This slidedeck provides an introduction and overview of high quality open access (free) science related resources.

1. WELCOME TO
“DISCOVERING OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE
RESOURCES”
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER SLA VIRTUAL
LUNCH
FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Speaker:
Matthew Von Hendy, Green Heron
Information Services

2. The recording of this
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3. Today’s Presenter
Matthew Von Hendy, Green Heron Information Services

4. OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE
RESOURCES VIRTUAL LUNCH
Matthew Von Hendy MA/MLS
Green Heron Information Services

5. WELCOME!
 Owner—Green Heron
Information Services
 Professional
Librarian—National
Academies of Science,
EPA, NASA
 Birder, cyclist, runner—
recent Alaskan
adventurer

6. VIRTUAL LUNCH GOALS
 Briefly discuss what open access is, current status
of open access and major issues/challenges
 Cover key search tools for open access science
resources
 Look at the major science publisher initiatives in
this area
 Examine sources for open access science journals
 Very briefly talk about data-sharing repositories and
open access e-books
 Discuss subject specific open access science
databases

7. MORE GOALS
 Discuss future trends for open access science
resources

8. WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS
 Digital, online, free of charge and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions
 PloS description– “free availability and unrestricted
use”—major thrusts of movement
 Varying degrees of open access
 Plos helpful guide-- http://www.plos.org/wp-
content/uploads/2012/10/OAS_English_web.pdf

9. CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN ACCESS
 Tug of War between publishers, content producers,
librarians & libraries and researchers

10. CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
 Many different types of models for OA publishing
 Explosion in number/types of OA material make it
difficult to keep track of everything
 Quality control varies widely—some resources are
very good, some are not so great
 Copyright and other re-use issues
 Viable ways for OA publishers to make money

11. A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL POINTS
 Science open access resources won’t replace high-
quality science databases such as Web of
Knowledge, Scopus etc.
 Open access resources while free to the user have
a hidden cost (albeit this maybe low) in their
creation

12. SEARCH TOOLS – MAJOR ONES
 Google Scholar – scholar.google.com
Use Advanced Search features, not ideal
 Scirus -- www.scirus.com
Maintained by Elsevier a federated search that covers
journals and science related materials from the web
 Mendeley -- http://www.mendeley.com/research-
papers/search/
Organization, collaboration and search tool—free to
use-requires downloading application.

13. SEARCH TOOLS II– DOE RELATED
 DOE Information Systems Science Accelerator--
http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/dsa/search.html
 Federated search covering DOE related research,
articles and conference proceedings
 Science Gov http://www.science.gov/scigov/
 Searches over 50 U.S. Government science-related
databases and websites
 WorldWideScience.Org --
http://worldwidescience.org/wws/
 Federated search that covers national and
international government science resources

14. SEARCH TOOLS III -- OTHERS
 Open DOAR Content Search
http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
Maintained by the University of Nottingham—very
good quality control
 Open Science Repository http://www.open-
science-repository.com/search-research-
papers.html
Open repository for scientific papers—not great for
searching
 OAIster http://oaister.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
Open access project started by University of
Michigan—picked up by OCLC-

15. MAJOR SCIENCE PUBLISHER OA INITIATIVES
 Taylor and Francis
http://www.tandfonline.com/search/advanced
Limit to ‘Only Content I have full access to’
 Wiley
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html
Use search box on page
 Springer http://www.springeropen.com/search
You can create free account—save searches, most
search functionality, output options

16. MAJOR SCIENCE PUBLISHER OA INITIATIVES
II
 Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Goes directly to Science Direct interface—few open
access resources mixed in with for pay results—no
way to sort results
 Sage http://sgo.sagepub.com/cgi/collection

18. SCIENCE JOURNALS
 BioMed Central ---
http://www.biomedcentral.com/journals/bysubject
Publisher of 248 open access peer-reviewed science,
technology and medicine journals.
 HighWire ---- http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Publishers of 1700+ peer-reviewed science journals—
older content is frequently open access
 Public Library of Science-- http://www.plos.org/
Advocacy organization of publisher of 7 high quality peer-
reviewed open access journals. PLOS One largest peer-
reviewed journal.

