ORO is the Open University's open access research repository that aims to be a complete record of all OU research publications. It collects a wide range of research outputs including journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, reports and presentations. Publications are added through both self-deposit and automated collection from publisher databases. ORO aims to make research openly accessible whenever possible in order to increase discovery and citation of OU research outputs.
ORCID Open research and Contributor IDs at The Open University 2022 - ScriptChrisBiggs
The document discusses ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs), which are 16-digit unique identifiers for researchers and contributors involved in academic research. ORCIDs can help disambiguate authors who share names, allow researchers to maintain a singular identifier throughout their career, and enable data to be transferred between different systems through APIs. The benefits of ORCIDs include disambiguation for researchers and administrators, compliance with funder and publisher requirements, and potential future uses for authentication. The document demonstrates how a researcher can create and populate their ORCID profile through the ORCID hub website and integrate it with the OU's ORO and ORDO systems.
ORO is the Open University's research publications repository that aims to provide open access to all OU research publications and act as a complete record of research conducted by OU researchers. It allows researchers to self-deposit or have mediated deposit of publications such as journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, and more. ORO had over 800,000 user sessions in 2021 and over 1.3 million pageviews, demonstrating its success in providing access to OU research outputs.
The role of DOAJ in quality assurance of OA publishingClara Armengou
This presentation discusses assessing the quality of open access publishing and research. It covers several topics:
1. It examines different ways of measuring quality, including indexing services, DOAJ criteria for publishing practices and open access, and citation metrics.
2. It addresses common misunderstandings about open access, and provides examples of copyright and licensing statements from Chinese journals.
3. It notes limitations of using citations, journal impact factors, or where research is published to assess scientific quality, stating that quality can only be assessed at the article level.
Distinguishing between Questionable, Low Quality and Quality Indonesian Open Access Journals using DOAJ criteria and analytical tools.
March 25-17, Bali Indonesia
Tom Oijhoek, DOAJ Editor-in-Chief
DOAJ is a directory of open access journals that aims to be a credible, trustworthy index. It evaluates journals based on a set of criteria to ensure quality control and prevent questionable publishing practices. Over 12,000 journals from 128 countries are indexed in DOAJ, providing access to over 3 million articles. The directory helps researchers identify reputable open access journals and avoid questionable publishers that lack rigorous peer review or engage in inappropriate marketing.
This document discusses assessing the quality of scholarly publishing and research. It begins by outlining some of the advantages of open access publishing, including increased citations and readership. It then examines methods for assessing research quality, including peer review and citation analysis. However, it notes several flaws with relying solely on citations and journal impact factors to determine quality. Specifically, it shows data that the majority of papers published in high impact journals receive fewer citations than the journal's impact factor. The document thus argues for the need for alternative metrics and a multidimensional approach to research assessment.
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
ORCID Open research and Contributor IDs at The Open University 2022 - ScriptChrisBiggs
The document discusses ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs), which are 16-digit unique identifiers for researchers and contributors involved in academic research. ORCIDs can help disambiguate authors who share names, allow researchers to maintain a singular identifier throughout their career, and enable data to be transferred between different systems through APIs. The benefits of ORCIDs include disambiguation for researchers and administrators, compliance with funder and publisher requirements, and potential future uses for authentication. The document demonstrates how a researcher can create and populate their ORCID profile through the ORCID hub website and integrate it with the OU's ORO and ORDO systems.
ORO is the Open University's research publications repository that aims to provide open access to all OU research publications and act as a complete record of research conducted by OU researchers. It allows researchers to self-deposit or have mediated deposit of publications such as journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, and more. ORO had over 800,000 user sessions in 2021 and over 1.3 million pageviews, demonstrating its success in providing access to OU research outputs.
The role of DOAJ in quality assurance of OA publishingClara Armengou
This presentation discusses assessing the quality of open access publishing and research. It covers several topics:
1. It examines different ways of measuring quality, including indexing services, DOAJ criteria for publishing practices and open access, and citation metrics.
2. It addresses common misunderstandings about open access, and provides examples of copyright and licensing statements from Chinese journals.
3. It notes limitations of using citations, journal impact factors, or where research is published to assess scientific quality, stating that quality can only be assessed at the article level.
Distinguishing between Questionable, Low Quality and Quality Indonesian Open Access Journals using DOAJ criteria and analytical tools.
