Presented by Shannon Gordon @ the Health Sciences Library

February 1, 2011

Open access & health research

We’ll explore

1. The basics of OA2. Changing expectations of research

funders3. Journal permissions in a nutshell4. Demystifying PubMed Central Canada5. Local support for authors & researchers

Defining open access (OA)

“Open access is the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediately after publication.” (CARL & SPARC, p.3)

“If an article is ‘Open Access’ it means that it can be freely accessed by anyone in the world using an internet connection.” (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html#whatoa)

Why OA is important

What exists?~ 6000 peer-reviewed titles

600+ Health Sciences OA titles

The numbersThe U.S. publishes the most OA titles:

1100+ Canada is in 7th place with 179

Consider this

If you receive research fundingBe aware of new & changing research

funder policies~ 20 policies in Canada, such as:

CIHR Policy on Access to Research OutputsLaunched Jan 1/08Applies to whole or partial CIHR fundingWithin 6 months of publication, make

research output available via:

A useful toolResearch funders’ open access policies &

requirements

PubMed Central Canada (PMCC)CIHR/CISTI/NRC collaborationExists for CIHR funded research outputDeposited articles are automatically put in

PubMed Central & PubMed Central UKPubMed contains all PubMed Central

articles

Demystifying PMCC

Journal permissions

Where can I archive my articles?Publishing in an OA journal is just one

optionConsider depositing work in an OA

repository1800+ repositories worldwide~ 40 in the Health Sciences

OA support from the library

Be Google-able Deposit pre/post-prints, finished data sets,

conference papers, presentations & reports

Subject specificJoint initiative with the Faculty of MedicineDeposit published output

Library as OA publisher

Summing up

1. OA fundamentals2. Research funders & journal permission

policies 3. PubMed Central Canada has hopefully

been demystified!4. Awareness of local open access support

Questions?

Recommended ReadingsCanadian Association of Research Libraries. (2005). CARL

institutional repository program. Retrieved from http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/institutional _repositories-e.html.

Harnad, S. (February 2010). The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. The Open Citation Project – Reference linking and citation analysis for open archives. Retrieved from http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html.

Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. (2010). Report and recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. Retrieved from http://www.aau.edu/policy/scholarly_publishing_roundtable.aspx?id=6894.

Shearer, K. A review of emerging models in Canadian academic publishing. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/24008.