5 things to know about oa

5 Things to Know about Open Access

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Goals1. Define Open Access

2. Explain the types of Open Access publishing available

3. Discuss how to evaluate reputable journals for open access

4. Discuss how scholars make their research openly available

5. Explore the benefits of Open Access publishing to increase research impact

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5 Myths About Open Access

❑ “That’s not good research”

❑ “It costs me too much money”

❑ “I’ve never heard of any good Open Access publishers”

❑ “The people who need my work already have access to it”

❑ “Open Access will destroy academic societies”

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= FREE ACCESS

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Defining OA

“Open source, open access, open education, open data, open science: all of these movements share a commitment to the removal of barriers to access Scholarly Communication and restrictions for use.”

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TYPES of PUBLISHING

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Types of Publishing Options

❑Paid Access

❑Hybrid Open Access

❑Gold Open Access

❑Green Open Access

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Publishing Options: Paid Access (paywall)

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Publishing Options: Hybrid Open Access

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Publishing Options: Gold Open Access

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❑Varying degrees of Gold❑Can be free to publish❑Can also require APC❑Pay to retain certain copyrights or remove embargo❑Best scenario: free to publish, no embargo restrictions

Ex: Public Library of Science (APC), Indiana Magazine of History(Embargo), College & Research Libraries (no APC, No Embargo)

Publishing Options: Green Open Access

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❑Self-Archiving Institutional Repository

Subject-based Repository

❑Often required by funding agencies

❑Embargo friendly (0-24 months)

❑Use Sherpa-Romeo (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/)

MYTH #1“That’s not good research!”

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“That’s not good research!”

Often confused with predatory journals… but! OA Journals are peer-reviewed world-class scholars on editorial boards

How can you make sure? Check DOAJ.org Review their editorial board Ask colleagues

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MYTH #2“It costs me too much money!”

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“It costs me too much money!”

There’s not always a charge to publish OA Include OA charges in grant applications Some publishers offer discounts (e.g. BMC) Some institutions provide funding If publish Green, doesn’t cost anything

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MYTH #3“I’ve never heard of any good OA

publishers!”

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“I’ve never heard of any good OA publishers!” Commercial Publishers

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Elsevier Wiley Taylor & Francis

Societies American Psychological Association Royal Society of Chemistry Society for Neuroscience

University Presses Duke University Press Oxford University Press

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MYTH #4“The people who need my work already

have access to it!”

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“The people who need my work already have access to it!”

Even Harvard says they can’t afford everything Reach unintended audiences Other scholars Public Practitioners

Inequities in Internet Access nationally and worldwide

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MYTH #5“OA will destroy academic societies!”

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“OA will destroy academic societies!”

Varying views on OA from societies There are many kinds of OA! Subscription with Green OA Subscription with embargo

Societies are contracting with publishers who contract with commercial publishers

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WHY PUBLISH

OPEN ACCESS?

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News outlets

• Over 1,300 sites

• Manually curated list

• Text mining

• Global coverage

Social media

and blogs

• Twitter, Facebook,

Google+, Sina Weibo

• Public posts only

• Manually curated list

Reference

managers

• Mendeley, CiteULike

• Reader counts

• Don’t count towards the

Altmetric score

Other sources

• Wikipedia

• YouTube

• Reddit

• F1000

• Pinterest

• Q&A

Post-publication

peer review

• Publons

• PubPeer

Policy documents

• NICE Evidence

• Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change

• Many more…

What OA sources can be tracked?

How is online attention aggregated?

Search for links to

papers.

Follow a list of

sources.

Collate

attention.

Display data in

“Altmetric details pages”.

E.g. blogs, news, policy

documents, social media.

Automatically link

searching and text

mining.

Disambiguation of

mentioned items across

different versions.

Collecting attention data

Reporting attention data

Altmetric Details Page.

All research outputs with

mentions have an Altmetric

Details Page in our

database.

Want to learn more?

SPARC : sparc.arl.org

“HowOpenIsIt?” Open Access Spectrum:

plos.org/open-access/howopenisit/

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