March 25-17, Bali Indonesia
Tom Oijhoek, DOAJ Editor-in-Chief
DOAJ is a directory of open access journals that aims to be a credible, trustworthy index. It evaluates journals based on a set of criteria to ensure quality control and prevent questionable publishing practices. Over 12,000 journals from 128 countries are indexed in DOAJ, providing access to over 3 million articles. The directory helps researchers identify reputable open access journals and avoid questionable publishers that lack rigorous peer review or engage in inappropriate marketing.
This document discusses assessing the quality of scholarly publishing and research. It begins by outlining some of the advantages of open access publishing, including increased citations and readership. It then examines methods for assessing research quality, including peer review and citation analysis. However, it notes several flaws with relying solely on citations and journal impact factors to determine quality. Specifically, it shows data that the majority of papers published in high impact journals receive fewer citations than the journal's impact factor. The document thus argues for the need for alternative metrics and a multidimensional approach to research assessment.
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
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The Semantic Web meets the Code of Federal Regulationstbruce
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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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Introduction to the Directory of Open Access journalsIna Smith
The document provides an introduction and overview of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It discusses what the DOAJ is, defines open access, and outlines the mission and goals of promoting open access scholarly journals. It also describes the application and evaluation process for journals to be included in the DOAJ, and lists the required information journals must provide, such as editorial details, aims and scope, peer review process, and digital archiving policies.
The document discusses assessing the quality of open access journals. It begins by addressing misconceptions that open access journals are lower quality than subscription journals. In reality, the percentage of high quality journals is about the same for open access and subscription journals. The quality of a journal can be assessed based on the quality of publishing and quality of the science. Quality of publishing looks at factors like peer review processes, editorial boards, and transparency. Quality of the science focuses more on the individual article level rather than journal-level metrics like impact factors. Overall impact factors are an imperfect measure and do not necessarily reflect the quality of individual articles or journals overall.
Presentation by Dr Tom Olijhoek, Editor-in-Chief, at NEICON/ASEP Conference, May 17, 2016, Moscow, on the status of DOAJ post the shut-down of the reapplication project
Transcription of the 8th May 2017 ANDS webinar : ORCID for funders.
Slides and Video recording can be accessed form the ANDS website: http://www.ands.org.au/news-and-events/presentations/2017
The presentation discusses the following topics:
- What Is ORCID?
- Why ORCID Important?
- ORCID Features
- Create an ORCID Account
- ORCID Researcher Profile
Jisc provides several services to support open access discovery and monitoring in the UK. However, a large proportion of open access material is still difficult to find due to issues with messy, lossy, expensive, and unreliable discovery. Improving the use of persistent identifiers across repositories, publishers, and funders could help create a more sustainable and comprehensive system for discovering open access content globally. This would better support finding, reusing, and measuring the impact of publicly available scholarship.
The document discusses arguments for and against open access publishing. Supporters argue that self-archiving models are available when funds run out for paid models, and that increased visibility and citation rates result from open access. Reputable open access publishers and journals exist, and contents are indexed in directories. Peer review still occurs and does not ensure quality alone. Permissions allow commercial use which can benefit all. Legal concerns still apply but open access makes plagiarism easier to detect. Opponents counter that fully funding author-pays models may not be possible or fair, and that high impact journals are not always compliant. Reputation and findability could decrease but directories help visibility. They also argue quality may decline without peer review and
Freemium open access publishing learning to let gotobygreen
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Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access and what to do abo...NASIG
Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including:
FlourishOA
Microsoft Academic Graph
PLOS API
Unpaywall Journals
We will also talk about Open Access on the subscription side, including how much of what you subscribe to is available as open access and how you can use that in your subscription decisions and negotiations.
The presenters are the cofounders of Our Research, the nonprofit company behind Unpaywall, the primary source of Open Access data worldwide.
Heather Piwowar, Co-founder, Our Research
Jason Priem, Co-founder, Our Research
Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access--and what to do ab...Heather Piwowar
#NASIG2020 presentation
Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including Unsub.
Follow at @unsub_org
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This document provides information about open access, copyright, and publishing. It defines open access as making research freely available online for anyone to read and reuse. There are two main routes to open access - gold open access through open access journals which may charge article processing fees, and green open access by self-archiving in an institutional repository after publication in a subscription journal. The document discusses choosing appropriate journals, retaining intellectual property rights, and depositing work in the institutional repository OARS to increase visibility and meet funder and REF requirements.
