The document discusses open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. It notes the current publishing crisis where publishers get free content from publicly funded research while restricting access. OA aims to make research freely and permanently available online. There are two main routes to OA - green OA using institutional repositories, and gold OA through OA journals. ECU supports green OA through its Research Online repository. New requirements from the NHMRC will mandate depositing publications in OA repositories within 12 months. The document provides an overview of key issues around OA including copyright and benefits for authors, libraries and scholars.
Get assistance with grant compliance (public access policies), copyright questions, publication agreements, and rights retention from U of Tennessee's Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian.
Open Access and Publishers - Michael Mabe (2007)faflrt
Michael Mabe, formerly VP at Elsevier and currently CEO of the International Association of STM Publishers (with membership representing nearly all major society and commercial publishers); presented the commercial and society publisher perspective on the Open Access debate including the Brussels Declaration opposed to many of the tenants of Open Access. Sponsored by ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Roundtable (FAFLRT). Presented on June 25, 2007 at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
Get assistance with grant compliance (public access policies), copyright questions, publication agreements, and rights retention from U of Tennessee's Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian.
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Note: A similar slidedeck was presented at UC Davis (May 29th 2013 - http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/schcomm/2013/05/06/peerj_may2013/), and UCSF (June 17th 2013 - http://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/inplainsight/2013/06/14/peerj-innovating-scholarly-publishing/)
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Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
Slides and Audio of "Open Access - What's Happening" - PeerJ presentation the at UC Berkeley Oxyopia Seminar Series 4th June 2013 (http://vision.berkeley.edu/?p=2889) as hosted by Dr Suzanne Fleiszig.
Note: A similar slidedeck was presented at UC Davis (May 29th 2013 - http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/schcomm/2013/05/06/peerj_may2013/), and UCSF (June 17th 2013 - http://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/inplainsight/2013/06/14/peerj-innovating-scholarly-publishing/)
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Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
Open Access For Subject Specialist LibrariansMolly.ak
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Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Jay patel Open Access TIPPA Midwest presentation june 2013Jay Patel
Hello, this is the presentation I was invited to give about Open Access at TIPPA Midwest on June 13, 2013. The focus of the presentation is how open access is changing scholarly publishing.
As part of Open Access Week 2016 John Murtagh, Research Publications Manager at LSHTM gives a briefing on OA and how researchers can make their work Open Access without having to pay for it via the Gold Open Access route.
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Presentation on open access published at the ASAA (Association for the Studies of Australasia in Asia) International Conference in Hyderabad, India, December 2011
This is a brief presentation of a usability study on Serials Solutions Summon. A full paper, detailing all the findings, has been submitted for publication and is expected to be published by Emerald Publishing later in 2010.
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Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
1. ECU Graduate Research School
Forum of Postgraduate Students
Scholarly Publishing
and Open Access
Julia Gross ECU Library August 2012
2. Open Access (OA)
1. Scholarly publishing crisis
2. Open access
3. Open access and research impact
4. Copyright and open access
5. ECU’s open access repository Research
Online
6. New open access requirements tied to
NHMRC funding
5. Publishers
Global publishing business
The big 3 STM
(Science, Technology, Medicine)
42% of STM journals
Research is publically funded
– Authors not paid
– Publishers get free content
6. Authors (Researchers)
Authors interested in
– Creating new knowledge
– Research outcomes
– Citations and impact factors
– Peer review, quality control
– Career, academic promotion, tenure
Vested interest in the status quo
Authors value open access
7. Libraries
Online = library pays access fee to publisher
Licence agreements with publisher
Library budgets are under pressure
Percentage spent on journals increasing
(80% +)
Journal price increases
33% over 5 years (Ebsco data)
8. Scholars (Researchers)
Scholars need access to publications
Scholars lose out in closed access
Only staff/students of institution get access
Not free to those outside institution
Journals charge toll-access to articles
e. g. US$30 per journal article (Elsevier)
