Post on 08-Sep-2020
HRB Open Research
DIT Early Careers Research Funding Meeting 17 October 2018 Aileen Sheehy
Academic publishers Elsevier
SpringerLink SAGE
Taylor & Francis Wiley
Not open access Journal subscriptions
Open Access
Green
Gold
Problems with current model
Lengthy currently estimated between 150-250 days on average.
Expensive For example, Elsevier had profit of £913m in 2017
Not open Editor decision, journal scope
Not transparent Anonymous peer review
Not inclusive Articles, rarely confirmatory findings or null reports
Nowhere for other outputs
Tied to ‘flawed’ metrics Journal impact factor, eigenfactor
subs
APCs
Dissemination Salary Equipment Overheads
Publishing fees
Academic publishers
Institution library
Journal subscriptions
HRB National Drugs Library subscriptions
1
4
Running costs
3
2 Reviewers 5
subs
APCs
Pay to make OA
Pay to publish
Pay to read
Pay to analyse
Pay to review
“Movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all level of an inquiring society, amateur or professional.”
Collaborative transparent and accessible
WHY?
Improve transparency and validity of research and public ownership of science that is largely publicly funded
Members of the public and research community are calling out for a change
Open Science and Open Scholarship
HRB Open Research To improve the way research is communicated by enabling researchers to publish in an open and accessible way
Powered by F1000: Wellcome Open Research, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, African Academy of Sciences, UCL Child Health, MRC Animal Use
Indexed in major bibliometric databases
Included on Google Scholar and visible online
Submission to HRB Open Research is open to all HRB-grantholders or people working on a HRB funded/co-funded grant on or since 1 January 2017.
Including work that is not directly funded by the HRB – “researcher” focused model
• Fast: Immediate publication means new findings can be shared without any delay.
• Value: The costs of publishing are covered by the HRB. • Compliant: Fulfils HRB’s mandatory Open Access Policy. • Inclusive: Supports publication of a wide range of outputs – from
standard research papers to data sets, from new insights and findings whether confirmatory or negative.
• Transparent: Peer reviewer reports are published alongside the research, supporting recognition of reviewers as well as improving transparency.
• Reproducible: The inclusion of supporting data facilitates reanalysis, replication and reuse and thus improves reproducibility of research.
• Impact-focused: The use of research indicators that allow authors and users to gauge the interest, reach, access and use of their research outputs.
Why should you publish in HRB Open Research?
**NEW** HRB Open Research Registered Reports
Review of • Intro • Method • Proposed analyses
Review of • Intro • Methods • Results • Discussion
Thank you for listening
asheehy@hrb.ie