Open Access by Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer

Open Access

Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer

Library of the University of Amsterdam

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Definition

Digital content Free of charge Without restriction

Copy, distribute, print or search

Funding models that do not charge readers or their institutions for access

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Access to books:no or limited preview

S. Prechal, L. Senden, B. Roermund, T. Vandamme Experiences from professional practice: some steps towards empirical research

In: The coherence of EU law: the search for unity in divergent concepts, editors S. Prechal, B. Van Roermund (Oxford University)


Visibility and accessibility

To enlarge the international visibility and accessibility to scientific output

To optimize the use of the scientific output

Removes price barriers.


The Golden Road

The publishers’ pdf is freely available for all in the world


The Golden road

Directory of (peer reviewed) Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org

Hybrid journalIf you pay the publisher your individual article will be freely available while other articles in the same issue can require subscription for access

http://www.doaj.org/


The Green Road

Self-archiving’: The author publishes in a repository his/her latest version of the article which he/she has sent to the publisher for official publication.


Romeo Sherpa


Full OA can only be provided by waiving some of the rights

Creative commons licence

Most open is CC-BY

CC-BY waives all rights except the right of attribution


OA advantage: more visible, more cited!

Gunter Eysenbach, The open access advantage, J Med Internet Res. 2006 Apr–Jun; 8(2): e8. DOI:10.2196/jmir.8.2.e8.


Early access advantage

Source: E.A. Henneken et al. Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics, J.Electron.Publishing 9 (2006)


What can financers do?

Infrastructure DARE, Narcis, Google sitemaps Finance NWO OA Fund, Springer Open Choice Mandates

MIT, Stanford and Harvard author's final version / as of the date of

publication / waiver/opt-out / at no charge. EU, ERC

publisher's version and/or author's final version / embargo: up to 12 months after publication


What can you do?

1. Submit to OA journals / OA book publisher see the Directory of Open Access Journals

2. Deposit your postprints in a repository see SHERPA Romeo for publisher policies

3. Maintain (some) rights licences or addendum http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/

4. Deposit metadata if the publisher does not allow post print

archiving

http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/


Advantages of Open Access

1. Dissemination of knowledge is much more efficient Easy to find by search engines like Easy and free (!) to download for everyone

2. Accessibility is not limited by the library’s budget or the wealth of the country where the researcher is located.

3. Optimizes the use of the scientific output


Thank you for your attention!

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Saskia Woutersen

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Open Access by Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer

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