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What is

Open Access?

Open Access 101:Unlocking the power of scientific research

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Open Access 101

The Open Knowledge

environment

Discoverability through

Metadata

Interoperability for an e-research

infrastructure

Open Access Repositories

Open Access Journals

Why Open Access?

What is Open Access?

Open Access Policies

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What is Open Access?

Introduction to Open Access

OPEN ACCESS is: Scholarly research that is

DIGITAL,Free to ACCESS &

Free to USE with minimal restrictions

Open Access (OA) is the free, unrestricted access via the internet to knowledge in the form of research outputs – so research is free to access and includes full re-use rights.

Making knowledge both free to access and free to use, re-use, and build upon is critical for international development, innovation, and progress. Science builds on itself and requires collaboration and the exchange of ideas, but individuals must be able to access and fully use this knowledge base in order to engage.


Why Open Access?

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INCREASED ACCESS,

EXPOSURE, & USAGE

Global Access

Global Visibility

Global Exposure

Private sector, practitioners, policy makers, students have access to research

Public access to publicly-funded research

Increased citations

Increased usage

Faster time from research to application

Research & discovery through open licenses – legal re-use, adaptations, remixing

Sparks innovation & creativity



“Gold” OA:Authors publish in Open Access journals, i.e. scholarly journals which are: peer-reviewed, free to access, and free to use

Open Access journals* are:

• Free to access• Free to use: at a minimum, the journals allow users to “read, download, copy,

distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles” • Scholarly in nature: these journals exercise peer-review or editorial quality control• Immediate access: no embargo or delay on open status


*Based on the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of Open Access and the Directory of Open Access

Journals (DOAJ) criteria for inclusion in DOAJ database. More details: https://doaj.org/about



Myth: all Open Access journals charge author fees. Reality: While some do levy Article-Processing Charges (APCs) or publication fees, many don’t.


“Hybrid” journals: Subscription-based/closed access journals (not Open Access) but offer authors the option to make their articles openly accessible for a price.

“Diamond” Open Access Journals: Open Access without APCs

Article-Processing Charges (APCs): Usually range from $99 to $3500, but wide differences between journals and publishers.


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Open Access and the digital environment have led to new types of publishing and a changing scholarly ecosystem.

MegaJournals New type of journal. Journals accept all submissions within scope that are based on sound science and publish as articles areavailable, not on a set printing schedule. Examples: PLoS One, BMJ Open, Peer J, SAGE Open

Cross-disciplinary journals Cross-disciplinary journals: Stronger support for interdisciplinary journals and others which cross traditional boundaries which were not sustainable in traditional models.

Library as publisher Publisher: Increasingly, more libraries are hosting journals and serving in the role of publisher. By using the open-source platform Open Journal Systems (OJS), libraries are working with university presses or individual editors and hosting peer-reviewed journals.

Altmetrics and Article-LevelMetrics

Different types of metrics to measure and gauge access to research. The digital environment has made it possible to begin tracking downloads, page views, and social media references to a particular item at the article level, rather than at the journal level.

Open Access Repositories


“Green” Open Access:1) Authors publish in scholarly journal, AND2) Deposit manuscript into an Open Access repository

Interoperable, standards-compliant repositories to collect, describe, disseminate, and preserve open content


COLLECT

Check self-archiving permissions in

SHERPA/RoMEOdatabase

DEPOSIT

Deposit appropriate version & metadata

into repository

DISSEMINATE

Disseminate via Open Access Repositories

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Open Access Policies


- Organizational OA policies by funding agencies- National policies- Universities with institutional policies

Examples of National and Research Funders’ OA & Related Policies

Mandate Open Access through:

- Argentina (national policy)- Australia Research Council- Autism Speaks- CGIAR- European Commission- Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)- Germany (national policy)- Spain (national policy)- UK Department of International

Development (DFID)

- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

- White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, covering top US federal funding agencies

- US National Institutes of Health- Wellcome Trust- World Bank


Metadata


Metadata: “Data about data”

In order for Open Access research to be usable, it must first be discoverable. Rich metadata makes it possible for search engines and other systems to find Open Access scholarship. Since most Open Access content is accessed via search engines, it is critical that materials are discoverable.

Metadata can include details such as:

• Authors’ names and institutional affiliations• Subject matter• Abstract or short description of the research• Publication details: journal title, volume, issue• Intellectual property rights• Publication dates• Embargo dates• Administrative details


Interoperability


“Interoperability is the technical ‘glue’ that makes possible an emerging open science infrastructure – an infrastructure that connects a global, de-centralised network of repositories and other tools. While technology exists to make possible this integration, the landscape around interoperability is complex, and continually evolving.”

– The Case for Interoperability by The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)


Interoperability


Interoperability & adoption of international standards make it possible to develop new tools to support repositories and connect repositories to build a global e-research infrastructure.

Metadata harvesting- OAI-PMH

Protocols for transferring content between systems- SWORD: Deposit once, push content to multiple systems- Dataverse APIs

Author identifiers, data identifiers- ORCID, AuthorID, PersID

Article-level metrics (ALMs) and altmetrics for repositories- Impact Story, Almetrics.org, Plum Analytics- PLOS Article-Level Metrics API


Open Knowledge


• Open Data• Open Education• Open Educational Resources (OERs)• Open Licenses• Open Scholarship / Open Peer-Review• Open Science• Open Source Software

openOpen Access to research is one component of the growing Open Knowledge environment:


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