Making your research

Recipe

• Why Open Access?• Benefits• Funder requirements• Types of Open Access• Open Access journals• LSHTM Research Online• Help/Assistance• Licenses

Background• Technology allowed

information to be shared/liberated much more easily

• Open Data, Open Science, Open Educational Resources, Open Source Software

• Serials Crisis – 250% price increase over inflation in last 30 years

• Average annual profit for ‘big publishers’ 35%

Benefits• Increased/instant

communication• Interdisciplinary research• Raises research profile• New areas of research through

new technologies• Increased visiblity of developing

world’s research• Audiences outside academia• Improves the speed, efficiency

and efficacy of research• Research results are also

teaching materials

Types of Open Access• Gold and Green• Gold – immediate access to

final version/publisher pdf• PMC if required• Allows wide reuse• Sometimes a fee• Green – author accepted

manuscript, immediate or embargo period

• More restrictive reuse• No fee

Open Access Journals/Publishers• New ones everyday• PLoS, BioMed Central, e-Life,

Hindawi, Peer-J• Directory of Open Access

Journals• http://www.doaj.org/ • Hybrid Open Access journals• OA monographs – Ubiquity

Press• http://www.doabooks.org/ • Predatory publishers

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/

Article Processing ChargesSex Transm Infect

BMJ £1950 Hybrid Green

Lancet Elsevier £400 per page Hybrid Green

Aids LWW $3000 Hybrid No

PLoS One PLoS $1350 Gold No

BMJ BMJ £3000 Hybrid Green

Bull World Health Organ

WHO £0.00 Gold No

Lancet Global Health

Elsevier $4750 Gold No

Trop Med Int Health

Wiley $3000 Hybrid No

Vaccine Elsevier $3000 Hybrid Green

BMC Public Health

BMC £1290 Gold No

Funder requirements• RCUK, Wellcome Trust,

European Commission• Other funders e.g Gates

Foundation• Open Access immediately

or within 6-12months• Available in EuropePMC,

ESRC Catalogue, LSHTM Research Online

• Block grant

RCUK • Any articles/conference

proceedings 1st April 2013• Funder credited• Fee paid? Publisherpdf,CC-BY

license, Immediate OA• Author manuscript – no fee, CC-

BY-NC-ND license, embargo 6-24 months

• Collaborations then PI must decide responsible for OA

• Part or wholly funded• After lifetime of grant• RCUK students also eligible

School support for RCUK policyhttp://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/rcuk_open_access_policy.html

• Green (if possible)• PLoS, BMC and Elsevier• Additional journals

www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/lshtm_eligible_journal_list_sept_2013.pdf

• Decision tree www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/decision_tree_open_access_sept_2013.pdf

• Contact: researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

Wellcome Trust• CC-BY and deposited

immediately into EuropePMC/PMC

• Does not cover page/colour charges

• Books and book chapters October 1st 2013 (new grants) October 1st 2014 (current grants) any CC license

• NOT textbooks, edited collections

Select Journal

Green OA permitted?check http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/

or contact researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

Send author version to LSHTM-RO who will deposit in

relevant repositories

Send invoice to researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

Does Publisher offer Gold OA/CC-BY license?On recommended

journal list?

contact researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

Publish anyway and send details through to

researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

Decision Tree

YES NO

YES NONO

YES

Key & Notes: • Gold = An article processing charge is required, publisher final version pdf

is made open access immediately• Green = No article processing charge required, author accepted version

(peer reviewed, non formatted) is made open access either immediately or after an embargo

• APC = Article Processing Charge• LSHTM-RO = LSHTM Research Online• CC-BY = Creative Commons license that allows all reuse including

commercial as long as there is attribution• Sherpa Fact website allows researchers to check if a journal is compliant

with individual RCUK funders open access policies• PLoS, BioMed Central are ‘Gold’ and CC-BY• MRC/BBSRC articles must be deposited into EuropePMC. If ‘Gold’

publisher will do this, if ‘Green’ LSHTM-RO staff will arrange deposit• ESRC articles must be deposited into ESRC Research Catalogue, contact

LSHTM-RO staff for information

Paying Open Access• Article Processing Charge• Billing address:• London School of Hygiene

and Tropical MedicineKeppel StLondon WC1E 7HT

• VAT number: GB 233 7560 66

• Covers page/colour charges

LSHTM Research Onlinehttp://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/

• Schools online OA database/repository

• Gold & Green• NERC, BBSRC, ESPRC,

European Commission, Cancer Research, NIHR

• Reports, posters, presentations, theses, video, audio

• LSHTM login will allow you to create records directly

ResearchGate• ‘Facebook for academics’• Popular• Many questions about it• Unless article has been made

OA it cannot be deposited here

• Author accepted manuscript – your call

• Low likelihood of publisher asking you to remove paper

• Must have RG account to read papers

Creative Commons

• Licenses which clearly state what you can do

• CC-BY most ‘unrestricted’

• Commercial reuse, wikipedia, blogs, translations

• CC-BY-NC-ND can read, download, put on educational sites

Resources• Open Access Explained video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY• Library Blog http://lshtmlib.blogspot.co.uk/• LSHTM Research Online http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/• RCUK policy

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/rcuk_open_access_policy.html• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/• Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/• Wellcome Trust Open Access policy

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Guides/WTD018855.htm

• List of predatory publishers http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/

• Overview of OA http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

Summary

• Go Open• Choose green if possible• RCUK/Wellcome provide

funds• CC-BY license• Invoices to

researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

• LSHTM Research Online• Questions or help to

researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

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