishing
Different business model…..
• no subscription barriers
• universal access
• research is openly
licensed to allow reuse
Same quality and standards
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Editors in chief
Editorial boards
Peer review
Indexing
12. Why Open Access?
• Breaks down barriers between disciplines
• Promotes public engagement with scientific and medical
research
• Creates an open global forum for scientific communication
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For researchers:
Very high visibility
Widely indexed
No barriers to dissemination (also social sharing) and
access to research
• Higher citations
17. Open Access in 2013
• There are nearly 10.000 open access journals in the
DOAJ
• Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI
• Open access to research is now mandatory in nearly
150 institutions and at over 50 funders
• A recent study found that 8.5% of peer reviewed
articles are now published in a fully open access form*
*Study of open access – Bo Christer Bjork, PLOS One
20. Top 10 Impact Factors for
BioMed Central journals
Journal
Impact Factor
Genome Biology
10.3
Particle and Fibre Toxicology
9.18
BMC Medicine
6.68
BMC Biology
6.53
Breast Cancer Research
5.87
Retrovirology
5.66
Biotechnology for Biofuels
5.55
Molecular Cancer
5.13
Cell Communication and
Signaling
Critical Care
5.09
4.72
24. What happened?
• Versions of a fake science paper submitted to
304 Open Access journals, claiming miracle
cure for cancer had been found
• Papers include very serious mistakes;
experiments are obviously flawed and
therefore meaningless.
• Of 304 journals, 255 said that they would
review the study and 157 journals accepted
the paper to be published.
25. What does that mean?
• Bad news for Open Access?
=> The study did not include any non- Open
Access journals so, no comparison possible
• Peer Review system is flawed
• It's the ethics of the publisher / journal, not
the business model that determines quality
and sound publishing and peer review
=> BioMed Central, Plos and Hindawi were not
among those who accepted the paper
26. Predatory Open Access Publishers
Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory
scholarly open-access publishers
– Ethical standards established by membership
organisations such as OASPA (Open Access
Scholarly Publishers Association ) or COPE
– Editor and staff
– Business management
– Integrity
27. Solutions
• Improve standards of Peer Review
– COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
– WAME (World Association of Medical Editors)
• BMC is running innovative peer review
systems - all BMC series has "open review",
BMC's aim is ultimately quality and
transparency in an OA environment
• Peer Review Consortium
29. Business Model
Article-processing charge (APC) covers:
• Editorial: handling of manuscripts
• Technical: development, maintenance and operation of
online journal system
• Production: Formatting and mark up of articles, inclusion in
indexing services
• Marketing: Making sure readers and authors know about
the journal
• Customer service: Responding to authors/readers
30. BioMed Central & Springer Open
Institutional Agreements
Prepay Agreement
• Organisation covers the
article cost (APC) for their
researchers by deposit
• No membership fee
• Researchers do not pay
anything
• Discount on the APC for
institution
• Deposit available without
time limits
Shared Support
Agreement
• Cost shared equally
between institution and
researcher
• No membership fee
• Additional discount on
APC’s for researchers
• Deposit available without
time limits
Supporter Agreement
• Organisation does not
cover the APC for the
researchers
• Annual membership fee
for institution
• 15% discount on APC’s –
researchers pay less
For all agreement types:
• Automated article feeds
• Institutional Members Page
• Marketing and PR support
• Automatic IP recognition or submission by code
31.
32. 463 members in 51 countries
http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/
38. Most popular journals for
submissions
Genome Medicine
BMC Genomics
AIDS Research and…
BMC Oral Health
BMC Medical…
BMC Health Services…
BMC Research Notes
BMC Pediatrics
Arthritis Research &…
Boundary Value…
Malaria Journal
BMC Infectious…
Journal of the…
Parasites & Vectors
BMC Public Health
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39. Summary
• Open Access publishing is here to stay and it is
growing fast
• Open Access has
• Springer works closely with authors and
organisations to encourage Open Access
• OA is gaining importance at Wits University
• Involvement of universities, research organisations
and funders