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Electronic Publishing and

Open Access New Alternatives for Scientific

Communication

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Questions to be answered

• What is Open Access?

• Why Open Access?

• How Does the Scientific Communication Process Work Today?

• What Can the SLU Libraries and Researchers Do?

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What is Open Access?

Open Access = –[…] free availability on the public

internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy,

distribute, print, search, or link to full texts of these

articles […]

Open Access is a new way in organizing the distributionof scientific information.

The Berlin Declaration

2003

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• The accessibility

• Shorten the delay between acceptance and publication

• Increased visibility for each article

• Economical savings

Why Open Access?

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• Research is payed with public funds.

• The publishers receive scientific results, editing work etc. for free by the scientists.

• Scientists give away their copyright to the publishers in exchange for publishing and distribution.

• Universities (e.g. libraries) buy their own scientific results back from the commercial publishers.

How Does the Scientific Communication Process Work

Today?

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How much does a scientific journal cost?

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• High journal prices

• Libraries/universities can not afford the journals.

• Limited access to research results to a growing potential audience.

• Internet - the possibilities to publish the full text of a article or report in electronic form.

Background to Open Access

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Open Access - two roads

• Self archiving in a digital archive

A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access archive or repository.

• Publishing in an Open Access journalA researcher can publish articles in an Open Access journal.

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• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

• BioMed Central - Open Access publisher. SLU reaserchers can publish for free.

• PLoS - Public Library of Science, Open Access journals. PLoS Biology

• Epsilon - Electronic Publishing at SLU

Open Access Publishing

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What are the SLU Libraries doing to support Open

Access?

We disseminate the SLU research!

Epsilon

VäxtEko

Publicationdatabase

Information and support inOpen Access and electronic publishing.

Copyrightagreements

Coordination projects national, international

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Epsilon

Libris

Lukas

SLU departmental web sites

Uppsök

Search services on Internet

Electronic publishing in Epsilon

National library system for Sweden

Catalogue of the SLU Libraries

Undergraduate theses in full text

Google, yahoo, OAister, etc.

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What can the SLU reasearchers and students do to support Open Access?

How to publish in Epsilon?

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SLU Libraries website

Epsilon

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http://epsilon.slu.se

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Register/log in to Epsilon

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Web form

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Accept the agreement for e-publishing

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Upload the PDF file

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Check entered data

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Deposit thesis

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When an author has submitted a thesis to the Epsilon publishing system a librarian will edit the entered data before the electronic publishing.

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Published thesis