This document provides information about digital identity profiles for researchers, including Google Scholar, Publons, ResearchGate, and ORCID. It discusses how to create accounts with each service and customize profiles to track publications and citations. Google Scholar allows researchers to monitor who is citing their work. Publons and ResearchGate profiles showcase publications and collaboration networks. ORCID provides persistent unique identifiers for researchers to ensure proper attribution of their work across systems.
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Open Access in Horizon 2020: how to comply with H2020 Open Science requirements
Managing and Sharing Research Data
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Data Management Plans
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Hybrid journals: Ensuring systematic and standard discoverability of the late...lisbk
This document summarizes a presentation about developing a solution to systematically identify open access articles published in hybrid journals. The presentation proposes adding Creative Commons license and copyright metadata to journal RSS feeds so discovery services can automatically identify open access articles. A prototype was developed with participating publishers, allowing JournalTOCs to begin systematically identifying open access articles from hybrid journals of those publishers. The presentation concludes that this helps make open access articles less hidden and improves their discoverability and usage.
The Semantic Web meets the Code of Federal Regulationstbruce
Semantic Web and natural-language-processing techniques meet the Code of Federal Regulations. Presentation from CALICON12 by the Legal Information Institute. Work on definition extraction, linked data publishing, search enhancement, vocabulary discovery.
Joint presentation with Nuria Casellas.
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.
Introduction to the Directory of Open Access journalsIna Smith
The document provides an introduction and overview of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It discusses what the DOAJ is, defines open access, and outlines the mission and goals of promoting open access scholarly journals. It also describes the application and evaluation process for journals to be included in the DOAJ, and lists the required information journals must provide, such as editorial details, aims and scope, peer review process, and digital archiving policies.
The document discusses assessing the quality of open access journals. It begins by addressing misconceptions that open access journals are lower quality than subscription journals. In reality, the percentage of high quality journals is about the same for open access and subscription journals. The quality of a journal can be assessed based on the quality of publishing and quality of the science. Quality of publishing looks at factors like peer review processes, editorial boards, and transparency. Quality of the science focuses more on the individual article level rather than journal-level metrics like impact factors. Overall impact factors are an imperfect measure and do not necessarily reflect the quality of individual articles or journals overall.
Presentation by Dr Tom Olijhoek, Editor-in-Chief, at NEICON/ASEP Conference, May 17, 2016, Moscow, on the status of DOAJ post the shut-down of the reapplication project
Transcription of the 8th May 2017 ANDS webinar : ORCID for funders.
Slides and Video recording can be accessed form the ANDS website: http://www.ands.org.au/news-and-events/presentations/2017
The presentation discusses the following topics:
- What Is ORCID?
- Why ORCID Important?
- ORCID Features
- Create an ORCID Account
- ORCID Researcher Profile
Jisc provides several services to support open access discovery and monitoring in the UK. However, a large proportion of open access material is still difficult to find due to issues with messy, lossy, expensive, and unreliable discovery. Improving the use of persistent identifiers across repositories, publishers, and funders could help create a more sustainable and comprehensive system for discovering open access content globally. This would better support finding, reusing, and measuring the impact of publicly available scholarship.
The document discusses arguments for and against open access publishing. Supporters argue that self-archiving models are available when funds run out for paid models, and that increased visibility and citation rates result from open access. Reputable open access publishers and journals exist, and contents are indexed in directories. Peer review still occurs and does not ensure quality alone. Permissions allow commercial use which can benefit all. Legal concerns still apply but open access makes plagiarism easier to detect. Opponents counter that fully funding author-pays models may not be possible or fair, and that high impact journals are not always compliant. Reputation and findability could decrease but directories help visibility. They also argue quality may decline without peer review and
Freemium open access publishing learning to let gotobygreen
20 years after the Budapest Declaration only around half of journal articles are Open Access and hardly any books. This suggests that the Green and Gold Open Access models aren't working. I also argue that neither model gives any incentive to build audience size - which is surely the objective if Open Access is going to really benefit society. In this presentation, I propose a Freemium Open Access publishing model as an alternative.
Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access and what to do abo...NASIG
Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including:
FlourishOA
Microsoft Academic Graph
PLOS API
Unpaywall Journals
We will also talk about Open Access on the subscription side, including how much of what you subscribe to is available as open access and how you can use that in your subscription decisions and negotiations.
The presenters are the cofounders of Our Research, the nonprofit company behind Unpaywall, the primary source of Open Access data worldwide.
Heather Piwowar, Co-founder, Our Research
Jason Priem, Co-founder, Our Research
Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access--and what to do ab...Heather Piwowar
#NASIG2020 presentation
Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including Unsub.
Follow at @unsub_org
Open access copyright and publishing - UoS guidee1033930
This document provides information about open access, copyright, and publishing. It defines open access as making research freely available online for anyone to read and reuse. There are two main routes to open access - gold open access through open access journals which may charge article processing fees, and green open access by self-archiving in an institutional repository after publication in a subscription journal. The document discusses choosing appropriate journals, retaining intellectual property rights, and depositing work in the institutional repository OARS to increase visibility and meet funder and REF requirements.
This document provides information about digital identity profiles for researchers, including Google Scholar, Publons, ResearchGate, and ORCID. It discusses how to create accounts with each service and customize profiles to track publications and citations. Google Scholar allows researchers to monitor who is citing their work. Publons and ResearchGate profiles showcase publications and collaboration networks. ORCID provides persistent unique identifiers for researchers to ensure proper attribution of their work across systems.
Session 1
How to implement Open Science
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Open Access Publishing
How to implement Open Access and Open Science
What is Open Access and how to provide Open Access
Open Access in Horizon 2020: how to comply with H2020 Open Science requirements
Managing and Sharing Research Data
Open, closed and shared data
Data Management Plans
Open Data in Horizon 2020: how to comply with H2020 Open Science requirements
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Open Access Week promotes open access to research. Open access digital content is available online, free of charge, and free from most copyright and licensing restrictions. ORCiD provides researchers with a unique identifier to connect their work, affiliations, and contributions across disciplines, borders, and time. Registering for an ORCiD identifier allows researchers to archive all of their work, such as pre-prints, presentations, and materials, in one place and make it accessible to potential collaborators and funders. Connecting work with an ORCiD identifier also helps connect researchers to the global academic community.
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1. Introduction to Open Research Online (ORO): The OU's research
publications repository
What is ORO trying to do? ORO attempts to be a complete record of research
publications by OU researchers
OU Researchers | Slide
ORO attempts to collectresearch authored predominantlyby the OU researchcommunity –
whetherthey be centrally contracted research staffor Postgraduate researchers. They are our
core audience. We also collectresearch from visitingresearchstaff and emeritusstaff.
We will also collectresearch from other centrallycontracted staff (e.g.publicationsfrom research
that goesin in Learnerand DiscoveryServices) and we will representresearchfrom ALs where
there is a centrallycontracted OU co-author. But ifthe AL is the sole OU affiliatedauthorwe don’t
routinelycollectit – that maychange!
Publications | Slide
HistoricallyORO was quite restrictive and just intendedto holdjournal articles (thisis because
these were the typesof publicationsthat we thought we could make open access.
But the demands ofRAE and REF exercisesmeantthat ORO neededtobecome a central dataset of
all the OU’s research publications,notjust a subsetthat were ripe for making open access. This
meant we neededto capture articles,books and book chapters, editedbooks,conference
proceedingsetc. In short, all publicationsthat might fall in the REF radar.
But, I wouldargue, a real benefitofa an institutional repositoryis that ability to provide a
platform for all those outputs from research that don’t fit neatlyinto traditional modesof
scholarly communication,e.g.reports, presentationsand posters,reports and theses. So ORO
doesn’tjust collectwhat may be REFable,rather it should collectanything that may be useful to
an interestedreader.
For example,we have collectedexemplartaughtstudent researchthat providesexistingand
prospective students with examplesofresearchprojects for theirmodules.
Deposit | Slide
How do the publicationsget onto ORO? We have a mixedmodel:
Selfdeposit– this is historicallythe way everythinggot addedto ORO, where the co-
author or surrogate added the entry to ORO themselves.
Automated deposit– for good reasons, people weren’taddingthingsto ORO and we
realisedwe weren’tcapturing everything in ORO we should. So we use servicesthat
aggregate publisherand CrossReffeedstogather publicationsautomatically.
ORO | Slide
So ORO collectsall this informationand displaysin hopefullyuseful ways to a user of the
repository. Thisis an institutional website thatcan be viewedglobally.
We can search or browse ORO in various ways e.g.by author, academic unit,research groupings
etc. We can visitthe website and,I hope,usefullynavigate it. And that’s important but
fundamentallywe organise this data so it can be reused outside of ORO.
2. People Profiles | Slide
OK, so one ofthe ways ORO data isused isin the People Profile Pages. Each OU researcherhas an
institutional profile page,and on that page there is a tab for publications. That publicationspage
is dynamicallyfedfrom ORO, so whateveris in ORO is also on the publicationstab on the people
profile page. And ifyou click on the publicationinthe person profile youwill end up inORO.
Research Groupings | Slide
Publicationscan be tagged with a research group or a research centre and these can be viewedon
the ORO webpages. This data can be pulledusingRSS feedsto the research groupingsown
website.
EThOS | Slide
EThOS is the British Library service that indexesandmakes available all UK awarded PhD theses.
The service directlyharvests ORO and collectsvery nearly 5,000 records ofOU awarded thesis –
increasingtheir visibility.
Library Search | Slide
The OU Library search indexesall the publicationsinORO. So when you search the library you are
searchingpublicationsthe library licensesfrompublishersand publicationswe curate in ORO.
Web Search, Google | Slide
Search engineswill indexmultiple sourcestoget data to return in websearch. ORO is one of
them,so when you search Google fora publication you will oftenreturn resultsthat include both
the publishersite and a repository record.
And if ORO is the only place that has data about a publication,then ORO may be the onlyreason
the publicationgetsreturnedin search. So addingpublicationdetailsto ORO makes that
publicationvisible onthe web. it means that publicationisvisible to Google and Google Scholar
search.
Google Scholar Search | Slide
This is evenmore evidentin the resultsfrom Google Scholar for the same publications.
Numbers (Site Visits from Google Analytics) | Slide
So because ORO isindexedby so many other services itgets quite a lot of traffic– I think they are
quite big numbers.
Global visitors | Slide
Whilsttraffic iscentred around the UKand Europe,ORO doeshave a global reach.
So, whilstORO isa local industry.I spendmost of my working weekon it, otherfolk in the library
spendtime on it addingdata and managing the service. People across the OUcontribute data to
ORO – it can seemlike a cottage industry. But it doeshave a global reach. And largelythat’s
because we presentthe data in a way that can be harvestedand aggregated by other services.
3. What is ORO trying to Be? ORO attempts to be an Open Access platform for all OU
research publications
OPEN ACCESS | Slide
ORO is the OpenAccess repositoryfor the OU,so I’mgoing to have to touch on OpenAccess
publishing. OpenAccess publishingisabout making researchpublicationsfree to read as opposed
to behinda paywall.A paywall that you can onlyget beyond if you pay for a personal subscription,
or if an organisation you belongto pay for an institutional subscription. It’s about openingup
research publicationsto people beyond universities.
Institutional repositorieswere originallycreatedas part of what was calleda ‘subversive
proposition’. It was thought that in the newworld of the internet,researchcould be
communicatedin a simple,costeffective wayvia listservsand repositories. By postingresearch in
this way the financial demandsof large commercial publishers mightbe challengedand perhaps
undercut.
I’m not sure we’ve come very far in 20 years, open accesshas become a complexand contested
fieldand a fieldwhere,it’sclear to me that, openaccess is not necessarilyequitable access– and
maybe we were naieve to everconflate the 2. I don’t want to go too far down that rabbit hole. If
you want to read about it check out Buranyi’s long article in Guardian from 5 yearsago that
remainsthe best starting point intrying to understandacademic publishing.
OPEN ACCESS IN ORO 2020 | Slide
Nevertheless,OROisa site of OUOpen Accesspublications. This shows us all the publicationsin
ORO with a publicationdate of 2021: 1289, or 61%, are OpenAccess.
Some are GoldOpenAccess papers, these are papers where the publishedversionismade
freelyavailable on the publisherssite. You may have to pay an article processingcharge
for these,you may not. The OU may pay the APC for you,as part ofa transitional
agreementor on an ad-hoc basis. However,the OU may not pay, you may find yourself
having to scrabble around trying to find £2,500 from somewhere topay these charges.
