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Increase Your Research Impact: Open Access PublishingMelanee Vicedo and John JuricekCenter for Excellence in Research WorkshopMarch 7, 2019
Share Three words you think of when you hear open access?
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.
Suber, P. (2004). A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access. Retrieved from https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
Learning outcomes Describe open access publishing and its various models Locate open access journals and other publications in your field Critically assess journals and identify where to publish
USC open access journals
OA booksEquity, Growth and Community by Manuel Pastor and Chris Benner
Price to access research
Source: LJ Periodicals Price Survey 2018
Consistent rise in journal prices
Annual increase range within 5% - 6%
Highest prices in science
Who benefits from Open Access?
Scholars in universities
Industry, business, arts and scholarship beyond the university
Public
Libraries, K-12, educators
Publishers
Adapted from: http://libraryguides.fullerton.edu/open-access/overview
Who has access now?
Scholars in universities
Industry, business, arts and scholarship beyond the university
Public
Libraries, K-12, educators
Publishers
OA journals
journals.plos.org/plosntdshybridpedagogy.org bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com
Types of Open AccessGREEN GOLD HYBRID
• Self-archiving • Published articles or
final manuscript is archived by researcher in online repository before, after or concurrent to publication
• Access may be delayed (embargo)
• Article is immediately provided in open access mode by the publisher
• Author, funder or sponsoring organization pays the associated costs, not the readers.
• Combine OA articles with traditionally published articles in one journal
• Fulfill funder requirements while publishing in non-open access journal
• Libraries must still pay for subscriptions
• Authors must pay APCs
Article Processing fee (APC) Fee charged upon acceptance of an article for publication Often paid by author’s funder or employer Some publishers allow for institutional accounts Fee covers cost of production Can range from $50 - $5200 (Elsevier – Cell)
Example of APC
Research impact ofpaywalled versus open access papers
Archambault, É., Côté, G., Struck, B., & Voorons, M. (2016). Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers.
OA and citations
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.
OA articles receive 18% more citations than average
Bronze – articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, w/out explicit open license
OA mandates
Many funders or sponsoring institutions require that articles or research be made available to the public Public access can be provided through an institutional
repository, digital archive or published in an OA journal Access can be Green, Gold or Hybrid
OA mandates From CER website:
OA mandates - trends EU’s “Horizon 2020” €80 billion research initiative Explicitly supports OA requirements “Plan S” will require OA for all publicly funded research
OA mandates – where to find?
http://roarmap.eprints.org/
OA mandates – where to find?
Where to publish? How to find OA journals? Numerous resources can help you: Locate and evaluate open access journals Identify high quality journals Avoid low quality journals
Many of these steps are the same you would use for a conventional, “non-open” journal
Where to publish?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
Where to publish? “Think Check Submit” website can help you evaluate journals Supported by scholarly societies and organizations
https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
Hands-on Find a journal in your subject area in DOAJ.
Hands-on Example of DOAJ Journal information page
Where to publish? – Positive Indicators Scope of the journal is well-defined and clearly stated
Journal’s primary audience is researchers/practitioners
Editor, editorial board are recognized experts in the field
Journal is affiliated with or sponsored by an established scholarly society or academic institution
Articles are within the scope of the journal and meet the standards of the discipline
Any fees or charges for publishing in the journal are easily found on the journal web site and clearly explained
Articles have DOIs (Digital Object Identifier, e.g., doi:10.1111/j.1742-9544.2011.00054.x)
Journal clearly indicates rights for use and re-use of content at article level (e.g., Creative Commons CC BY license)
Journal has an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number, e.g., 1234-5678)
Publisher is a member of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Journal is listed in UlrichsWeb, Global Serials Directory or the Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal is included in subject databases and/or indexes
Source: https://www.gvsu.edu/library/sc/open-access-journal-quality-indicators-5.htm#journal-models
Where to publish? – Negative Indicators Journal web site is difficult to locate or identify Publisher “About” information is absent on the journal’s web site Publisher direct marketing (i.e., spamming) or other advertising is obtrusive Instructions to authors information is not available Information on peer review and copyright is absent or unclear on the journal web site Journal scope statement is absent or extremely vague No information is provided about the publisher, or the information provided does not clearly indicate a
relationship to a mission to disseminate research content Repeat lead authors in same issue Publisher has a negative reputation (e.g., documented examples in Chronicle of Higher Education, list-
servs, etc.)
Source: https://www.gvsu.edu/library/sc/open-access-journal-quality-indicators-5.htm#journal-models
Where to publish? – Evaluating journals American Library Association has an excellent guide:
https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/evaluating
Finding and evaluating journals Two powerful library tools that can help
Demo – finding and evaluating journals
Scopus Large abstract and
citation database Multi-disciplinary Filter by OA
Access database through libraries.usc.edu
ScopusSources =
Publications (journals)
Search by:Subject area
TitlePublisher
ISSN
Narrow results by OA
Demo – finding and evaluating journals
Results of a search for Open Access journals in the area of Education & Educational Research
Extensive information is available for select journals
Recap: Learning outcomes Describe open access publishing and its various models Locate open access journals and other publications in your field Critically assess journals and identify where to publish
Questions?Melanee [email protected], Social Work & Education Library Services
John [email protected] Dean for Collections
Open access guide: libguides.usc.edu/openaccess