Presented at Curtin University for International Open Access Week

2. Raising your research profile using open access
Catherine New
Matthias Liffers
Curtin University Library

3. The deluge of information

4. Open access is…
• online and digital
• without cost to access
• peer reviewed research
• compliant with copyright legislation
• free of access barriers created by financial,
legal or technical issues
http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/open-access

5. Traditional publishing model

6. What the market will bear
• The Russell Group paid £18.24 million for
a single year’s access to Elsevier journals
• Research-intensive US institution paid $6
mil on journal subscriptions in 2009
T. Gowers (2014). Elsevier journals – some facts http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/
T. Bergstrom, P. Courant, R. Preston McAfee & M. Williams (2014). Evaluating big deal journal bundles http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9425.full#T1

7. Limiting your audience

8. Beneficiaries of open access
• General public
• Researchers in developing countries
• Practitioners
• Policy makers
• Researchers outside academia
• Researchers within academia

9. Feeling the strain
“Major periodical subscriptions, especially to
electronic journals published by historically
key providers, cannot be sustained:
continuing these subscriptions on their
current footing is financially untenable.
Doing so would seriously erode collection
efforts in many other areas, already
compromised.
(2012). Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448

10. Benefits to science
“A lack of access to information hinders
learning, stifles innovation and slows
scientific progress.”
E. McKiernan (2014). University research: if you believe in openness, stand up for it
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/aug/22/university-research-publish-open-access-journal

11. Lack of access can…
• Create bias in the sources used
• Compromise quality of the work
• Lead to redundant work or duplicated
efforts
• Limit scope of enquiry
research information network (2009). Overcoming barriers: access to research information http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/overcoming-barriers-
access-research-information

12. Increasing your impact
“If you get 900,000 or more hits in response
to a [Google] search for a subject, and your
research is on the first page, that can be
pretty impressive, and you can imagine the
effect on the researcher concerned.”
T. Cochrane (2014). Why open access is the next frontier for science http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/why-open-access-is-the-next-frontier-for-science/
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13. Why open access?
“If a research project is worth funding, then
its results are worth sharing.” Peter Suber
Springer (2013). Open access - broad readership, high impact: What authors need to know and how they can benefit
http://www.springeropen.com/sites/9014/download/A01240_DF_WhitePaper_Open_Access_web_final_Sep2013.pdf

14. How do you discover people?
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16. Making yourself discoverable
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17. What can you share?
• Papers
• Presentations
• Posters
• Mass communication
• Research data
• Anything that could be of benefit
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18. Papers
• Gold OA
– Made openly available on publishers’ site
– Article Processing Charge may be applicable
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19. Papers
• Green OA
– Submit to espace@Curtin via SCRIPT
– Generally requires “final accepted manuscript”
– espace staff will confirm copyright status
– Download statistics available (example)
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20. Presentations
• Slideshare
– http://slideshare.net/
• Add notes, audio, captions, links…
– example
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21. Posters
• Slideshare again!
– example
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22. Communicating
• Explaining research in plain English
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23. Sharing research data
• Open data sharing
• Get a DOI and get cited
• Currently under development
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24. Linking your outputs
• Staff profile
• ORCiD
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25. Questions?
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26. Attributions
• From the Noun Project
– Document by Rob Gill
– Contract by Luis Prado
– Link by Musket
– Network by Mister Pixel
– Payment by Shafiqa Naazira
– Papers by gema.pc
– Resume by Stephen Borengasser
– Tag by Rohith M S
– Time by Richard de Vos
– User by Wilson Joseph
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