ICT Role in 21st Century Education & its Challenges.pptx
Open access information session 2013
1. Open Access:
Maximize the Impact
of your Research
Allison Bell, Sarah Forbes, Pam King, Gail Nichol
University of Toronto Libraries
2. What is Open Access?
Simple Definition:
Open-access (OA) literature is digital,
online, free of charge, and free of
most copyright and licensing
restrictions
(from http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/01/a-simple-
definition-for-open-access_8.html)
3. What is Open Access?
Full Definition:
“… 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. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution,
and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to
give authors control over the integrity of their work and the
right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
From: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/boai-10-
recommendations
4. Why is OA important?
• Ensures access to all
researchers, rather than what they (or
their school) can afford
• Enhances interdisciplinary research
• Can increase the visibility, readership
and impact of author’s works
• Public funding = public access to results
From: http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/why-oa.shtml
5. Growth of Open Access
From: “The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009”
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
6. Open Access in the News
Setting the stage for Major research council
the next decade of opts for open access
open access. policy.
Toronto Star, 9/16,12 University World News, 1/10/13
Journal Archive Opens Open-Access of U.K.-
Up (Some). Funded Science Papers
Inside Higher Ed, 1/9/13 Will Start in 2013.
Nature News Blog, 7/16/12
The inexorable rise of Open access publishing
open access scientific way to bridge the
publishing. knowledge gap in
theguardian, 10/22/12 higher education.
Business Daily, 1/8/13. Nairobi.
7. Gold & Green
• Gold OA - the publisher makes the
final published article freely available
(BMJ, PLoS)
• Green OA – author deposits a copy
of publication in a open electronic
archive (T-space, arXiv)
More information: http://svpow.com/2012/11/16/tutorial-
19b-open-access-definitions-and-clarifications-part-2-gold-
and-green
9. EU and UK – OA progress
• Horizon 2020, the EU's Research & Innovation
funding programme for 2014-2020
• UK Finch Report: “Removing paywalls that
surround taxpayer funded research will have real
economic and social benefits. It will allow
academics and businesses to develop and
commercialise their research more easily and
herald a new era of academic discovery.”
10. Funding Agency Mandates
• Sherpa Juliet: www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
• NIH Public Access Policy
• CIHR Policy on Access to Research
Outputs
• SSHRC Policy on Open Access
• NSERC Use of Grant Funds
13. SHERPA RoMEO
• Browse or search journal titles to
determine the degree of openness
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
14. OA books
• DOAB (Directory of Open Access
Books) approx. 1215 Academic peer-
reviewed books from 33 publishers
http://www.doabooks.org/
• OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in
European Networks) Library lists 900+
books. http://www.oapen.org/home
15. Author rights
• Traditional publishing agreements
often require that authors grant
exclusive rights to the publisher
• SPARC Author Addendum enables
authors to retain rights:
http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/author_rights
• Canadian Association of Research
Libraries, carl-abrc.ca
16. More on Author rights
See:
http://guides.library.utoronto.ca
/author_rights
17. UTL Initiatives
• Open Access Author Fund Pilot
• Open Access Week (Oct 21-27,
2013)
• Focus on Research
• T-Space
• Journal Production Services (JPS)
• Open Conference Services (OCS)
18. For Help or Information
on Open Access:
Contact your subject librarian
http://resource.library.utoronto.ca/liaison
19. Thank you!
• Scholarly Communication Guide:
http://uoft.me/scholcomm
• Open Access Week at U of T:
http://uoft.me/oaweek
Hinweis der Redaktion
Definition from Heather Morrison who just completed a PhD at Simon Fraser on the topic “Freedom for scholarship in the internet age”.
In 2002 the Budapest Open Access Initiative launched a worldwide campaign for open access (OA) to all new peer-reviewed research. The BOAI was the first initiative to use the term “open access”, the first to articulate a public definition, the first to propose complementary strategies for realizing OA, the first to generalize the call for OA to all disciplines and countries, and the first to be accompanied by significant funding.
The two are complementary strategies, “Gold” does not mean “higher quality” or “more open.”Gold is the ‘easiest’ way for faculty to make sure their research is open access, as they do not have to take the extra step of putting their work into a repository. Gold may also have a cost associated (for instance, ACS charges $3000 for Open Access publishing, but this can be covered by grants or author funds (I’ll discuss further later)In July 2012 “the Finch report” recommended a clear policy direction in the UK towards support for ‘Gold’ open access publishing, where publishers receive their revenues from authors rather than readers, so research articles become freely accessible to everyone immediately upon publication.
1.European Commission (EU) will make open access to scientific publications a general principle of their Horizon 2020 programmeFrom: Scientific data: open access to research results will boost Europe's innovation capacity http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/790Government to open up publicly funded research. BIS. 16/07/12 http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2012/Jul/government-to-open-up-publicly-funded-research
-NIH policy requiresOpen Access in 12 mos-Canadian Institutes of Health Research: effective Jan 1, 2013. Must be available in OA in 12 mos. Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed -In 2011, application forms for new funding opportunities under SSHRC’s Insight and Connection programs introduced a module on knowledge mobilization, encouraging applicants to adopt open access approaches to research dissemination to the extent possible. Under the Connection program, particular importance will be given to proposals that include plans for open access and open source approaches to knowledge mobilization.-NSERC grants will cover costs associated with ensuring open access to the findings (e.g., costs of publishing in an open access journal or making a journal article open access).
