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F E B R U A R Y 1 3 , 2 0 1 4

Scholarly Communications: Placing your article and your

author’s rights

Agenda

This workshop will cover resources to help you determine where to place your articles (what journals publish in your area and how can you evaluate their quality)

Your rights as an author and strategies for retaining them when you publish.

Some considerations in open access publishing

Finding a journal in your field

Directories

Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory

Cabells Directories (PSU Library subscribes to the Accounting; Economics & Finance; Management; Marketing; Educational Curriculum & Methods; Educational Psychology & Administration; Educational Technology & Library Science directories)

Magazines for Libraries (Z6941 .K2 )

Finding a journal in your field

Consult the list of publications in the appropriate disciplinary I&A database(s)

Sometimes found through a link in the information about the database

Sometimes find through a Google search

Finding a journal in your field

Consult the list of publications in the appropriate disciplinary I&A database(s)

Sometimes find through a Google search

Finding a journal in your field

“By Hand”

Physical browsing of the library shelves in appropriate call number ranges

Keyword searches in the most appropriate disciplinary database and look for journals that come up frequently in your result sets

Browsing of journal archives by subject area (e.g. Project Muse, JSTOR, Sage Journals Online, ScienceDirect (Elsevier), Wiley Online Library, Taylor and Francis)

Evaluating Journals

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – One of the Library’s subscribed databases; provides impact factor for mainstream academic/research journals.

Eigenfactor – www.eigenfactor.org

Scimago - http://www.scimagojr.com/

Google Scholar Citation metrics

Evaluating journals: Impact Factor

In the early 1960’s, the Institute for Scientific Information (eventually acquired by Thomson Reuters) developed metrics for ranking most highly cited journals

Their measure is known as the Impact factor

Explanation of the metrics: http://bit.ly/nt0glO

Evaluating journals: Impact Factor

# of citations to articles in journal x during year# of articles published in journal x in past two years

1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time.

Evaluating Journals: Eigenfactor

www.eigenfactor.org

If a researcher were to go to the library and pick up a random journal article and then randomly follow a cited reference in that article, how much of the time would they be going to X journal. That’s X journal’s eigenfactor.

Evaluating Journals: Scimago

Developed by the major STM publisher Elsevier from analytics harvested from Elsevier’s Scopus database

http://www.scimagojr.com/

A measure of both times cited and prestige of journals from which the citations come.

What to do when no journal-level metrics?

The hail mary pass:

Is the journal at least listed in Ulrich’s?

Is it indexed in disciplinary databases ?

Open Access – things to know

Definition:“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.”

From Peter Suber’s A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

Budapest Open Access Initiative

"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users toread, download, copy, distribute, print, search, orlink to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

(February 14, 2002)

OA benefits for authors

Numerous studies have found that open access availability increases number of downloads and citations

Citations occur more quickly than with a traditional publication cycle

Increasingly the expectation of grant funders

Open access - colors

Gold OA -

Authors publish in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website..

(Hybrid open access journals provide Gold OA only for those individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay an OA publishing fee.) Examples of OA publishers are BioMedCentral and the Public Library of Science

Open Access – Gold

Various business models

Most famous is “author pays”

Gold OA – thoughfully choose

At the very least the publisher should be a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. oaspa.org

Consider comments on Jeffrey Beall’s site ‘Scholarly Open Access: Critical Analysis of Scholarly Open-Access Publishing”aka “Beall’s list”

A very useful assessment list from the Gavia Librariablog -http://bit.ly/INSTH3Elements to consider: Communications practices; publisher's stable of publications; production values; people: editors, editorial boards, authors; business model

Green OA

Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article for free public use in their institutional repository (e.g. PDXScholar), in a central repository (such as PubMed Central), or on some other OA website.

Open Access - Green

Open Access – Green

What is deposited is the peer-reviewed postprint –either the author's refereed, revised final draft or the publisher's version of record (if allowed by publisher).

For institutions which have adopted mandates, frequently the requirement for deposit is this author’s final version

Your rights as an author

Make copies

Distribute

Make derivative works

Public performance/public display

Retaining your rights

READ the Copyright Transfer Agreement!!!!

A very different CTA

ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT

1. In consideration of the publication of your Article and subject to the provisions of the accompanying publishing agreement information form, you assign to us with full title guarantee all rights of copyright and related rights in your Article. So that there is no doubt, this assignment includes the assignment of the rights (i) to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Article worldwide in all forms, formats and media now known or as developed in the future, including print, electronic and digital forms, (ii) to translate the Article into other languages, createadaptations, summaries or extracts of the Article or other derivative works based on the Article and all provisions elaborated in 1(i) above shall apply in these respects, and (iii) to sub-license all such rights to others.

Another copyright agreement

I/We hereby assign world-wide copyright of the Manuscript named above (the Work) in all forms of media, whether now known or hereafter developed, to the publisher, xxxxx. I/We understand that xxxxx will act on my/our behalf to publish, reproduce, distribute and transmit the Work and will authorise other reputable third parties (such as document delivery services) to do the same, ensuring access to and maximum dissemination of the Work.

This assignment of copyright to xxxxx is done so on the understanding that permission from xxxxx is not required for me/us to reproduce, republish or distribute copies of the Work in whole or in part. I/We will ensure that all such copies carry a notice of copyright ownership and reference to the original publication. I/We will not deposit the final version of the Work into a subject or institutional repository until the Work has been published by Emerald either online or in print.

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine

http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

Step 1: Sign your publisher’s copyright transfer or publication agreement when you submit your final manuscript for publication with the following statement written above your signature: “subject to attached amendment”

Step 2: Attach the amendment you generate, with the information filled in and your signature on the bottom.

Step 3: Send both to publisher.

Step 4: Print out and extra copy of the addendum

Step 5: Keep all correspondence with the editor and publisher