Transcript Open Access - White Rose DTC

Carmen O’Dell
Open Access Coordinator
[email protected]
Open Access
 What is it?
 Why is it important?
 How does it impact on research(ers)?
 What should you be doing about it?
(One) Definition of Open Access
 General principle that research articles
should be freely available on the internet,
permitting any users to read, download,
copy, print, search, and link to the full text
with the proviso that authors are properly
acknowledged and cited.
 Full definition: Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
Why is Open Access important?
Total cost of ‘musthave’ journal
subscriptions for
average institution
Average
institutional
library
budget
The research cycle
RESEARCHERS
Consumers?
Producers
ARTICLES
Types of open access
 GOLD – the final version of the article is
available free of charge on the journal
website on publication. There is often a
charge for this to authors (APC)
 GREEN – self-archiving model.
Author deposits a publisher-approved
version of their manuscript in a subject or
institutional repository (eg. WRRO).
Embargos usually apply
Developments in the UK
 Wellcome (now COAF)
 RCUK
 HEFCE Policy for open access in the
post-2014 Research Excellence
Framework published March 2014
RCUK Policy on Open Access
 All RCUK funded-research articles must be made OA,
preferably via Gold route.
 Block grant to UK HEIs to pay for APCs
 Gold articles must be published under a CC-BY licence
 Authors can only opt to use Green if the embargo
periods offered by the journals are suitable.
 Only applies to articles, not books or other research
outputs.
How does a researcher comply
with RCUK/COAF/Wellcome?
 RCUK/COAF/Wellcome have provided money to UoS to
pay the OA charges (APCs) for authors funded by them
 When you have a paper accepted, contact
[email protected] to check eligibility, if funds
are still available and specific publisher advice
 Usual process is that the author requests an invoice
which they forward to the OA team, along with an
internal form that contains the data we need to report
back to funders
HEFCE : post-2014 REF OA Policy
 To be eligible for the next REF, the authors’
final peer-reviewed manuscripts of journal
or conference articles published after 1st of
April 2016 must have been deposited in an
institutional or subject repository no later
than three months from acceptance of
publication
=> GREEN Open Access
HEFCE : post-2014 REF OA Policy
 Only applies to articles published after the
1st of April 2016
 The policy does not apply to monographs,
book chapters or other research outputs
including data.
 Journal embargo periods should not exceed
12 months for STEM, 24 months for Arts, SS
subjects
How to comply with REF
 Register for an account on MyPublications
 On confirmation of acceptance of an article, create
a record and upload your ‘Author Final Copy’ to
the repository WRRO
 WRRO staff check correct version uploaded and
set embargo periods => make WRRO record live.
 Contact the OA team if they you need to publish
the article via gold open access route as well
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Be prepared!
 Acknowledge your Funder
 Look after your ‘Authors’ Final Copy’
 Once your article has been accepted for publication,
check SHERPA/Romeo to see if you can use the Green
route. If so, deposit the allowed version in WRRO via
myPubs as soon as possible (see our video for help)
 If you want to go Gold, contact the OA team on
[email protected]
 Check out our webpages for more information on
funder policies, FAQs etc
Why should you go Open Access?
 Compliance with funders
 Current subscription model is not
sustainable – at least not for libraries!
 OA extends access to materials to everyone,
regardless of status or location
 Increasing access should maximise impact
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Questions?
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