1. OPEN ACCESS WEEK
19 – 25 October 2015
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Open Access
General Overview and Q&A
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Session outline
- What is “Open Access”?
- Gold OA, Green OA, Examples
- Durham Open Access Policy
- Durham Academic Progression policy, REF OA policy
- Help and Contacts
- OA mandates, identifying your options, DRO
- Accessing Open Access content
- Google Scholar, ROAR, Open Access Button
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“Open Access is the free, immediate,
online access to research… [and] the
right to use these articles fully in the
digital environment”
http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access
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Impact Factor = 9.105
- 21st of 290 in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- 4th of 46 in Evolutionary Biology
- 10th of 167 in Genetics & Hereditary
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Green OA
Author can opt to make
his/her final peer-
reviewed manuscript
free to access from an
OA repository (following
publisher imposed 12
month embargo)
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- 21st of 290 in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- 1st Cell [Elsevier/Cell Press]
- allows Green OA [12 month embargo]
- provides Gold OA options [$5,000]
- 4th of 46 in Evolutionary Biology
- 1st Trends in Ecology and Evolution [Elsevier/Trends]
- allows Green OA [12 month embargo]
- provides Gold OA options [$3,600]
- 10th of 167 in Genetics & Hereditary
- 1st Trends in Ecology and Evolution [Nature]
- allows Green OA [6 month embargo]
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Durham OA Policy
- Basic requirement -
- Deposit AAM in a repository (Durham)*
- Deposit AAM in a repository (REF)**
- When to take action?
- Within 3 months of acceptance (Durham)
- Within 3 months of acceptance (REF)
* Required even if you have ‘gone gold’
** Strongly recommended, even if you have ‘gone gold’
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Help and Contacts
Session title Date Time Location
What is open access? General
overview and Q&A
Monday 19th October 3-4pm Bill Bryson Library, Elvet Room
(Level 4)
RCUK's Open Access Policy: how
does it affect you?
Tuesday 20th October 3-4pm Bill Bryson Library, Elvet Room
(Level 4)
How to deposit in Durham
Research Online (DRO): the
University's Open Access
Repository
Wednesday 21st October 12-1pm Bill Bryson Library, Elvet Room
(Level 4)
What is open access? General
overview and Q&A
Wednesday 21st October 10-11am Queen's Campus Library, D222
Funder open access policies: how
do they affect you?
Wednesday 21st October 3-4pm Queen's Campus Library, D222
ORCiD: Introduction and chance
to register
Friday 23rd October 1-2pm Bill Bryson Library, Shincliffe
Room (Level 4)
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Help and Contacts
OA week drop-in sessions
• October 19 - 12pm-2pm, Palatine Centre, Science Site
(Room PC005)
• October 21 - 12pm-2pm, The Wolfson Building,
Queen's Campus (The Street)
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Help and Contacts
- Identifying OA Mandates
- Sherpa JULIET (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/)
- Durham Research Online (ext 41586)
- Heather Ewington / Elena Kharlamova (dro.admin@durham.ac.uk)
- Open Access Publications Officers (ext 41586)
- Dr Freddie Foulds/Sarah Hyland (openaccess.publishing@durham.ac.uk)
- Liaison Librarian (ext 42961)
- James Bisset (james.bisset@durham.ac.uk)
Hinweis der Redaktion
Most of us in academia get very used to instant access to published research at our finger tips… even when not immediate, we can often request our library gets content for us through document delivery or inter-library loan services at discounted or waived fee-rates.
This is NOT open access (and a somewhat ironic example)
Elsevier: Major publisher, regularly posting operating profit margins of c.40%. But they do get (in my opinion) somewhat unfairly treated in comparison to other major commercial publishers: - Average APCs are cheaper than for example Wiley - When you pay to view a pdf of an article, you keep it. Others, eg Oxford University Press, you pay to view the article for a single day.
NOTE: Elsevier came under quite a bit of flack (which they really should have expected – charging people for the opportunity to read their view on open access publishing did not go down well) for this, and have now made this open access.
KEY POINT: The article is only a few paragraph’s long. Anyone locating it behind a paywall has no information to make a judgment as to whether the article will be useful to them, and if it is worth paying the subscription or $42 access fee to view.
Has anyone heard of gold/green open access?
Anyone want to define either?
This is the key definition…
People often equate Gold with ‘paying for open access’, but this is not always the case (some of the highest JIF ranking journals in paleontology do not charge for gold open access and offer different business models to fund publication).
Emphasise the act of having deposited is a requirement of Durham APC
If any questions about if REF will go ahead:-
The REF review has been delayed until after the Comprehenseive Spending Review, so everything is up in the air…
.. But, the OA policy for REF is published, with a timeframe and requirements publicised.
So it would be foolish (and not considered a valid excuse by HEFCE) to ignore policy requirements and wait to implement when most of the infratsructure and processes are already there.
AAM – Author’s accepted manuscript
“within 3 months of acceptance”
In July 2015, HEFCE allowed a 12 month grace period (to 1st April 2017) to allow deposit within 3 months of publication, not acceptance. The advice is still to aim for the 3 months of acceptance - (i) keeps message simple - (ii) avoids complications in modelling the final submission for institutions/departments (being able to more clearly identify publications which have met the OA requirements)
- (iii) still strongly recommended by HEFCE to implement before 2017.
Handouts available in session
Handouts available in session
Handouts available in session
Handouts available in session
Google Scholar – screenshot on next slide showing
OpenDOAR vs ROAR - offer a similar custom google search across repository content. Not a guarantee located items will be OA (may be metadata only or embargoed)