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Nancy Pontika, PhD

Open Access Adviser

Repositories Support Project (RSP)

Center for Research Communications (CRC)

University of Nottingham

[email protected]

Twitter: @nancypontika

6th International Open Access Week, October 22-28, 2012

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State of scholarly communication

•Scholars publish: – Inform, distribute, develop, build, add, educate– Share their work; cooperate with others – Promotion and tenure; publish or perish

•Referees: – Do not receive loyalties– Belong to editorial boards for prestige– Their work could be conducted outside the publishing

industry


Commercial publishing industry


The period

1986- 2003, subscription prices increased more than 260%


Open access (OA) movement

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder”.

(Suber, 2007)


OA initiatives

•The Budapest Open Access Initiative, December 1-2, 2001 – BOAI10•Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003•Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, October 22, 2003

Goal: accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet


Gold route

• Open Access Journals• Peer-reviewed research• Subscription based journals that offer an open route through Article Processing Charges (APCs)


Repositories

•Do NOT perform peer-review•Pre-prints and/or post-prints•Standardized: OAI-PMH compatible

SubjectSubject

Green route


Contracts


• Policy on Access to Research Outputs (July 2012). In effect April 1st, 2013

• Intramural research

• Green or gold open access

• RCUK compliant journals

• Green compliant repositories

• Article Processing Charges (APCs)


Working Group on Expanding AccessFinch Report

•Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications •OA journals “main vehicle” for publishing research•Repositories only for theses and dissertations, etc. •No licensing recommendations•Against short embargoes


Right to Research Coalition – R2RC

•Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)•Efforts to promote OA to students•Student Statement on the Access to Research•Students demand OA from faculty and academic institutions

– improves educational experience – a democratic way to access research– advances research– allows more visibility and a greater impact to research


Bibliography

•Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications [http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-executive-summary-FINAL-VERSION.pdf]•Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/]•Policy on Access to Research Outputs [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx]•Repositories Support Project (RSP) [http://www.rsp.ac.uk/]•SHERPA/RoMEO [http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/]•Suber, P. (2007). Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer reviewed research articles and the preprints. [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm] •Right to Research Coalition [http://www.righttoresearch.org/]


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