Open Access

Ghent University Libraryy y
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Open Access
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh -
UGent
Training School ‘Architectural History
Research in the Digital Era’
A il 3 2013April 3, 2013

Why publish?
Open Access - Inge Van
Nieuwerburgh - Ghent 3 April, 2013

Why publish?
Gain funding
Financial reward
Advance career
Personal prestige
Communicate results to peers
Advance career
0 20 40 60 80 100
% respondents
source: Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltdsource: Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd,
15 May 2006 OA workshop Brussels

 Choice of publisher / journal titlep j
is important
 Discipline-specific? Discipline specific?
 Impact (WOS)
L l / i i l bli Local / international public
 Recognition?
 Rewarding?

Research evaluation & analytical
t ltools
 Web of Science
 Journal citation reports (JCR):
impact factorimpact factor
 Scopus

Functions of scientific publication
Source: Herbert Van de Sompel, “Open Archives voor onderzoek”
Gent 22 Oct 2002Gent, 22 Oct. 2002

Journal
 Combines these functions
 But classical system toll access =>
barriers => poor accessbarriers => poor access

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Thecla Ettema – Bootsma,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biblioteekje/4029201658/,
(CC BY NC SA)(CC BY-NC-SA)

Open Access: what is it?
 Worldwide electronic
dissemination
 Of peer reviewed research results Of peer-reviewed research results
(publications or data)
 Free to use, free of restrictions
(still refering to source!)(st e e g to sou ce )

Open Access: why?
 Speed up and enhance the accessibility
of an articleof an article
 Enhance its visibility
h ld d Enhance its worldwide impact
 Discovery / novel research
 Better assessment, better monitoring,
better management of researchbetter management of research
> innovation prestige funding=> innovation, prestige, funding

Open Access to publications: how to
do it?
 “self archiving”: The scientist
hi bli ti i larchives a publication in an openly
available repository. This is also known
as “green road to open access”as green road to open access .
 Publish in an Open Access Journal, a
freely available electronic journal Thisfreely available electronic journal. This
is also known as “gold road to open
access”.access .

GreenGreen
RoadRoad

UGent Institutional repository
http://biblio UGent behttp://biblio.UGent.be

OA mandate UGent
 Immediate deposit / optional Open
Access
 Of author’s final, peer-reviewed version
(publisher version is allowed)(publisher version is allowed)
 Articles, books, chapters, conference
proceedingsproceedings
 The latest upon publication
 As of publication year 2010

But also
 QUTQ
 Wellcome Trust
NHS NHS
 EC FP7 Open Access pilotp p
H i 2020 … Horizon2020

OA Pilot in FP7
 7 areas (>1300 projects to date)
20% f t t l FP7 b d t (2007 2013) 20% of total FP7 budget (2007-2013)
 OpenAIRE portal www.openaire.eu
 Linking of publications with datasets Linking of publications with datasets
 'Best effort' to provide OA
Peer reviewed publications Peer-reviewed publications
 Allowed embargos: 6/12 months
R f di f OA bli hi t Refunding of OA publishing costs
 Eligible while project runs

OA Mandate in Horizon 2020
 No longer a pilot : OA becomes an
obligationobligation
 All scientific areas
 Peer-reviewed publications Peer reviewed publications
 Allowed embargos: 6/12 months
 Plus: pilot for research dataPlus: pilot for research data
 OA publishing costs
 Eligibile while project runsg p j
 plus (tbc): possibility to cover later
publications, under conditions to define

 Infrastructure to implement EC’s OA
policypolicy
 Visibility
 Access
 Tools & services
 Linking research output to project
information and datainformation and data
 www.openaire.eu

OpenAIRE

Some big subject repositories
 PMC Open Access Subsetp
 Europe PMC
Xi arXiv
 SSRN

Find
 Google Scholar:g
http://scholar.google.com
 OAIster: OAIster:
http://oaister.worldcat.org/
 Driver:
http://search.driver.research-ttp //sea c d e esea c
infrastructures.eu/ (merge with
http://openaire eu spring 2013)http://openaire.eu spring 2013)

 No subscription costp
 No influence on quality of journal!
With ith t A ti l P i With or without Article Processing
Charges/ Author Fees

Open Access Journal
 Some OAJ publishers:p
 PLoS
 BiomedCentral BiomedCentral
 Copernicus
 Open Humanities Press

OAJ Directories
 DOAJ: http://www.doaj.orgp j g
 8622 OA journals
 http://jurn org/: A curated http://jurn.org/: A curated
academic search-engine, indexing
4 484 f j l i h &4,484 free ejournals in the arts &
humanities.

integreer
http://www.eigenfactor.org/openacces

Other models
 Overlay journalsy j
 Hybrid journals
 “a large, peer-reviewed repository
of research articles”of research articles

Open Access Books
 OAPEN
 Open Humanities Press

What can you do?
 Submit the article to a journal ofj
your choice
 Make the necessary changes after Make the necessary changes after
peer review
 Submit final version to the journal
 Deposit the same final version in Deposit the same final version in
your local or subject repository

NOT (only)( y)
personal, departmental or project
website!website!

CHANGE

“The traditional system of scholarlyy y
communication simply does not
work, and it is time for stakeholderswork, and it is time for stakeholders
to aim to radically change the
system of scholarly communication”system of scholarly communication
Lars Björnshauge @ Berlin10 Open Access conference

Game changers
 E.g. PLoSONE changing theg g g
landscape – other publishers are
following.following.
 Big funders are launching their
j l Lif !own journals – eLife!
 PeerJ - https://peerj.com/ee J ttps //pee j co /

 Traditional peer review is challenged!
 PeerEvaluation - http://www.peerevaluation.org/
P f S i Peerage of Science -
http://www.peerageofscience.org/
 Altmetrics:Altmetrics:
 http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
 http://readermeter.org/
 http://impactstory.org/

 Innovative Open Access publishing
initiatives need library support:
 Open Editions – http://www.openedition.org/
 Knowledge Unlatched -
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/
 Social Science Directory -Social Science Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com
 Humanities Directory – to follow shortly

Open data and beyondOpen data and beyond

 Share and re-use
 Raw dataRaw data
 Processes / workflows
Cit Cite
 Eg DataCite: helps researchers to
find, access, and reuse data
 LinkLink
 Eg. OpenAIRE: link OA publications
to datasetsto datasets
=> Enhance quality, co-operation,
innovation Open Access - Inge Van

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