Supporting your Open Access Initiatives with Web of Science Rachel Borchardt Science Librarian, American University

Kristen FaethSolutions Specialist, Web of Science Group

Spring 2019

Developing and refining your talking points when discussing the benefits of Open Access

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Analyzing your institution's Open Access output in the Web of Science

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Q&A4

Agenda

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Trends in Open Access1

~50% of recent scholarly papers are estimated to

be freely available1

50%

Funder OA mandates3

140+

articles published in “predatory” OA journals

since 20005

420k+

5k+Institutional repositories4

13kGold OA Journals2

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Web of Science is the first & only editorially curated and publisher-neutraldiscovery resource for trusted, peer-reviewed Open Access content.

Works cited list available in slide notes

Trends in Open Access

Analyzing your institution's OA output in the Web of Science

Leading innovation in Open Access discovery and delivery

2.2 millionOpen Access items

identified in the Core Collection only

Gold journals

201820172014

The picture was incomplete:

• Only items in the Core Collection were considered.

• The status for other OA types, such as Hybrid Gold OA & Green OA, was missing.

Clarivate Analytics invents OA Discovery

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OA in WoS as of November 2017, prior to new OA technology release

• The Web of Science now offers a more complete picture of trusted OA, including legal, peer-reviewed Green and Hybrid Gold content across all databases.

• You now have direct access to more free full text and can be confident that you are finding the best available, legal OA version.

Clarivate partners with ImpactStory to improve OA identification for all.

OA in WoS as of April 16, 2019, with new OA technology in place

12 million+Open Access items

identified across the full Web of Science platform

DOAJ Gold journals

Green manuscripts

Green articles

Other Gold articles

Bronze articles

Web of Science is the first and only editorially curated and publisher-neutral discovery resource for trusted, peer-reviewed Open Access content.

“Unpaywall is a groundbreaking development,” says Alberto Martín-Martín, who studies bibliometrics and science communication at the University of Grenada in Spain. “It takes us one step closer to achieving a true open research infrastructure.”

Else, H. (2018). How Unpaywall is transforming open science. Nature, 560(7718), 290-291. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05968-3

What types of Open Access are identified in the Web of Science?

Green Published Papers are final published articles available without charge from a repository.

Green Accepted Papers are peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts available without charge from a repository.

DOAJ Gold100% of the articles published within a journal are open access.

Other Golda.k.a. “Hybrid” Individual articles that are available at no charge from otherwise subscription-based journals. These papers have been identified by Impactstory as having a Creative Commons (CC) license that are not in DOAJ journals.

BronzeA freely accessible final version of an article on a publisher's website. Bronze OA on Web of Science can contain free-to-read copyrighted "public access" versions and free-to-read versions where license information was unidentifiable.

Open Access across the Web of Science platform

Article-level Open Access identification helps you find legally available Gold,

Hybrid Gold, and Green articles.

Web of Science facilitates access to the best available version of OA content.

• Multiple OA versions are provided per article. Researchers seeking full text will retrieve the best version of an article, in most cases directly from the publisher, by default. When available, you can access additional versions via a drop down menu.

• Versions that have not completed peer review (i.e. Green Submitted) or whose copyright is not clear are intentionally omitted.

• Versions from social networks (e.g. ResearchGate) and file-sharing services (e.g. Sci-Hub) are excluded.

High priority Final version

Lower priority

Gold Bronze

Green PublishedGreen Accepted

Green Submitted Pre-Peer Review

What sources do you look at to identify Open Access material?

Is my institutional repository covered?

Find out by viewing the Unpaywall Source List

Web of Science supports OA reporting and assessment needs of institutions

To support your assessment use cases, Web of Science stores ALL identified OA versions for a given article, rather than just one, to help you measure the success of your institutional policies.

Does posting a preprint positively or negatively

affect impact of the published version?

Has my institution’s policy on self-archiving

been successful?

How is my portfolio of full Gold Journals performing?

Web of Science will help you understand:

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Example: Drexel UniversityAnalyzing the OA output of an organization in Web of Science

There are 36,850 Drexel University papers published from 1999-present in Web of Science Core Collection*, and 7,870 of those papers are available as open access.

