A ROUND-UP OF OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN ACCESS WEEK KARINE BARKER RADCLIFFE SCIENCE LIBRARY

Oliver Bridle RSL

Amanda Burls Primary Care

Ruth Birth Law Library

Sally Rumsey Bodleian

Bodley’s “Republic of [Open] Letters” W. Horstmann, A. Ptak-Danchak, N. Jefferies, S. Rumsey

DEFINITION OPEN ACCESS 2001

From the BOAI declaration 2002

“kind of free and unrestricted online we call open access - economically feasible -extraordinary power(for reader)to find and make use of relevantLiterature - it gives authors and their works vast andmeasurable new visibility, readership, and impact. -we call on all interested institutions and individuals to helpopen up access to the rest of this literature and remove thebarriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. “

BOAI Declaration 2002

DEFINITION OPEN ACCESS 2012

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. .. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. .. OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.

Peter Suber http://www.openaccessweek.org 2012

OPEN ACCESS 2001-2012 KEY FACTS

2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative earlier movement - Free access to case laws & legislation since 1992

Global movement across all subjects Increase number of OA journals and OA repositories 2012 Finch Report £10 m from UK Government for OA to publicly funded

research Charge for publishing met by researchers’ grants

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE AUTHOR?

Is it open access ? How open is it? What’s my research grant dictate? Is there enough money in my grant to

publish my work?

HOW OPEN IS IT?

What’s the publisher’s OA policy?Gold OA, Green OA, Hybrid JournalsArticle Processing Charges APC, CC-BY Licence,CC-BY NC Licence

WHAT’S THE PUBLISHER’S OA POLICY?

Gold OAGreen OA

Hybrid JournalsAPC

CC-BY LicenceCC-BY NC Licence

Distribution

Immediate

6 months Delay

Author Copyrights

Full retentionSome or none

Copyright Permissions

CC-BY LicenceCC-BY NC Licence

Self-Archiving

Version

Any version

Final peer-reviewed manuscript

repository

who

When

Where

Cost

APCGreen /hybrid

OA journals

Machine Readability policy

36%41%

23%

TRUEFALSEDON'T KNOW

Y Generation JISC Report Oliver Bridle

Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work.

Ethical Aspects of Open Access in HealthResearch Amanda Burls

Access to Knowledge

Probiotic Yoghurt Trial completed 2005Access to the results January 2010Inconclusive results – Bias in publishing negative results

SELF-ARCHIVING - WWW.OPENDOAR.ORG/•Theses, reports, final peer-reviewed version• DOI in record with link to publisher’s version •Connected to Symplectic

Creation of a Databank at Oxford in partnership with Bodleian Libraries - information sharing through system interconnectivity, DOIs assignments, connection between Author’ IDs

TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Compliance with the grant’s OA policySHERPA JULIET – research funding policieshttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.phpPublisher’s website

Requirement for publishing in O/A journals SHERPA ROMEO - publishers’ policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org

How Open Is it? Guidehttp://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/

THE WELLCOME TRUST

“The bottom line is very simple: we want the science we fund to have the maximum impact, and it can only have the maximum impact if it has the maximum distribution. It’s as simple as that … Using the internet, we can actually make scientific research accessible – or available at any rate – to anyone who has an internet connection.”

Sir Mark Walport Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government 2012

DOES OPEN ACCESS PAYMENT THROUGH THE AUTHOR’S RESEARCH GRANT PROVIDE QUICK AND CHEAPER ACCESS?

A few points of discussion: Authors’ choice -Funder’s Open Access policies enforcementCost of Gold route - 1 publication route for all journalsSocieties’ publicationsManaging publication within research fundingRole of department/university in payment processing & covering fees for non funded researchersLibraries’ journal subscription budgetThe debate continues…

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