Characterizing Open Access Publishing @ Your

Institution

Lilly Li, Digital Repository Librarian

David E. Hubbard, Science & Engineering Librarian

Outline

Definitions and Background Open Access Publishing Studies Open Access Publishing @ TAMU Open Access Publishing @ Your Institution Hands-on Exercises

Scholarly Communications

“…the creation, transformation, dissemination

and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavors….Among the many scholarly communications issues include author rights, the economics of scholarly resources, new models of publishing including open access, institutional repositories, rights and access to federally funded research, and preservation of intellectual assets.”

(Bernard Becker Medical Library, 2008)

Open Access (OA)

“… digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” (Suber, 2012, p. 4)

“Flavors” of Open Access Gold: provide immediate open access, peer

reviewed; authors retain copyright Green: self-archiving; not necessarily peer

reviewed Hybrid: some open access Delayed: embargo period

Some Questions about OA Publishing? How much OA publishing is there at my

institution?

In what OA journals are my faculty publishing?

In what disciplines is the OA publishing occurring?

Literature Review

Summary of Previous OA Survey and Bibliometric Studies

Percent OA

Description Study

Survey

52.3 367 clinical/academic researchers in Iran (2009) Khalili (2011)

29.7684 science/social science faculty at the University of Kashmir (2008)

Gul et al. (2009)

20544 researchers at six public universities in Tanzania (2007-2010)

Dulle et al. (2010)

Bibliometric

30.58 448 publications from the University of Kashmir (2000-2010) Ali et al. (2011)

38.11 622 publications from nine Indian universities (2000-2008) Bhat (2008)

7.8 17,516 publications from five Indian universities (2003-2007) Bhat (2009)

109,000 publications of 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society (2009)

Dallmeir-Tiessen et al. (2010)

1275 publications of prolific authors at the University of Utah (2009)

Amos et al. (2012)

Web of Science and OA

Web of Science Introduced an Open Access facet in 2014 Indexes approximately 1,200 “gold” OA journals

Caveats Only covers 1,200 of the 9,500 OA journals in the

DOAJ Excludes delayed, green, and articles from hybrid

journals Its not perfect.

Open Access Publishing @ TAMU

Data: Web of Science

Hands-On Exercises

How many OA articles did your institutionpublish in 2013 (absolute and percentage)?

What are your top OA journals?

Who are your top OA authors?

What are your top OA disciplines?

How has your OA publishing changed over time?

ReferencesBernard Becker Medical Library. (2008). What is Scholarly Communications? Retrieved February 28 2008, from http://becker.wustl.edu/services/scholarly/whatis.html.

Ali, A., Shah, T. A., & Mirza, I. Z. (2011). Open Access Research Output of the University of Kashmir. Trends in Information Management, 7(2), 237-243.

Amos, K., Mower, A., James, M. A., Weber, A., Yaffe, J., & Youngkin, M. (2012). Exploring publishing patterns at a large research university: Implications for library practice. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 7(3), 32-50.

Bhat, M. H. (2008). Open access publishing in Jammu and Kashmir State: An assessment. Trends in Information Management, 4(1), 20-37.

Bhat, M. H. (2009). Open access publishing in Indian premier research institutions. Information Research, 14(3). Retrieved March 12, 2014, from http://www.informationr.net/ir/14-3/paper409.html.

Dallmeier-Tiessen, S., et al. (2010). Open Access Publishing - Models and Attributes. Geneva, Switzerland. Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP). Retrieved March 8, 2014, from http://edoc.mpg.de/478647.

Dulle, F. W., Minishi-Majanja, M. K., & Cloete, L. M. (2010). The adoption of open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities. 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Gothenburg, Sweden. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://conference.ifla.org/past-wlic/2010/138-dulle-en.pdf.

Gul, S., Shah, T. A., & Bhagwan, T. A. (2010). Culture of open access in the University of Kashmir: A researcher's viewpoint. Aslib Proceedings, 62(2), 210-222.

Khalili, L. (2011). Familiarity and experience with open access among Iranian medical researchers. Libri, 61(4), 338-350.

Suber, P. (2012). Open access. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Questions?