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Open access publishing
policies, advocacy and best practices
RSP webinar 8th June 2012
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
What is Open and what is Access?
• Open to read?
• Open to use?
• Open to re-use?
• Accessible for processing?
• Accessible by the public?
• Accessible by the world?
Publishing
• Journals
• Books
• New forms
– Social media
– Data
When colours get murky
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Gold
Green
White
Blue
Yellow
Journals
• Traditional subscription
• Hybrid
• Open Access Journals
• What is the money flow?
Some misinterpretations
• “Author pays publishing will mean I have to pay to get
published”
– OA Publication is not “Author pays”
– . . . is subscription known as “Reader pays”?
• “OA publishing is vanity publishing”
• “Since publishers get paid more the more they publish,
there is an incentive to publish as much as possible”
Addressing common concerns
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Does not affect Peer Review
Does not affect Quality
Does not affect Copyright
Does not affect Plagiarism
OA Publishers
• Normal journals and New approaches
• Frontiers
– 24,000 Editors and Reviewers
– 1,600 submissions per quarter, doubling every 9 months
• PloS One
– international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online
publication ... welcomes ... from any scientific discipline.
• eLife
– The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Max
Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust
OA Journals
• DOAJ
– www.doaj.org
• When Open Access does not equal Open Access
• Where is the money?
Funders and paying for it
• Publication is part of research – so part of research
grants – possibly 2%?
• Money available - but how to use it?
– Direct costs
– Indirect costs
– Timing within research life-cycle
• Institutional Publishing Funds
– Open access central funds in UK universities: Pinfield,
Stephen; Middleton, Christine
• Grants, waivers
Learned societies
• Effective communication is at the heart of societal
missions to inform and promote
• Outsourcing commerce to commercial wings . . .
• OA Publishing can bring financial clarity
– and why some people may think that’s not a good thing . . .
Lets do the show right here!
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
– “Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and
publishing system”
– http://pkp.sfu.ca/
• SAS
– http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus
– http://sasopenjournals.blogspot.com
Meanwhile, in the humanities . . .
• What about monographs, chapters, reports?
• What happens when you don’t have a funder?
Books
• eBooks developments
• But my royalties . . .
• OAPEN
– http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
– Open Monograph Press
– http://pkp.sfu.ca/omp
• DOAB
– 857 Academic peer-reviewed books from 27 publishers
– http://www.doabooks.org/
New forms
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Social Media
Academic.edu
Mendeley
Figshare
Mendeley
1,319,469 People
112,949 Groups
30,529 Institutions
129,692,213 Papers
New Forms
• Data
• Data-mining
• Creative Commons Licences
– Non-commercial?
• Funders now have data policies
– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php
• JISC now has active programme in area of data
access and management
Global movement
• USA
– Harvard
– Research Works Act
– White House Petition
• European Commission
– OpenAIRE
– Neelie Kroes - €80M Research to be made OA
• UK Moves
– Willett’s speech
– Finch Committee
Discussion
• Policies
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Funder
Institutional
Publishers
Best practice?
• Advocacy
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By who?
For what purpose?
What works?
Best practice?
Questions?
• Bill Hubbard
• Head of Centre for Research Communications
• [email protected]
Further links
• Open access central funds in UK universities
• Authors: Pinfield, Stephen; Middleton, Christine
• Source: Learned Publishing, Volume 25, Number 2,
April 2012 , pp. 107-116(10)
• Publisher: Association of Learned and Professional
Society Publishers
• http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/201
2/00000025/00000002/art00005
Further links
• Article charges
– RIN report "Heading for the Open Road" (April 2011)
estimated (p.9) that the global average cost per article was
£2,634 and noted that Outsell had estimated the 2009
weighted average for actual APCs charged as being £1,457.
• http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Dynamics
_of_transition_report_for_screen.pdf
– A table from BioMed Central comparing article fees
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/apccomparison/
– University of Nottingham average fee 2009/10 was £1200
with charges ranging from £200 to £3000
With thanks to Stephen Pinfield for this information
Further links
• Some further perspectives on submission fees are
explored in these blog posts (and links that can be
followed from them, including a Knowledge
Exchange report)
– http://cameronneylon.net/blog/they-just-dont-get-it/ (in the
comments particularly)
– http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/03/01/rea
l-cost-overpaying-journals/
– http://sharmanedit.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/submissionfees/
Public posting on JISC Repositories emailing list by Monica Duke, Digital Curation
Centre, with acknowledgment and thanks
Further links
• “PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international,
peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication ...
welcomes ... from any scientific discipline.
– Open-access—freely accessible online, authors retain
copyright
– Fast publication times
– Peer review by expert, practicing researchers
– Post-publication tools to indicate quality and impact
– Community-based dialogue on articles”
• http://www.plosone.org/home.action
Further links
• eLife is a researcher-driven initiative for the very
best in science and science communication. We
promote rapid, fair, and more constructive review.
We will use digital media and open access to
increase the influence of published works. We
commit to serving authors and advancing careers in
science. At eLife,
• http://www.elifesciences.org/
Further links
• SAS Open Journals
– Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes
• (i) a newly created overlay journal interface for the
journal Amicus Curiae;
• (ii) technical documentation and developer materials
for use by other developers integrating Open Journal
Systems with SWORD-compliant repositories;
• (iii) a feasibility study into the eventual adoption by
Amicus Curiae of a full life-cycle manuscript management
workflow using SAS Open Journals;
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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/inf11scholcomm/sasopenjour.aspx
Further links
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• “The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover
all open access scientific and scholarly journals that
use a quality control system to guarantee the
content.”
• http://www.doaj.org/
Further links
• On Predatory Publishers: a Q&A With Jeffrey Beall
• http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/on-predatorypublishers-a-qa-with-jeffrey-beall/47667
Further links
• Using social media to disseminate research outputs –
• Melissa Terras, Reader in Electronic Communications in
the Department of Information studies and Co-Director
of the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL
• http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/scholarlycommunications-new-developments-in-open-access/
Further links
• JISC programme in managing research data
• Research data management infrastructure projects
(RDMI)
• “... JISC’s Managing Research Data programme has,
with an investment of nearly £2M, funded eight
projects to provide the UK Higher Education sector
with examples of good research data management. “
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rd
mi.aspx
Further links
• Figshare allows researchers to publish all of their
research outputs in seconds in an easily citable,
sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats
can be published, including videos and datasets that
are often demoted to the supplemental materials
section in current publishing models. ... researchers
can easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer
effect and helping to make scientific research more
efficient.
• http://figshare.com
Further links
• Open Book Publishers
• “We are an independent academic publisher, run by
scholars who are committed to making high-quality
research available to readers around the world. We
publish monographs in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, and offer the academic excellence of a
traditional press, with the speed, convenience and
accessibility of digital publishing. All our books are
available to read for free online.”
• http://www.openbookpublishers.com/
Further links
• PEER Project –
• Project Summary:
• http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/pressrele
ases/PEER-Summary_31-May-2012-2.pdf
Further links
• OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association
• http://oaspa.org/conference/
• 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
COASP 2012: 19th to the 21st September
• Gerbeaud House in Budapest, Hungary.
• “This years’ conference will be of special interest for
Open Access book publishers, as part of the
program will be dedicated to book publishing.”