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T E C H N O L O G Y ,
I N F O R M A T I O N
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L E A R N I N G
S U P P O R T
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Support for gold open access
publishing strategies at QUT
Martin Borchert
Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support)
Colleen Cleary
Library Resource Services Deputy Manager
CRICOS No. 00213J
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Special thanks to:
Stephanie Bradbury
Research Support Librarian
Paula Callan
eResearch Access Coordinator
Christine Locke
Electronic Resources Assistant
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Make no mistake...
Green
Gold
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We’re going OA...
OA is about making published scholarly articles (and other
outputs) free, immediately, and permanently online in fulltext for everyone via the web.
Green road of OA self-archiving is where authors deposit a
free version of their published articles in an OA repository
Gold road of OA journal publishing is where authors pay to
publish in paid gold OA journals which are then freely
available via OA, or by publishing their articles in free gold
OA journals.
20% of published articles were available OA in 2009.
Bjork et al http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 in PLOS Currents
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It is generally accepted that OA supporters should
implement green OA initiatives first and as the primary
focus because green OA is the most transformative, and
that gold OA initiatives should be implemented
afterwards, or “green before gold”. This allows authors
the greatest choice of journals in which to publish, and
pushes the bulk of research outputs into the OA space
(Harnad, 2005).
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We’re going green...
Over 1,100
institutional OA
repositories
Over 25 million
records
Cumulative growth of Green OA policies
Enabling Open Scholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-andresearch-institutions?hlText=policies
91% journals and
63% publishers
allow self-archiving
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And we’re going gold ...
Free gold OA
Paid gold OA
(author / research
grant / library
pays)
DOAJ lists >6,000
gold OA journals
and the list is
growing
500,000 full text
articles OA
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Challenges, barriers and misunderstandings
• Lack of awareness of
awareness of OA and gold OA
• Smaller range of journals
across disciplines
• Misconception that low levels
of gold OA publishing reflect
low acceptance
• Confusion over peer review
• Perceived high cost by
researchers
• Who will pay?
• Misconception that authors are
paying to get published
• New journals don’t have time
to develop high impact factors
• Support for traditional gated
publishing methods
• Diversity of confusing
publisher business models
• The hybrid double dipper
business model
• Some publishers taking
advantage of confusion
regarding OA in order to resell
free content for profit
• Misconception that OA is about
punishing traditional publishers
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Governance and strategy
• Information Resources Committee
• Research Support Committee
F/1.3 QUT ePrints repository for research output
Collection Development Manual
CDM 3.1.5 Open Access
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CDM 3.1.5 Open Access
QUT Library actively supports the [paid] gold road by:
• Managing the subscriptions for, and paying author
publication fees for true gold road open access
publishers such as:
– BioMed Central
– Public Library of Science
– Hindawi Press
• Assisting academics with the publishing process
QUT Library will not support or pay author publication fees
to commercial publishers that are double or triple dipping
by simultaneously marketing their content using multiple
business models including traditional subscriptions, gold
road open access, and on-selling to aggregators.
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QUT Library actively
supports the [free] gold
road by:
• Providing a free gold
OA journal hosting
service using Public
Knowledge Project
(PKP) Open Journal
Systems (OJS)
Example: First Year in Higher Education International Journal
https://www.fyhe.com.au/journal/index.php/intjfyhe
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Selection of gold OA journals
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Alignment with QUT’s research strengths and priorities
QUT researcher feedback and demonstrated demand
Publisher reputation and journal quality
Publications are peer reviewed
Journal impact factor (publisher average)
Acceptable and affordable author publication fees
The publisher / journal uses a true gold open access
business model and not a hybrid “double dipper”
• Budgetary implications for the Library Resource
Allocation (materials budget).
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BioMedCentral (BMC)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/
Hindawi
http://www.hindawi.com/
Molecular Diversity Preservation
International (MDPI)
http://www.mdpi.org/
International Union of
Crystallography
http://www.iucr.org/
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Bentham Open
http://www.bentham.org/
Maney Open
http://www.maney.co.uk/
InTech
http://www.intechweb.org/
MedKnow
http://www.medknow.com/
Open Access Scholarly
Publishing Association
http://www.oaspa.org/
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Promotion
http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/initiatives/researchsupport/comms/index.jsp
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Promotion
+ Scholarly publishing seminars
and workshops
http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=84068&sid=624533
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Development of library staff
The Library has a research support seminar series for
library staff to develop their knowledge and skills.
See paper “Borchert and Callan, (2011), Preparing Library
staff for research support roles at QUT”
Support model
Research Support Team x 2
Liaison Librarians x 20
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Development
Promotion and support
Licensing and payment
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Researcher uptake
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BMC
Hindawi
PLoS
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Impact
BMC gold open access journals in which QUT authors published had impact
factors of ranging from 1.64 to 4.93 and SJR scores from 0.044 to 0.755.
Hindawi journals had impact factors from 0.73 to 0.88 and SJR scores from 0.036
to 0.121.
PLoS journals in which QUT published had impact factors ranging from 4.351 to
13.050 and SJR scores from 0.690 to 1.180.
PLoS journals are averaging the highest in terms of impact, followed by BMC
journals and then Hindawi journals.
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Citations
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Cost
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QUT has paid US$80,294 to BMC since 2006, making
the total average charge per article A$1,824.
QUT has paid US$18,510 to PLoS since, making the
total average charge per article about A$2,477.
QUT has paid US$3,000 to Hindawi in 2010, making
the average total charge per article in 2010 A$1,606,
however, if a third article still in submission is
published, the cost will be A$1,070.
These costs seem justifiable when compared to the
costs found in the literature.
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In summary
Paid gold OA provides a secondary (to green OA) avenue
for making institutional publications available OA
There is growing list of gold OA journals to target
It is important to apply selection processes
Demand may be moderate / the cost my be acceptable
You really should try it!
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Discussion.
Please read the paper in full.