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How to publish your research open access

Lars Figenschou, Lene Østvand and Per Pippin Aspaas

University Library

The slides will be available at

http://www.slideshare.net/UiT_takecontrol/

What is open access?

"Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of

most copyright and licensing restrictions."

(Suber, 2012)

OA is defined in three influential public

statements

1) The Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

2) The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)

3) The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences

and Humanities (2003)

The movement

Gold OA is when the publisher provides open

access.

The publishing process is similar to

that of traditional publishers.

Green OA is archiving in open repositories

At UiT you can archive at

munin.uit.no through CRIStin.

The university library checks what

version you can upload.

Remember to keep track of the last version of

your manuscript!

You can usually archive the post-print.

This is the last version of the

manuscript after peer review, but

before the publishers have

formatted the text and put on

their logo.

Hybrid OA is toll access (TA) journals that offer

OA against a fee

This is not recommended.

It is more expensive.

The publisher does not usally make

OA content easy to find.

What are the advantages of open access?

To society? To you as a researcher?

What are the advantages of open access?

Better ideology Better economy

Better science

http://sparceurope.org/oaca_table/

List of studies and results to date:

“….from 250% to 580% increase”Comparing the impact of open access (OA) vs non-OA articles in the same journals. Harnad S & Brody T (2004). D-Lib Magazine, 10(6), June.

The advantages of OA are well documented

POLITICAL SCIENCE: “OA publication results in a clear citation advantage”

LAW: “Across all data, OA articles accrued 49% more citations per year than non-OA articles”

CIVIL ENGINEERING: “OA articles formed 22% of the sample but received 29% of total citations to the sample”

NATURAL SCIENCE/BIOLOGY: “…a citation increase of 8% is found for the full data set”

ECONOMICS: “OA articles have on average a 307.9% higher citation count than non-OA articles”

MEDICINE/CHEMISTRY/BIOLOGY: “there was an approximately two-fold increase in citations for OA journals”

http://sparceurope.org/oaca_table/

So why not OA? Are there downsides?

Myth: It is more expensive to publish

Fact: Both TA and OA publishers often require an article processing fee of

varying size. There are OA publishers that demand lower fees than a

number of TA journals, and there are OA publishers that demand no fees.

Myth: You have less rights.

Fact: When publishing TA, you transfer all rights to your work to the

publisher. OA let you retain some rights, like making copies of your work.

Fact: We distinguish between gratis OA – no price barriers

and libre OA – fewer permission barriers.

Fact: Authors have the right to be properly acknowlegded and cited.

Fact: OA makes it easier to detect plagiarism.

Myth: OA publishers lack peer review and have

lower quality

Fact: Many OA publishers have peer review, and have a publishing process

similar to that of well established and well recognized traditional publishers.

Fact: Quality may be hard to measure, and high impact factor does not

always imply high quality. There are however ways to find good OA

publishers.

http://opendata.uit.no

http://opendata.uit.no/dvn/dv/trolling

http://figshare.com

Open Data

https://orcid.org

http://www.researcherid.com

https://www.academia.edu

https://www.mendeley.com

Dissemination and outreach

https://doaj.org/ DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ PUBLISHER COPYRIGHT POLICIES & SELF-ARCHIVING

https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside PUBLISERINGSKANALER (NIVÅ 1 - 2)

http://uit.no/ub/publisering PUBLISHING AT UIT / OPEN ACCESS RULES

http://www.openaccess.no/ OPEN ACCESS FAQ (NORWEGIAN)

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page OPEN ACCESS FAQ (ENGLISH)

Publish Open Access?

Here are the tools: