Swansea University 2013

Open Access: a quiet revolution?

Development of the Movement

2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative

2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

2012 Finch Report

Open Access: a definition

Users of OA material have the right to

"read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these

articles“ (Budapest Open Access

Initiative, 2002 )

An International Movement

http://www.openaccessmap.org/?p=1#oa_map

Different models are evolving...

Open Access Journal Publishing

There are a growing number of open access

journals and most of the major publishers now

have some kind of open access option

Open Access RepositoriesThe aim of the

Repository Movement... to collect, share and

preserve open access versions of research

papers... or Removing barriers to

current research

Institutional Repositories

Deposit in the repository and increase the visibility

of your work and the university

What is Gold Open Access?Gold = Full free access immediately upon publication

Any charge is paid at the beginning of the publication process by the author or funder rather than by the reader – APC’s

Examples

Biomed CentralPLOS Sage Open

Average cost £1600

What is hybrid Open Access?Traditional subscription journals with an optional OA

article processing charge for individual articles.

What is Green Open Access?Green = Publish conventionally without a fee then deposit

peer reviewed pre-print to a repositoryGreen versions are normally functionally equivalent to published

versions.

Pre-print or Post-print

Author needs to comply with publishers policies

Monographs and Open Access

Monographs and Open Access

http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/

Discussion – Open Access: what are the benefits and problems / challenges?• The benefits and problems of open

accesshttp://padlet.com/wall/researchimpact

Why Publish Open Access?

Impact - citation advantage http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Why Publish Open Access?

Funders increasingly require it

Open Access Tools Sherpa Juliet - A summary of policies given by various research funders as part of their grant awards Sherpa Fact – Funders & Authors Compliance Tool Sherpa Romeo – Journal copyright rules

Can you self archive? What embargo periods apply?

http://www.doaj.org/

Finding an Open Access Journal

Hands on

How does Swansea University support OA?To find out if your project qualifies and to access the request form

http://www.swan.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/or email APC.Requests@swansea.ac.uk

ISS can pay the APC Fees

for RCUK funded

research to be published

asCC-BY

RCUK requirements for APC funding

•Your research must be funded by RCUK and acknowledge this in your publication

•It must be for a peer reviewed journal article or conference paper. Other publication types are not covered at present.

•You must be using a gold open access route and a CC-BY licence.

•RCUK policy

Creative commons

The most liberal licence which allows others to use, remix and tweak your work, even commercially provided they credit you for the original creation – not a licence for plagiarism!

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Repositories

https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/

Questions

http://www.scoop.it/t/open-access-for-swansea-researchers/