Why (and How to) Publish Open Access

Elin H. Frøshaug, University of Oslo Library, Digital Services

SUM Research School 28.08.2013

What is Open Access?

Immediate, free and

unrestricted online

access to digital

scholarly material.

Why Open Access (1)

• Increases the visibility, readership and impact of your work

• Enhances interdisciplinary research • Accelerates the pace of research, discovery

and innovation• Copyright to your own work

Why Open Access (2)

• Publicly funded research should be publicly available

• The funder’s policies – EU– Norwegian Research Council

• The University of Oslo’s policy

How, the golden road

• Publish in an Open Access journal• No barriers, available freely on internet• Peer reviewed• Keep copyright• Article processing fee• Publication fund, grants

How, the hybrid road

• Publish in a subscripten journal• Fee in order to make article Open Access• Keep copyright, usually

How, the green road

• Self-archiving • Institutional or subject based archive• DUO• CRIStin• Usually post-print version

Find out more

• UiO’s web pageshttp://www.uio.no/english/for-employees/support/research/open-access/

• SPARC http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access

• OpCit projecthttp://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

• Phd on Trackhttp://www.phdontrack.net/