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From Louise Skelding’s panel discussion on Open Access and HSS research on Wednesday, October 24 at the University of Dundee.
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Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Louise Skelding
Senior Publishing Editor, SAGE
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What is Open Access?
● Green;
● Delayed Open Access;
● Gold;
● Gratis or Libre?;
● Licences: CC-BY-WTF?
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Open Access movement
● Rapid growth of the internet and internet access;
● Print journals are becoming obsolete;
● Internet provides new ways of communicating research (and not just through peer-reviewed publication);
● Rising cost of journals;
● Tax payers should be able to access results of government-funded research.
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Moving faster toward OA
● “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist.” (August 2011);
● Cost of Knowledge (January 2012);
● Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (June 2012);
● Announcements from RCUK, HEFCE, European Commission (July 2012).
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RCUK● Accessibility to publicly-funded research;
Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable.
● Rigorous quality assurance;Published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through effective peer review mechanisms.
● Efficient and cost-effective access mechanisms;
● Long-term preservation and accessibility of outputs.
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RCUK compliance
● Gold with CC-BYOr if the publisher will not offer Gold CC-BY then they must offer:
● Green (at least post print) with a maximum embargo period of 12 months (6 for STM journals), and CC-BY-NC.
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Challenges
For institutions and libraries
● Who will administer OA grants?;
● What about non-UK based journals?
For authors and journals
● A lot of research undertaken in HSS doesn’t come with funding grants;
● Will author-pays OA curtail academic freedom?;
● What about independent researchers and those from poorer institutions?
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Pure Open Access journals in HSS
Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org
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But beware!
“Potential, possible or probable predatory OA publishers”: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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Hybrid Open Access
● Gold open access within a traditional subscription-based journal e.g.
SAGE Choice; Wiley OnlineOpen; Springer Open Choice; Taylor & Francis Open Select;
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The future? (I)
What about current model is worth preserving?
• Revenue – few journals operate entirely on subs cash; few would exist without it;
• Publishers undertake digital preservation;
• Neutral in regards to disciplines/funding levels, funders and universities;
• Ordering through pre-publication sifting and journal branding, backed up by hosting/search infrastructure;
• Day to day work and investment in publishing technologies done by third party, not academics or university;
• No barriers to entry for authors.
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The future (II)
Alternatives
• New university presses?
• Self-organisation (Open Journals Systems)
• Super-repositories (publish then sift – places burden on reader)
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The future (III)
● Way forward:
• Depends on collective action; HSS needs to develop position and voice
• Greater engagement from key UK players – note STM focus of RCUK, government
• Integrate with international developments – what happens in EU, US, etc
• All parties likely to undergo change:• Societies weaned off journal revenue• Leaner publishers (service providers)• Journals will die/new OA journals will start up• Lengthy transition likely for HSS
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That’s all folks!
Email any tricky questions to:
Louise Skelding