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23/10/2013

Open Access Publishing: Understanding the implications for the Arts and Humanities

Nancy Pontika, PhDInformation Consultant for Research

@nancypontika

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Open Access

“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”

(Suber, 2007)

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Gold route

JournalsOpen Access Journals offer peer-reviewed research. 30% charge an Article Processing Charge (APC), 70% do not

Subscription based journals that offer an open route- hybrid journals-always (100%) charge Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Repositories

Green route

Institutional

Royal Holloway Research

Online

Subject

arXiv.org

Repositories- Do NOT perform peer-review- Pre-prints, post-prints, final version- Standardised: OAI-PMH compatible

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Royal Holloway Open Access Publications Policy

• Research Councils promote unrestricted access to published outputs from the research they fund

• Aims to maximise the visibility, citation, usage and impact of the College's research output

• Aims to minimise the effort to provide open online access to College’s research

• From September 1st 2010, it is a requirement for all researchers to submit copies of their research outputs, after they have been accepted as suitable for publication, to the Institutional Repository accessed via Pure (http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/admin)

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RCUK Policy on Access to Research Outputs (July 2012)

• In effect from April 1st 2013• Journal articles and conference proceedings

• RCUK green compliant journals: • 7/8 of 40% UK’s OA literature, world’s 20%

- Allow self-archiving in repositories - 12 months embargo period for STEM- 24 months embargo period for HSS

• RCUK gold compliant journals:- Open Access or hybrid journals with CC-BY• Article Processing Charges (APCs)

• 59% paid by funder, 24% institution, 12% author• Double dipping, no transparency in publishers’

subscription deals

RCUK will provide funding to enable:• 45% compliance the

first year• 50% compliance the

second year [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/121108.aspx]

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Policy for the Administration of the RCUK Block Grant for Open Access to Fund Article Processing Charges: Part 1

• On April 1st 2013 Royal Holloway received a block grant from RCUK to cover Article Processing Charges (APCs)

• The funds from the APC block grant are allocated on a first come, first served basis

• Corresponding authors must make an APC application prior to submitting an article for publishing

• Decisions on awarding funds for APCs are not based on academic criteria but only on verification of the eligibility criteria

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Case study 1: Repositories / Green route

Licensing AgreementRepositories/ Green OA

Embargo:12 m. STEM24 m. HSS

RCUK-funded author chooses to publish in Journal X

Journal X complies with the RCUK open access policy via the green route only

Author submits article to the journal and self-archives into the repository respecting the embargo period

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Case study 2: Journals / Gold route

Journals/ Gold routeAPCs

CC-BY

RCUK-funded author chooses to publish in Journal X

Journal X complies with the RCUK open access policy via the gold route only

Author applies to the Library for an APC grant prior to submission. The application is accepted and author submits article to Journal X

Article is published with a CC-BY license

Licensing Agreement

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Case study 3: Green OA and Gold OA

Green OA Gold OA

RCUK-funded author chooses to publish in Journal X

Journal X complies with the RCUK open access policy both via Gold OA and Green OA

There is no RCUK funding available anymore at Royal Holloway. Author complies with the green route by self-archiving into the repository

Licensing Agreement

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Case study 4: Foreign Journals

Agreement

No RCUK provisionRCUK-funded author chooses to publish in Journal X, which is a foreign

journal

Journal X has no provision about the RCUK open access policy

Author contacts publisher to ask if s/he can have a special agreement t0 help her/him comply with the RCUK open access policy:Option 1: Publisher agrees and author submits the article to the journalOption 2: Publisher disagrees. Author chooses to publish somewhere else Option 3: Publisher disagrees. Author chooses to publish in Journal X and not comply with the RCUK open access policy

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HEFCE: Consultation on the criteria for post-2014 REF

Green open access only/ repository submission

The outputs that the criteria apply to are:• Journal articles or conference proceedings

only• Published after a two year notice period (i.e. 2016)• With UK HEIs in address field

Consultation from the UK HEIs:• Licenses: CC-BY or any other liberal license • Immediate deposit or delayed deposit• Full compliance or percentage compliance

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Library Services

• Open Access Team provides support on APC funding allocation, manages applications and administers the APC block grant

• Library offers consultation on alternative ways of complying with the RCUK policy, i.e. green OA and self-archiving

• Consultation on copyrights

• Consultation on research data management

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Website and Contact information:Open Access: www.rhul.ac.uk/library/openaccessEmail: openaccess@rhul.ac.uk & nancy.pontika@rhul.ac.ukTwitter: @OpenRHUL

Thank you!

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