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Brave new world: More access, more
impact, more control
Elizabeth Yates, Liaison/Scholarly Communication Librarian
Brock University May 2014
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Your research WILL have a digital life. You have the
opportunity to control that life.
-- Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communications Librarian @ Florida State University
Today’s outcomes
You will recall:-characteristics of new (and old) forms of research dissemination-key facts about your rights as a scholar-strategies for increasing the impact of your research
Publishing then
Publishing now
• Open, online journals
• Digital academic presses
• Online repositories
• Funding agency policies supporting OA
• Greater support for author rights
OA
• Free, immediate online access to scholarly research
• No end-user fees• Usually greater freedom for re-use
Morrison, H. (2014). Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 31, 2013: first open source edition.
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/
Growth of OA publishing
How does it work?
Publishing is not free!
Costs are covered by means such as:• Article processing fees• Advertising• Sponsorship by a scholarly society• Researcher memberships
Finding Open Access sources
Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.org/
-search by subject, country, etc.
Directory of Open Access Books www.doabooks.org/
-search by keywords, author, etc.
BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
http://www.base-search.net/
-retrieves OA academic web sources: more than 60 million documents from more than 3,000 sources (can search by theses)
Other models
• Non-traditional “journals”• Repositories• Open books
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Innovative platforms
Repositories
• Scope:– Subject e.g. arXiv.org– Institutional e.g. Brock’s Digital Repository
> your theses will likely end up in an IR
• Content:– Preprint– Final manuscript– Other versions
OpenDOAR
opendoar.org
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Brock Digital Repository
http://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/1147
• Our students’ work is visible to the world• Indexed in Google Scholar, SuperSearch,
etc.• Statistics for views
Open Access = greater impact
Open Access Citation effect:• Open Access articles are cited
significantly more than non-OA articles
Article downloads:• Open Access articles are downloaded
signficantly more than non-OA articles
VS
Open Access = more rights
Copyright: What is it? Why does it matter?
• a form of intellectual property• takes effect the moment a work is “fixed”
(doesn’t apply to ideas, facts)• applies to all genres – books, periodicals,
charts, software, films, music, works of art• Protects your rights as a creator:– to reproduce, publish, alter, sell, etc. the work– copyright infringement > is unauthorized copying
or use of a work
What can you do?
No. 1 > Read your copyright agreements!
• research your publication options• negotiate more copy-rights• use Creative Commons licensing --
creativecommons.org• publish with an Open Access platform
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Summing up
• Research is being shared more openly via OA journals, books, etc.
• Researchers can benefit from OA via greater impact, more control over your work
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