Drexel has 291 Hot and Highly Cited Papers^, and 146 of those papers are Open Access.

21.4%Percentage of

Drexel’s output that is OA

DOAJ Gold: 23.7%

Other Gold: 5.9%

Bronze: 42.3%

Green Published: 38.4%

Green Accepted: 23.8%

*statistics as of April 15, 2019

^papers that have achieved a high citation threshold when compared to peer papers, based on data from Essential Science Indicators

50.2%Percentage of

Drexel’s Top Papers that are OA

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In which fields do Drexel authors publish OA?

Use the Analyze Results tool to learn more about your results.

In which fields do your authors publish OA most frequently?

In which journals do your authors publish OA?

Which funders supported your OA papers?

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In which Gold OA Neurosciences journals have Drexel authors published?

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Which Drexel authors are self-archiving their peer-reviewed research?

The Web of Science can help you identify authors at your institution, who are already making their work accessible.

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+ many more ways to look at OAWeb of Science Group tools support a detailed analysis of your OA output

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When comparing the citation impact of Inst. X’s Gold OA articles to all articles in a five year period, Gold articles perform better in most fields, especially Physical Sciences.

Further reading: Bosman J, Kramer B. (2018) Open access levels: a quantitative exploration using Web of Science and oaDOI data. PeerJ Preprints 6:e3520v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3520v1

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Positioning OA to administrators and researchers

Rachel BorchardtAssociate Director, Research and Instructional Services, and Science

LibrarianAmerican University

April 17, 2019

Institutional pitches and resourcesAdministrative priorities:• Impact – how does OA correlate

with high impact?

• Many studies show an overall increase in citation count

Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., ... & Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ, 6:e4375. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375

OA messaging: impact

• Institutional-level impact comparisons possible with several subscription products:

• SciVal• InCites• Dimensions

• Example is my institution’s OA weighted impact (blue) vs. all publications (orange)

• we have no OA mandates

OA messaging: comparisons• Benchmarking – what are peers and aspirational peers doing?• FOMO – how prevalent are OA initiatives? Who are the big players?

http://roarmap.eprints.org/

OA messaging: funds

• Finance – how does OA, including OA 2020, impact library budget?

https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=478984&p=3305688 UMD Libraries, “Why do we have to cut journals?”https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/

OA messaging: funders

Funders indicating support may influence future grant acceptance and compliance

https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/- Plan S signers, including nations and

funders

Individual researcher pitches

• Findability – how can others discover my work?

• Publication is just one step in making research open

• Unpaywall is making OA easier than ever to find

• Package cancellations make OA more attractive

Rainbow of open access practices, https://zenodo.org/record/1147025#.W-BgA5NKhaQhttps://unpaywall.org/

Researchers – audience engagement

• Findability – reaching target audience(s)

• Community partners• Global south or other researchers

with limited resources• General public• Policymakers• .. Pretty much anyone but well-

connected scholars• Altmetrics help track

engagement with these audiences

Researchers – financial considerations

• Contributing to new financial model

• Library budget specifics not always well understood by researchers

• UC deal, others provide opportunity for discussion

• Personal finances - library OA funding support, if appropriate

• Lots of information, tips for libraries on funds here: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oa-funds/

Researchers – external influences

• Institutional mandates/resolutions

• Funding mandates

• Citation counts for P&T• Pre-prints get cited sooner – good

for recent articles

Putting it all together for researchers: faculty workshop

Organized by school’s Research Promotion office

3 speakers, 1 hour

Lunch provided

~15 faculty

OA: worthy of its own discussion, but generates more interest when incorporated into larger topics

• Topics covered include:• Researcher Networks• Researcher IDs, including ORCID• OA trends and correlations to impact• Repository options for publications,

other materials• Tools for making research open• Word choice for SEO• Researcher info seeking behaviors

(Google, ResearchGate use, etc.)• Impact factor and journal target

audience reach

One major theme – increasing discoverability

Lots of opportunities to promote OA and library

Thank you!

Rachel Borchardtborchard@american.eduTwitter: @ButternutSquash