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THE BENEFITS OF OA Increased visibility of research & researchers. Impact: OA research found and cited more frequently. Research lifecycle can be accelerated: published, read, cited, built on. Facilitating collaboration & sharing. Tool for the University to raise awareness of research profile. Public good: sharing scholarship and intellectual wealth.
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OPEN ACCESS: AN INTRODUCTIONOpen Access & Data Curation Team
WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS?
International movement to open up access to research knowledge.
Publicly-funded research should be openly and freely available to all.
No restrictions on access or use. Increasingly required by funders and academic
bodies.
THE BENEFITS OF OA Increased visibility of research & researchers. Impact: OA research found and cited more
frequently. Research lifecycle can be accelerated: published,
read, cited, built on. Facilitating collaboration & sharing. Tool for the University to raise awareness of
research profile. Public good: sharing scholarship and intellectual
wealth.
HOW DOES OA WORK?
Put a copy of your research paper in a repository (the Green route – free to the researcher).
Pay a publisher a fee to make your paper OA ( the Gold route – c. £1,300 average).
Publish in a free OA journal.
Your choice Green and Gold are equally valid. SHERPA/RoMEO: information on publisher OA
policies. DOAJ: a directory of free OA journals.
RCUK from 1 April 2013 – all papers submitted for publication must be OA within 6 months (12 months for AHRC & ESRC).
Wellcome/NIHR – published papers must be available on OA within 6 months and deposited in UKPMC.
UoE policy from early 2013. Most other funders currently ‘encourage’ or ‘support’
OA - expect future mandates.
FUNDER POSITION ON OA
WHAT TYPES OF RESEARCH ARE AFFECTED?
RCUK: peer-reviewed journal articles & published conference papers.
Wellcome: peer-reviewed journal articles.
Not Monographs, book chapters, etc.
Data: many funders require deposit on OA where possible. Again, wise to expect future mandates.RCUK: You will need to state where and how data can be accessed.
HOW TO COMPLY WITH FUNDER POLICY: 1
Put a copy of your paper in the UoE or other repository (may need to be a post-print – NB always keep your own peer-reviewed copy).
Deposit via Symplectic – in return you get a permanent link to the full text.
Wellcome-funded researchers must put a copy in UKPMC within six months.
Publish in a free Open Access journal: DOAJ
NB – repository deposit is not a means of publishing, it is a means of being OA compliant.
HOW TO COMPLY WITH FUNDER POLICY: 2
Many publishers operate a paid (Gold) OA scheme – your paper is made openly and freely available on payment of a fee. Check in advance that the journal in question has
a paid OA option (use SHERPA/RoMEO). If your chosen journal does not, you may be able
to negotiate a one-off payment or a more lenient copyright agreement (this does sometimes work).
Can you choose an alternative journal with a more moderate OA policy allowing Green OA?
HOW WILL THE COSTS OF GOLD OA BE MET?
UoE will receive a block grant from RCUK – precise amount as yet unknown.
UoE has £131k from the Government via BIS (to be spent by April 2013).
UoE has £65k from Wellcome now. UoE has a prepay BioMed Central subscription.
Any other suggestions...? PloS? Royal Society?NB - You can no longer factor the costs of OA publishing into Wellcome funding bids and, from April 2013, RCUK funding bids.
COMPLIANCE & WHERE TO GET HELP
Funders do check institutional compliance but will always give you the chance to look into OA options before taking action. The choice of where to publish is an academic decision. We will help researchers to navigate publisher policy and
support academic choice. We will help researchers to publish via the Gold route
subject to funds. We will help researchers to deposit research in a
repository via the Green route. We will come and talk to you, your group or department.
Ask: [email protected]
CONTACTS & FURTHER INFORMATION Jill Evans, Open Access Manager: [email protected] Gareth Cole, Data Curation Officer: [email protected] Hannah Lloyd-Jones, Advocacy and Governance Officer
Or any of the above on: [email protected]
Further information: Open Access web site
http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/resources/openaccess/ FAQs:
http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/resources/openaccess/whatisopenaccess/openaccessfaqs/
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