11. Open Access (OA)
OA to publicly funded research
OA embraced by
libraries, scholars, research
funders
OA benefits
Greater exposure
Universal access
Discovery via Google
12. Open Access – how?
Green Road OA
Author self archives
Institutional e-repository - ECU Research Online
Discipline repository
Gold Road OA
Publisher provides free access in OA journal
Sometimes author pays fee to publisher
13. Green Road OA: E-Repositories
Advantages
Free access to scholars
Available worldwide
Digital preservation for the long term
Challenges the closed publishing model
Faster access
Citation benefits
14. Green Road OA: E-Repositories
Advantages
Promotes and showcases your research
Preserves your research online
Stores and organises your research
Discovery via Google and Google Scholar
16. ECU’s E-Repository content
Published works
book chapters, conference papers
journal articles, working papers
Digital formats
media, music, images
Dissertations, theses
Conference and journal publishing
17. Copyright and OA
Commercial publishers usually ask you to
sign over copyright
Each publisher has different rules on OA
repository copies
Mostly post-print version
Post-print is version accepted for
publication, after peer review changes
ECU Library repository staff can advise
researchers
18. Gold Road Open Access
Directory of OA Journals
Over 7000 OA journals
Many are peer reviewed
Sometimes author pays a fee to publish
Example: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PLoS charges authors
19. Research funding and OA
New NHMRC requirements for OA
“publications arising from an NHMRC supported
research project must be deposited into an
open access institutional repository within
a twelve month period from the date of
publication.”
ARC not yet mandating OA, but may follow
Library repository staff can advise
20. International developments
U.S. Research Works Act (anti OA)
7,000+ researchers boycott Elsevier
U.S. Federal Research Public Access Act
(pro OA)
The Guardian (U.K.) pro-OA articles
U.K. Finch report (supports Gold OA)
21. What should you do?
Think before you give away your copyright
Find out the OA journals in your field
Greater access = greater impact
If you report your publication information to
ECU’s RAS, it will come thru to Research
Online
Be aware of funder requirements re OA
Julia Gross Presentation at FoPs seminar. August 2012.Abstract:In recent months there have been debates about the future of scholarly publishing accompanied by increasing calls for a greater emphasis on open access. In Australia the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has come out strongly in support of open access. Whatis this all about and how can researchers take advantage of open access? This FoPs session will cover: What is open access?Open access publishing models Increasing research impact by publishing in open access peer-reviewed publicationsCopyright and open accessHow can ECU’s open access Research Online repository help researchers?New open access requirements for NHMRC fundingInternational developments UK Finch report…………………………………There is lots of debate in this areaThis session is about presenting the debateWhat impact does it have on researchers……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
My presentation will cover 6 main areas of open access:Scholarly publishing crisisOpen access and OA publishing models Open access and research impact, how you can Increase your research impact by publishing in open access peer-reviewed publicationsCopyright and open accessHow can ECU’s open access Research Online repository help researchers?New open access requirements for NHMRC funding – a mandate
I will start by presenting “the problem” which is commonly referred to as the “scholarly communication crisis”What is this scholarly communication crisis?Since the mid 1990s digital publications have increased dramatically. Despite the explosion of digital publication worldwideoften quality scholarly literature is inaccessible to global researchers and is behind a paywall.Why is this so?Publishers (particularly in the areas of Science, Technology and Medicine) are in control and the current publishing model is skewed in their favour. While academic authors give away their intellectual property, academic publishers reap large profits. Libraries are caught in the middle, faced with rapidly rising subscription costs and budget pressures. This unique publishing model appears to be unsustainable, resulting in what has become known as the “scholarly communication crisis”This presentation will outline the nature of the crisis and look into the promise of new models that would provide free and open access to research outputs
Is a battle going on. It helps to start by looking at the key playersWho are the key players?What does this mean for researchers?Thekey stakeholders in scholarly communication are publishers, authors, libraries and scholars….can also add research funding bodies to that list I will present now the positions of each of the key players
Who are these publishers?STM publishing is global business dominated by three main players: Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwells.Accounts for 42% of STM journalsBut there are other major publishers who operate under the same modelThe bottom line is thatResearch is publically fundedAuthors are not paidPublishers get content for freeThere is of course another side to the argument:Publishers’ side of the argumentProvide outlet for researchMediate between authors and librariesManage publication processManage peer review processEnsure qualityMarket and distribute the product
Authors, who are researchers and academic staff, mostly, are interested in:Creating new knowledgeimpact of their Research and whether it can reach a wide audienceCitations and impact factors, who is citing them and wherePeer review and quality controlCareer, academic promotion, tenureVested interest in the status quo, the current system is well entrenchedAuthor attitudes towards open access publishing done byInTech Open Access Publisher. Survey 2011 75% authors rated open access as important
Prior to the late 1990s journals used to be published in print form. When e-journals started appearing they mostly came as bundles from a publisher and libraries were required to sign a licence for access to a bundle of journals, some of which they used to have in print and some they did not. Libraries paid a subscription fee and then set up access by IP range to ensure only our students/staff could access.Since then costs are increasingJournal price increasesMany libraries have cancelled journalsAt ECU the Percentage spent on journals now above 80%Means less money for booksCosts increasing above inflation….33% in 5 years, 2007-2011Some journals in the sciences now cost around $5,000, $10,000 and even $20,000 per yearLibraries are trying to confront the problemEven large, high prestige universities like Harvard are complaining about rising serials costs
Scholars need to be able to access the current literature in their fieldOnly staff/students of institution get accessThey loose out, particularly those in poorer institutions and in the developing world. Journals charge a toll for accessFor example at ECU: an international student collaborates with ECU researcher and together they publish article, BUT cannot read the results of research on returning home
Do these access barriers need to exist? Is there another way forward?The worldwide Open Access movement aims to shift the academic publishing paradigm from closed access to open access.
