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WELCOME TO“DISCOVERING OPEN ACCESS

SCIENCE RESOURCES”ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER SLA

VIRTUAL LUNCHFEBRUARY 21, 2013

Speaker:Matthew Von Hendy, Green

HeronInformation Services

The recording of this program will be posted athttp://rockymountain.sla.org.

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Today’s Presenter

Matthew Von Hendy, Green Heron Information Services

OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE RESOURCES VIRTUAL LUNCHMatthew Von Hendy MA/MLS

Green Heron Information Services

WELCOME!

Owner—Green Heron Information Services

Professional Librarian—National Academies of Science, EPA, NASA

Birder, cyclist, runner—recent Alaskan adventurer

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

MORE GOALS

Discuss future trends for open access science resources

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

CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN ACCESS

Tug of War between publishers, content producers, librarians & libraries and researchers

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

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

SEARCH TOOLS – MAJOR ONES

Google Scholar – scholar.google.com Use Advanced Search features, not ideal Scirus -- www.scirus.comMaintained 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.

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

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-

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

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

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.

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 Publicationshttp://publications.copernicus.org/open_access_journals/open_access_journals_l_o.htmlScientific 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

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/repositories.html

OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS

Directory Of Open Access Books (DOAB) - http://www.doabooks.org/

Directory of open access peer-reviewed books

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

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.

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

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=125NASA funded aerospace and related research. Popline- http://www.popline.org/Database covering biomedical and reproductive health with excellent international coverage.

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/entrez22 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

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.

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

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

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?

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

CONNECT WITH ME

Matthew Von Hendy Green Heron Information Services (240) 401-7433 info@greenheroninfo.com www.greenheroninfo.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/vonhendy Twitter @GreenHeronInfo FB: www.facebook.com/GreenHeronInfo

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