19. SCIENCE JOURNALS II
 Hindawi Publishing- --http://www.hindawi.com/journals/
Publisher of 400+ peer-reviewed open access journals—
search box in upper right hand corner
 Copernicus Publications
http://publications.copernicus.org/open_access_journals/o
pen_access_journals_l_o.html
Scientific society open access journal publisher.
 Directory of Open Access Journals --
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en
Key resource, journal title search, article search as well

20. OPEN ACCESS DATA AND DATASETS
 Explosive growth, development of many resources
 Databib— http://databib.org/
Major directory of data repositories--searchable
 Brian Westra’s (University of Oregon library)
excellent guide to data research management
resources--
http://library.uoregon.edu/datamanagement/reposito
ries.html

21. OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS
 Directory Of Open Access Books (DOAB) -
http://www.doabooks.org/
Directory of open access peer-reviewed books

23. SUBJECT SPECIFIC OA SCIENCE DATABASES
 Agricola-- http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
Agriculture and agriculture-related database from the
USDA
 arXiv-- http://arxiv.org/
Provides open access to nearly 800,000 e-prints in
the area of physics, mathematics, computer science,
quantitative biology, quantitative finance and
statistics.
 Chemistry Central--
http://www.chemistrycentral.com/
Open access chemistry publisher

24. SUBJECT SPECIFIC OA SCIENCE DATABASES
II
 CiteSeer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Digital library and search engine focused on
computer and information science.
 Defense Technical Information Center
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/
A searchable repository for all publicly accessible
DOD science and technical research
 DOE Scientific and Technical Information
Bridge-- http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Provides access to over 312,000 documents and
citations of the DOD research report literature.

25. SUBJECT SPECIFIC SCIENCE DATABASES III
 ENTEWEB World Energy Base
https://www.etde.org/etdeweb/basicsearch.jsp?pg=
2
International database covering all aspects of energy
research. Free registration required.
 GreenFile www.greeninfoonline.com
Primarily bibliographic database covering all aspects
of human impact on the environment
 IAEA’s INIS Database http://www.iaea.org/inis/
International Nuclear Information System database
on nuclear science and technology

26. SUBJECT SPECIFIC SCIENCE DATABASES IV
 INSPIRE-HEP http://inspirehep.net/
A database of high energy, particle physics and
astrophysics .
 NASA Technical Reports Server
http://nix.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=125
NASA funded aerospace and related research.
 Popline- http://www.popline.org/
Database covering biomedical and reproductive
health with excellent international coverage.

27. SUBJECT SPECIFIC SCIENCE DATABASES V
 PubChem- http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The 3 databases in PubChem provide information on
the biological activities of small molecules.
 PubMed-- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
22 million citations for biomedical literature from
MEDLINE, life science journals, and on-line books.
 SciFlo—Scientific Electric Library Online--
http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php?lang=pt
Focus on scientific peer-reviewed journals from South
America with emphasis on Brazil

28. SUBJECT SPECIFIC SCIENCE DATABASES VI
 Toxnet- http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
The NLM’s databases on toxicology, hazardous
chemicals, environmental health and toxic releases.
 TRID-- http://trid.trb.org/
Transportation-related research covering 940,000
records of transportation research worldwide.
 United States Geological Service Publications
Warehouse http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/
Database of USGS funded research reports and
publications.

29. DATABASES EXTRA--
 Dozens of open access technical scientific
databases are also available
 An excellent example—listing of open access
databases in geology and marine sciences from the
University of New Orleans library
http://libguides.uno.edu/content.php?pid=161121&sid
=1400581

31. FUTURE TRENDS SCIENCE OPEN ACCESS
 New models of peer-reviewed journal publishing
 eLife http://www.elifesciences.org/about/
http://elife.elifesciences.org/
 PeerJ-- https://peerj.com/ (99$ fee for researchers
covers lifetime of publishing)
 Many other examples as well

32. NEW COLLABORATIONS
 Collaborations between publishers, libraries,
institutions and librarians
 scoap3—consortium for oa publishing in particle
physics-- http://scoap3.org/
 Could this be a model for the future?

33. HAPPENINGS IN EUROPE
 UK government commission report—”Finch Report”
 Come out strongly in favor of open access
 Requires that all journals publishing research paid
for in part or full by the government offer
researchers either ‘gold’ or ‘green’ level of open
access to articles starting this year
 European Union following suit—Eu2020 mandate
 Publishers realize that open access is here to
stay

34. CONNECT WITH ME
 Matthew Von Hendy
Green Heron Information Services
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35. THANK YOU!