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Open Access Publishing

+Objectives

What Open Access (OA)is

Different types of OA OA Journals/Hybrid

Journals Institutional

Repositories Where you can find

OA publications

What does it cost? Who pays?

Benefits

Funders position on OA

How to choose a publication

Keeping copyright

+Current situation

Research is publicly funded Personal researchers’ efforts Supported by institutional infrastructure

Authors sign away rights in order to publish Given away freely to publishers Publishers make huge profits selling material back

Author gets no tangible reward And loses rights to copy material for colleagues, teaching

etc… Institution potentially loses out on its investment

Economic barriers decrease readership Journals increase in price as purchasing budgets go down

"With annual journal price inflation running at double the rate of RPI since 2000, it has distorted the acquisition policies of libraries, with an ever-increasing proportion of budgets being spent on electronic big deals. This leads to diminishing funds for monographs, textbooks, and journals from smaller publishers, which cannot but damage scholarship and teaching in UKHE.“

Phil Sykes, Chair of RLUK and Librarian at Liverpool University, 2010

+Serials Crisis

Average price rise between 2000 -2004 up to 50%

Last 5 years

Cambridge University Press – median price rise 26.5%

Sage – median price rise 93.5%

Elsevier – median price rise 36%

Elsevier have the highest priced journals

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of  charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”

Peter Suber

“Open access encourages a wider use of information assets and increases citations”

Bill Hubbard, 2005

“By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”

Budapest Open Access Initiative 2001

+2 Types of Open Access

 Green OA 

Self Archiving - to archive an article on:

A personal Web site

Blog

University Web page

Institutional Repository (IR) or Subject Repository

 Gold OA

Open Access Journals

Journal makes them publicly accessible to all

Hybrid Journal – some articles open access

+Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ http://www.doaj.org/

International

6508 Journals

509 UK

568464 articles

164 Public Health

441 Medicine

114 Sociology

56 Epidemiology

104 Anthropology

+Gold OA / Paid Open Access

Free for users to access

Articles are made Open Access on payment of a fee

Publication process fee/author pays fee

Fee can be waived or reduced

Price varies but upwards of £1,500 sometimes a lot more

The publisher’s PDF

+Hybrid Journals

Not all the articles are OA

Only OA if author chooses payment option

Various names: sponsorship, author pays, unlocked, open

Becoming more widespread

Fees upwards of £2000 but sometimes a lot more

Help to comply with Funder requirements for OA

Will deposit in UKPMC/PMC

+Who pays?

You do! or rather your Funders

Must include in your grant application a request for open access publishing!

Roughly £2000

Funders will not pay for colour pages

LSHTM does not have separate funds!! Most institutions don’t!

+Green OA

Self Archiving

Institutional Repositories/Subject Repositories

180 UK, 2,000 Worldwide

Open to all

Full text or metadata

Author’s manuscript

Embargos

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SCENARIOS

+Why Institutional Repositories

Wider dissemination

Greater citations

Higher Google rankings

Long term availability/preservation

Continued format accessibility

Accessible to all

Control over your research

Produce CV’s, profiles

Funder compliance

LSHTM Repository in new academic year

+What do they contain?

Articles

Conference papers

Conference proceedings

Theses

Book chapters/Books

Datasets

Audio/video

+Why OA?

Increase global readership

Greater citations – essential for research career

Faster and open exchange of ideas, benefits research and society

Allows those in low and middle income countries to access research and contribute to research

Better chance of long term preservation

Dissemination of funded research, government and funders

Increases ease for journalists and bloggers to link to articles

Allows people/teachers/ librarians to make copies

Can build upon research

Helps to tackle rising journal prices for libraries and institutions

+Funders

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) – OA within 6 months

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – OA within 6 months

Medical Research Council (MRC) – OA within 6 months

Wellcome Trust – OA within 6 months

Cancer Research – OA within 6 months

International Development Research Centre – OA in their archive at earliest opportunity

National Institutes of Health NIH – OA within 12 months

+Choosing a publication

In application for funding include amount for OA publishing! At least £2000

Check what funder requires – subject repository? Institutional repository? time

Check journals position on OA – using Sherpa Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Ideally an OA journal (DOAJ)

If not choose a journal with an OA option

Tick OA option

Send invoice to funder, OA officer

If in doubt contact Library

+License to publish

Retain your COPYRIGHT!!!

Give publishers a license to publish

SPARC addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml

Allows publishers to publish and reap rewards allows you to decide how you want to distribute your article in a non commercial way

If in doubt contact Library!

+OA Tips

Keep and save electronic copies of your publications Early versions as well as final

DO read and submit to Open Access journals

DO use the SHERPA Websites

DO contact the Library/Repository

DO keep your copyright!

+OA Survey

Unlocking attitudes to Open Access

National Survey until 30th June

https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/openaccess

Library blog http://lshtmlib.blogspot.com/

+Contact

Andrew Gray

Room 169a in Library, Monday to Wednesday

andrew.gray@lshtm.ac.uk

020 7598 8193

+Links

Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

UK Pub Med (UKPMC) http://ukpmc.ac.uk/

Research Councils UK http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/

Sherpa Juliet http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

Sherpa Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

OpenDoar http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

Library Open Access pages http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/libraryinfo/openaccessbackground.html

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