DIGITAL ARCHIVING &OPEN ACCESS

• What is it? Why do it?• How does it work?• Getting started

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARYMICHELLE HARRISON | FACULTY LIAISON LIBRARIAN

What is it? Why do it?

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Open Access - OA

Open AccessWhat is Open Access?Unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals and other resourcesWhat can Universities do to promote Open Access?• Publish your research articles in Open

Access journals e.g. DOAJ• Deposit your pre-print and post print in

an institutional archive• Consider starting an Open Access

journal in your area of specialization

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Sydney eScholarhip: what is it?

• Research papers• Reports• Conference papers• Poster presentations• Dissertations• eBooks• Handbooks• etc….

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What is it?

› Permanent online storage of scholarly material

› Freely available to anyone in the world

› Highly visible to Google

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Why do it?

› Expand your readership

› Track download activity

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More reasons to do it

› Traditional metrics (e.g. h-index)

› Altmetrics

(tweets/media/policy)

From Sydney eScholarship

Enhance your research impact..

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Help your work really take off

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Tell the world!

How does it work?

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Published material

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Check your publisher contract

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Check OA policy for a journal

Digital archiving & copyright for authors: http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/ses/copyright.php

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Mark references with OA policy

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Not yet published?

› Future use?

› Author addendum

› Don’t sign your rights away!

Getting started

Questions & demonstration