OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

Sally ScholfieldUTS Library

What is open access (OA)?

Why OA?

Gold or Green OA?

Gold OA – publish in OA journal

Author publishes work in a high quality OA journal that allows free and immediate access to articles via the publisher’s web site

Agreement that author signs with publisher should allow deposit of work in an OA repository

Consider publishing in a UTSePress OA journal

Green OA – deposit in OA repository

Author publishes work in a peer-reviewed journal of their choice

Author then deposits a version of the work in a repository which makes it freely available Version will depend on the agreement author signed with publisher

SHERPA/RoMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ or OAKlist http://www.oaklist.qut.edu.au/

Institutional repository eg UTSePress

Subject repository eg arXiv.org (physics, maths) or Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Advantages of Green Open Access include:

You can publish in the ‘best’ journal for your research

Your research will be more widely discoverable and accessible

You don’t have to pay any article processing charges

Your rights

Authors have rights of control over their work, known as copyright

Allows the author to decide how their work is used, reproduced, published or distributed

Any publication of your work will involve an agreement between author and publisher

you decide which rights are assigned to a publisher as part of this agreement

you can sign over all your rights or you can limit the rights that are assigned

Read the publisher agreement and negotiate your rights eg SPARC Addendum to Publication Agreement

The agreement should state whether your work can be deposited in a repository – and if so which version

Traditional publishers may allow deposit of the ‘accepted manuscript’ version immediately or the published version after an embargo period

Generally OA publishers use Creative Commons licence which permit deposit of any version of your work in a repository

Consider using a CC licence as your copyright licence – simple, standardised permissions for dissemination and use of licenced work

Creative Commons

OA business models

Full OA

Articles are online immediately, available to all readers with no charges to author or readers

Embargoes

Articles are available to paid subscribers first

Then freely available to all readers after embargo period - few weeks to few years

Article Processing Charges

Journal is fully OA

Author charged Article Processing Charge (APC) for cost of publishing – $000s to $0,000s

Charge may be financed by faculties or research grants

Charge may be waived if author unable to pay eg BioMed Central, PLOS, Hindawi

2013 UTS Library pilot payment of APCs in selected peer-reviewed OA publications

Hybrid

Single articles in subscription journals made open access for a fee

‘Double dipping‘ - retain traditional revenue streams from subscriptions, receive additional income from APCs

As a relatively new field, OA publishing has attracted some less than reputable publishers

Check Jeffery Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers

How to select high quality OA journals?

Is the journal listed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)?

DOAJ lists over 9000 OA journals from all disciplines which are peer- reviewed or have editorial quality control

Does the journal have a clearly stated peer-review process?

See the journal or Ulrich’s Periodical Directory

Does the editorial board include recognised experts in your field?

Does the journal appear in Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Journal list?

More tools to find, compare and evaluate journals

Subject and multi-disciplinary databases in your field

Scopus – Journal Analyzer

Journal Citation Reports

Consult supervisors, colleagues or faculty on where to publish for your discipline

UTS OA Policy

The University of Technology, Sydney is committed to ensuring wide dissemination of its research and scholarship and supporting the principles of an international open access community. This Policy aims to ensure that research and scholarly works undertaken at UTS are available online and worldwide, free of charge and from other restrictions wherever possible. It enables UTS researchers to meet the requirements of funding bodies (for example the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council), to make research results publicly accessible.

In addition to the public benefits of an open access approach to research and scholarship, this Policy is intended to serve the interests of UTS students and staff by:

widening the potential research readership

increasing the impact of research and scholarly outputs

simplifying the authors' retention of distribution rights

aiding preservation.

Outputs of research and scholarship conducted at UTS are collected as part of the University's research management processes and are stored and made accessible through the UTS digital repository.

The UTS Intellectual Property Policy contains provisions on the ownership of intellectual property which allows the University to make publicly available, staff and student research or scholarly outputs for the benefit of the community and the University.

http://www.gsu.uts.edu.au/policies/index.html

UTSePress Research

UTS digital or institutional repository

Secure online space managed by UTS Library to archive UTS scholarly output

• UTS research publications that are submitted for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) such as peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and research monographs

• research known as grey literature eg unpublished conference papers and posters, datasets, podcasts and vodcasts, presentation slides and other forms of scholarship

• PhD, Masters by Research, and in exceptional cases, Honours theses

Universities report research publications to HERDC as part of the funding process

Researchers submit information about their research to RMENet, the UTS Research and Innovation Office’s research management system

RIO processes the submission – automatic flow through and archival in UTSePress

For grey literature, contact the Library

Doctoral and Masters by Research theses are submitted in digital format and archived in UTSePress

UTSePress Publishing UTSePRESS - hosts 15 open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals + student journals, conference proceedings and books including multi-media works not primarily text

Journals are free from financial barriers (gratis), legal barriers (libre) except attribution and technical barriers

We invite submissions from authors and queries from potential new journals

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/open-access

Sally.Scholfield@uts.edu.au

Matthew.Noble@uts.edu.au

UTS Copyright Officer