Why is Open Access important and what is its history?Movement towards Open access Moral argument that: Open access to publicly funded research should be mandatoryHistory: Budapest Open Access Initiative was an agreement to find another way forward, signed in 2002The BOAI challenged the status quo by sayingOLD WAY Taxpayers pay for (1) research funding (2) salaries of academics to do research and to do peer review (3) libraries to purchase the serials NEW WAY goal that everyone in the world to share knowledge freely and openly.Now, more pressing to have open access because Funders are mandating OA
Under the so-called Green Roadauthors can self archive on a website, or in an institutional repository, or in a discipline repositoryOpen access institutional repository contains published research outputs, among other thingsUnder the Gold Road the author publishes directly in an OA journalGold OA journal publishing has seen rapid growth mainly journals, but extending also to book chaptersThere are many models of OA journals, with some charging authors an open access publication fee. Many are peer reviewed
I will focus now on e-repositories, or institutional repositories repositories can be freely accessed by scholarsThey are available worldwide They ensure that articles have digital preservation for the longterm, a type of archiveChallenges the closed publishing modelFaster accessCitation benefits
Advantage of repositories are that theyPromote and showcase researchPreserve research onlineStore and organiseresearchOptimise a Google searchIncludedin Google ScholarEnhance scholarly communication
ECU’s institutional repository us known as Research Online at ECUhttp://ro.ecu.edu.au/
Repositories are very flexible:Published works book chapters, conference papers the copy received is mostly peer reviewed post printjournal articles, working papersDigital formatsmedia, music, imagesDissertations at ECU all dissertations now being published this wayConference and journal publishing
• Commercial publishers usually ask you to sign over copyrightEach publisher has different rules on repository copiesMostly post-print versionPost-print is version accepted for publication, after peer review changesECU Library repository staff can advise researchers
Directory of OA Journals http://www.doaj.org/ see handout7,000 OA journals, consider publishing in one of these.Many are peer reviewedAuthor may need to pay a fee to publishExample: Public Library of Science (PLoS)PLoScharges authors anywhere from $1,350 to $2,900 PLOS publishes seven peer-reviewed open-access journals
Dynamic area, fast changingResearch Works Act December 2011 “which would have rolled back the Public Access Policy ( iePubMed Central submission within 12 months) introduced by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2005, and forbidden other federal agencies from introducing similar policies”. http://poynder.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Research%20Works%20Act Who was behind Research Works Act ? US Lobbying by major academic publishing housesResearchers mounted a petition to boycott ElsevierU.S. Federal Research Public Access Act 2012 does the oppositeIn August 2011 George Monbiot in online version of The Guardian (UK newspaper)TitledThe Lairds of Learning the article took the line, that “academic publishers make <Rupert> Murdoch look like a socialist”The article claimed that the publishers are privateers?This article certainly captured the attention of those in the Open Access movement, including many librarians, as it moved the decade-long debate about the scholarly communication crisis, into the mainstream media. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialistIn the U.K. Finch Report support Gold OA
Think before you give away your copyrightFind out the OA journals in your field Greater Access = Greater ImpactIf you report your publication information to ECU’s RAS, it will come thru to Research Online (eventually)Be aware of funder requirements re OAThe Right to Research Coalition (US) has announced a new student guide to publishing openly, entitled “Optimize Your Publishing, Maximize Your Impact.” This new resource presents students with the ways in which they can make their research openly available for the widest possible readership and lays out the benefits of doing so. The guide is freely available on Open Access here at: http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/r2rc-launches-new-open-publishing-guide-for-studen.shtml
That brings to a conclusion my brief journey thru the scholarly communication crisis and open accessThanks for your attentionAre there any questions? Discussion?