Get assistance with grant compliance (public access policies), copyright questions, publication agreements, and rights retention from U of Tennessee's Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian.
2. What are we talking about?
• “Scholarly Communication”
• Traditional formats, new formats
• Copyright, author rights, publishing
practices, article sharing, funders’ public
access policies, impact metrics, and…
3. Librarian expertise means…?
• One example: Advising on Public Access
Policies
• DOD, DOE, NIH, NSF, USDA, Gates
Foundation, Sloan Foundation – the list
grows
4.
5. How is publishing changing?
• Funders’ Public Access Policies
• FASTR in Congress (S.779, H.R.1477)
• Open Access (OA) Policies
• Institutional: Harvard, MIT, Oregon State, the UC System
• Departmental
• OA Journals
• Preprints (arXiv and ASAPbio)
6.
7. Self-Determination
• Who did the work? Who owns the work?
• Who pays to create it? To access it?
• Who determines how to share the work?
8. Does the right to share matter?
1) Last year, UT was sent 5 take down notices
2) NY Southern District Court in 2015:
Elsevier v. Sci-Hub
3) #icanhazpdf
9. Researchers want to share. They often can’t.
Our system of scholarly publishing is
broken. And, it’s no longer ours.
How do we get it back?
10. Publishing Agreements =
Contracts
• Recognize that they’re legal documents
• Recognize that they’re negotiable (you can
change the terms)
• Authors have the right to hold onto their
rights (librarians can help them with that)
12. How to hold onto your rights?
• If you’re aiming for a particular journal, review their
standard publication agreement. (Sherpa/RoMEO
database)
• Rely on a grant policy or a departmental policy.
• Ask for a “license to publish” as opposed to a
copyright transfer agreement.
• Use an addendum. Retain the rights most
important to you.
14. Best Practices in Publishing
• COPE (Committee on
Publication Ethics)
• Open Access
• DOAJ (Directory of OA
Journals)
• OASPA (OA Scholarly
Publishers
Association)
15. Support from the Libraries
• Open Publishing Support Fund with ORE*
• PeerJ, BioMed Central memberships: Reduced fees
for OA publishing
• Trace (Green/Delayed OA, after an embargo)
• DMP Tool (Sample data management plans)
• We host new e-journals
*ORE and UT’s Humanities Center also offer a book subvention fund
16. Developments, Not Trends
• ORCID Identifier (ORCID search wizards)
• Symplectic Elements: Publications Help
• Metrics
• Alternative Metrics (e.g., Do Tweets
matter? Yes!)
More of a critique: Why, with the internet, do we still follow the traditional journal format? Limited number of publications for online “issues,” length of time before findings released, months if not years before findings are shared and reviewed?
See an infrastructure being built to support public access and self-determination of researchers.
CC-BY
Deposit in Trace (embargo permitted)
Better author rights (share, use in course texts)
Open Access