Some of this 61% are GreenOpenAccess papers.These are paperswhere publishersallow
a version(oftenthe author acceptedversion) to be depositedona repository like ORO.
The GreenOpenAccesspapers in this sectionwill be ones where there is a zero or a very
short embargo periodthat has expiredsince the papers were first publishedsometime in
2021.
Additionally,there will be over 100 PhD level theses anda bunch ofother grey materials
like reports and other presentationswe cabn make freelyavailable on ORO.
Some are restricted355, 17% – theywill mostly be those GreenOpenAccess papers where
the embargoperiod isover 12 months.
Some are metadata only. These will be books and book chapters where there are no self-
archiving optionsopen to authors. 465, 22%. To be fair book chapters are betterthan they
were but, it’s absolutelythe case that OpenAccess for books and book chapters is not as
evolvedas it is for journal articles.
4. Open Access in ORO Numbers 2021 | Slide
And everyyear ORO isthe site of a lot of downloadsof OpenAccess materials. 835,171
downloads– that numberremovesa lotof web bot traffic. An unfilterednumberisover 2 million.
Open Access REF Requirements | SLIDE
Repositorieshave beenimportant for organisations seekingtomeetfunder OpenAccess
requirements.
For the last REF to meetthe policy OpenAccess requirementsyoucould have publishedarticelsor
conference items Gold(withquite limitedlicence conditions) ordepositan acceptedversion in
ORO with a 12 or 24 month embargo. That seemedlike a bit of an ask back in the day but is
beginningto looklike child’splay.
Open Access UKRI Requirements | Slide
From April UKRI (forjournal itemsand conference proceedings) are expectingGoldOpenAccess
with a journal title eithercompletelyOpenAccessor transitioningto it. Or greenOpenAccess
with zeroembargo and CCBY licence – and publishersare in no positionto satisfythe later
requirement.
Broken Access | Slide
So, fundersare becomingmore exactingon how to publishOpenAccess,publishersare not
bendingto these requirementsandresearchersare the folk in the middle.
OK. That’s only one OA scenario,there are many others and it’s reallycomplexso I’m going to
extract myselfagain from that rabbit hole and get back to talking about ORO.
Open Access Browser Extensions 1 | Slide
Various OpenAccess servicesrelyon openaccess papers from repositorieslike ORO – these
servicesindexopenaccess papers in repositoriesand pointto these openaccess papers from
search and indexingplatforms. It givesrepositoriesanextendedreach and placesthem in a global
scholarly communicationsinfrastructure. These include browserextensionslike CORE,Unpaywall
and Open Accessbutton
Open Access Browser Extensions 2| Slide
These browser extensionsworkby detectingDOIs on webpagesand linkingthat DOI to an Open
Access textin a repository. So when you land on a paywalledpaper on a publishersite,and the
service identifiesanopenaccess match for that DOI you getthese icons poppingup tellingyou to
click here to read a free full text version.
Open Access | Web of Science:
This openaccess data has beenlicensedtoindexingserviceslike WebofScience. So if you search
Webof Science for a paywalledpaper that isOpen Accessin ORO (or another repository) youwill
be able to click on a linkand accessthe OA repository version.
Open Access | Slide
So Open Accessis facing some seriousdilemmas,or maybe battles. But at the current time
repositorieslike ORO remainpart of the global discovery& access infrastructure.
5. Using ORO
Demo adding an item and updating an item
Help / Guides
1. SherpaRomeo(Database of publisher&journal self archivingpolicies)
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
2. OpenResearchOnline (ORO) - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-support/open-access-
publishing/open-research-online
3. How to add an itemto OpenResearchOnline - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-
support/open-access-publishing/how-add-item-open-research-online
4. How to importan itemto OpenResearchOnline - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-
support/open-access-publishing/how-import-item-open-research-online
5. Managing your OpenResearchOnlineitems - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-
support/open-access-publishing/managing-your-open-research-online-oro-items
6. Addingfull texttoOpenResearchOnline - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-
support/open-access-publishing/adding-full-text-open-research-online
7. OpenResearchOnline FAQs - https://www.open.ac.uk/library-research-support/open-access-
publishing/open-research-online-oro-faqs