13/03/2013 Presentation about OA at University of Hasselt

1. Open Access
Why you should care.
An introduction.

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3. What does Open Access mean?
• Free (for the end user)
• Digital (online)
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4. What is Open Access?
• Immediately (embargo’s are possible)
• Research (publications, but also datasets)
• With as few restrictions (reuse and copyright)
as possible
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6. Why
• Research payed for by tax payer’s money
should be available to them without extra cost
• Because my research funder obliges me to
make my research available in Open Access
• Colleagues worldwide should have access to
my research, not only those who can pay all
subscription prices
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7. Why
• I want to increase visibility and impact of my
work
• I want my research to be available as soon as
possible
• I disagree with the policies of the big
publishers
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8. Different Ways to make your work OA
Deposit an open
access version of
your work in a
repository Publish directly in an
OA journal
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9. Self-archiving
• Deposit research in OA repository
– Institutional
– Subject (discipline-specific)
• Better than personal, departmental or project
website!
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10. Self-archiving
• Immediate OA or after embargo period
(discipline-specific)
• ‘Free’
• Main focus of mandates
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11. Open Access publishing
• Publish in OA Journal
• All disciplines
• OA has no influence on quality of journal!
• With or without Article Processing Charges/
Author Fees
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12. Open Access publishing
• Hybrid OA:
– traditional journal -> OA Fee -> immediate OA
– your institution still has to pay subscription fees
because not all content is freely accessible …
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13. Open Access publishing
• Young journals -> not always scoring well in
traditional metrics systems – but are catching
up! (PLOS, BioMedCentral, …)
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14. It’s not over …
• Mainstreaming
– More attention
– Also: more discussion!
• Lots of experimenting going on!
– Financing OA journals
– Overlay journals based on repository content
–…
• Altmetrics
• Text and data mining
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16. The European perspective
• European Commission: big research funder
(FP7 – Horizon 2020)
• 2 dedicated commissioners Neelie Kroes and
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
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17. The EC and Open Access
• Why open access ?
– Serving research and innovation (R&I) and improving
return on investment
– Allow the benefits of science to be exploited by all
(researchers, industry, citizens) and give equal access
in all EU27 Member States
– Give free access to results of publicly-funded research
– Drive down the costs for dissemination without
sacrificing quality
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18. The EC and Open Access
• A means to improve knowledge circulation
– Not a goal in itself !
– Not all Member States are the same
• Both 'Green' and 'Gold' open access measures
should be promoted in Horizon 2020, both
should be valid and complementary approaches
(transition period of the market)
• “Open access must be effective, fair, affordable,
competitive and sustainable for researchers and
innovative businesses”
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19. OA Pilot in FP7
• 7 areas (>1300 projects to date)
– 20% of total FP7 budget (2007-2013)
– OpenAIRE portal www.openaire.eu
– Linking of publications with datasets
• 'Best effort' to provide OA
• Peer-reviewed publications
• Allowed embargos: 6/12 months
• Refunding of OA publishing costs
– Eligible while project runs
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20. OA Mandate in Horizon 2020
• No longer a pilot : OA becomes an obligation
• All scientific areas
• Peer-reviewed publications
• Allowed embargos: 6/12 months
• Plus: pilot for research data
• OA publishing costs
– Eligibile while project runs
– plus (tbc): possibility to cover later publications, under
conditions to define
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21. • Infrastructure to implement EC’s OA policy
– Visibility
– Access
– Tools & services
– Linking research output to project information and
data
• www.openaire.eu
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23. OpenAIRE
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24. What do you think?
• Are you making your research OA already?
Why (not)?
• What can be done on university/government
level as incentives
• Would you consider taking part of OA
initiatives such as new journals, training
sessions, …
• How about your research data?
• …
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25. • www.openaccess.be
• info@openaccess.be
• www.openaire.eu
• Twitter @openaccess_be
• Facebook ‘Open Access Belgium’
•  0032 9 264 94 72
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26. References
• Open Access cartoon by Patrick Hochstenbach (@hochstenbach)
• ‘Open Access Explained!’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham, Nick Shockey and
Jonathan Eisen
• ‘Green and Gold’ image by Libby Levi for opensource.com
• ‘Gold vs. Green’ graphic. Björk et al. (2010). "Open Access to the
Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009". PLoS ONE 5 (6): e11273.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
• APC graphic. Corbyn, Zoe. Price doesn't always buy prestige in open
access, Nature 22.01.2013 doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12259
• ‘Nature vs. Science vs. Open Access’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham
• Spichtinger, Daniel Open Access in Horizon 2020 and the European
Research Area
http://www.scienceeurope.org/uploads/GRC/Open%20Access/2_Daniel%
20Spichtinger.pdf
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